Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Plot & Excerpts
There is, just to focus on one prominent example, the instrumental film score. And from early on, filmmakers and others have recognized a kinship in Aphex Twin’s music and used it as a kind of readymade score. What distinguishes Selected Ambient Works Volume II in regard to other film music is how it slips easily from background to foreground, depending on the context. If ambient music was intended, from its origin, as functional music, then what more self-evident function is there than for the tracks to accompany images in motion—not to mention stories and objects and, in the realm of choreography, the agile human form on an otherwise barren stage? Among the earlier uses of music from Selected Ambient Works Volume II as backing sound was by Chris Morris, the British comedy figure. Comedy may be a weak term for the mix of discomfort and hijinks in Morris’ work. The track “Grass” appears in a video skit titled “Murder Girl,” in which a pre-teen, foul-mouthed and cold-hearted, helps a man dispose of a body.
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