Library Composition

Train

Eduard Artemyev's cue for the trolley journey into the Zone in Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979), blending railroad noise with synthesizer drone.

The three men riding the handcar into the Zone in Tarkovsky's Stalker
The trolley-car sequence the cue accompanies.Source
Type
Composition
Creator
Eduard Artemyev
Year
1979
Subjects
Sound Time Space
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Composed for the single-take handcar journey carrying the Writer, the Professor, and the Stalker into the Zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), “Train” combines musicalized railroad noise with Eduard Artemyev’s synthesizer drone, extending the sequence’s near-infinite, hypnotic duration.