Alloy Orchestra

Alloy Orchestra

musical ensemble

The Alloy Orchestra was a musical ensemble based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It performed its own accompaniments to silent films of the classic movie era on an unusual collection of found objects, homemade instruments, accordion, clarinet, musical saw, and a sampling synthesizer, the group scored and performed with 40 feature-length silent films or collections of shorts. The group is often credited with having helped revitalize the art of silent film accompaniment.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 2 films — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
Arbuckle & Keaton. Vol. 1 Alloy Orchestra 2:05:00 16mm Color
Teinosuke Kinugasa's A page of madness ; Henwar Rodakiewicz's Portrait of a young man Kinugasa Productions 2:04:00 16mm B&W sound