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Porn Orchestra: why must XXX soundtracks suck?

Xeni Jardin at 9:51 pm Mon, Feb 3, 2003

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PornOrchestra is a Bay Area-based music collective formed to "radically reinterpret" the soundtracks of pornographic film:
"This complicated genre has taken its share of scorn: from adult film producers who refuse to pay it any mind to legions of consumers who instinctively snap the sound off after pressing Play."
radiofreeblogistan's Christian Crumlish recently published an interview with one of the musicians, Shannon Mariemont. Excerpt:
"Then I thought I would change the world one porn video at a time by renting a title, overdubbing with my original soundtrack, then returning the video to the store shelf....What if orchestras were the engine of expression in pornography?...One of the participating musicians told me for him this project is 'an experiment in subverting the commercial element of the original to present the inner world.' Another mused that it could just be 'really hot, or really evil, or both and sick, or maybe a little beautiful.'"
Update: And if you like this, you'll love Fluffertrax.

Link to interview, Discuss

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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