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In this first of two episodes devoted to the music of the weird, Phil and JF discuss two works that have bowled them over: the second movement of Ligeti\'s Musica Ricercata, used to powerful effect in Stanley Kubrick\'s Eyes Wide Shut, and the opening music to Cronenberg\'s film Naked Lunch, composed by Howard Shore and featuring the inimitable stylings of Ornette Coleman. After teasing out the intrinsic weirdness of music in general, the dialogue soars over a strange country rife with shadows, mad geniuses, and skittering insects. And to top it all off, Phil breaks out the grand piano.

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REFERENCES

Ligeti, Musica Ricercata, 2nd movement
\\nHoward Shore and Ornette Coleman, opening music for David Cronenberg\'s Naked Lunch

Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
\\nSuzanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key
\\nHenri Bergson, Creative Evolution
\\nStanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
\\nViktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique"
\\nStanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
\\nHitchcock, Psycho
\\nVulture, "The Evolution of the Movie Trailer" by Granger Willson
\\nOfficial Trailer for The Shining_vs teaser for _2012
\\nJan Harlan (director), Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
\\nDavid Cronenberg, Crash
\\nWilliam S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
\\nGilles Deleuze & F\\xe9lix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
\\nGunther Schuller\'s interview with Ethan Iverson
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 25: David Cronenberg\'s Naked Lunch
\\nDeleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus