When we were in class and Milo was talking about how sound can alter your perception of time and place my mind immediately wandered to anime/80s dytopian movies and the more fiction/ escapist side of sound design.
THX 1138
When looking at this proto-star wars film by George Lucas that had a very acclectic soundtrack using nostalic and futuristic sounds, even though it was based in the future, including bits of jazz in somescenes and then ambient drone in another. This juxterpostion was said to allow the composer Lao Schifin to specifically cater each piece to each scene. However in a Soundtrack.Net article said
“While the vast array of music styles allows Schifrin to address each scene’s needs very specifically, what ultimately happens is that the film’s soundtrack as a whole feels incoherent. When one listens to the soundtrack in total, he or she will have no sense of the overall film. There are so many styles and moods present that the soundtrack has no unity.”
But in the contrary i feel that a jumbled mix of tastes and polarising sound is the soundscape of the future, that is polluted with so many ideas that live alongside one another simultaneously. It out of that polarity that we are unified by.