i found a missing jigsaw piece today. have been listening to biosphere's part of the "man with a movie camera" score for years, but now i got my hands on the part by mental overdrive! its awesome and can be downloaded from bandcamp. here is the story behind the score:
in 1996, the tromsø international film festival (tiff) commissioned mental overdrive and biosphere to compose an original soundtrack for the russian silent movie "man with a movie camera" by director dziga vertov. the duo split the work between them by selecting alternating scenes throughout the film, in order to make the 1 hour and 8 minute soundtrack as varied as possible. the first screening with this new score performed live took place in tromsø in january 1996, and then a series of concerts/screenings followed at selected festivals in norway and france. biosphere released his pieces of the soundtrack as part the 2001 version of his "substrata" album, but the mental overdrive body of work has not yet been available - until now.
knowing that geir jenssen composed the first track, it should be possible to merge this two parts together and get the original score! well that was the easy part, the hard part is to make a time machine so we can catch the 1996 live show...
enjoy! <3