John Corigliano – Altered States (1981)

Composer: John Corigliano

Tracklist

1. Main Title And First Hallucination (Ritual Sacrifice And Religious Memories) 04:43
2. Love Theme 03:39
3. Second Hallucination (Hinchi Mushroom Rite And Love Theme Trio) 05:15
4. First Transformation (Primordial Regression) 03:40
5. Primeval Landscape (In The Isolation Chamber) 02:18
6. Second Transformation (The Ape Man Sequence)

(Escape From The Laboratory, Stalking The Dogs And The Fight, The Zoo And FInal Hunt) 08:06
7. Religious Memories And Father's Death 02:07
8. The Laboratory Experiment: Jessup's Transformation,

Collapse Of The Laboratory, The Whirlpool And Journey To Another Dimension, Return To Reality 06:16
9. The Final Transformation 04:16

Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell

based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.
The film was adapted from Chayefsky's only novel, published in 1978, and is his final screenplay.
The film follows the experiments of a psycho-physiologist with drugs in a sensory-deprivation tank

and his visions that he believes are genetic memories.
Both the novel and the film are based in part on John C. Lilly's research conducted in isolation tanks 

under the influence of psychoactive drugs like mescaline, ketamine, and LSD.
Altered States marked the film debut of William Hurt and Drew Barrymore.
Chayefsky withdrew from the project after disputes with Russell and took his name off the credits, 

substituting "Sidney Aaron," his actual first and middle names.
The film score was composed by John Corigliano (with Christopher Keene conducting)

and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing.
John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of classical music.
His scores, numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, 

Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition, and an Oscar for his score for the film The Red Violin (1998).
He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University Of New York

and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School.

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