Soundtrack to "The Dreamtime" - a film by Ty Brown - composed and recorded by Robert Gilmore (1983)

Soundtrack to "The Dreamtime" - a film by Ty Brown - composed and recorded by Robert Gilmore (1983)
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"The Dreamtime" - a film by Ty Brown
Written and Directed by Ty Brown
Primary narrator - Ty Brown
Music and soundtrack - Robert GIlmore
Audio recording and mixing - Robert GIlmore
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• Harmony vocals in the "City of Memory" section - Fran Carbonaro
• Lyrics to the song "The Dreamtime" - Seth Kaplan
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• Thank you to Will Johnson, for providing me access to the 4-track reel to reel studio in Ives Hall at SSU, where I recorded this soundtrack.
• Thank you also to Ilan Herman, for loaning me his Yamaha CS-50 synthesizer for this project.
• Special thanks to Seth Kaplan, for connecting Ty and myself for this project.
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"The Dreamtime" was a 16mm film, which utilized 2 projectors simultaneously projecting onto side by side screens. I created the soundtrack in binaural format, basically 2 monaural tracks, 1 on the optical track of each of the 2 projectors. These were then "wild synced" when the film was presented. In other words, the 2 projectors were started manually, as close as possible at the same time.
I timed and mapped out the audio for each track to work in tandem with the visuals showing on each projector, presuming they would be projected approximately in sync.

To my knowledge, the film was only shown once publicly. This was on its "opening night" on 5/10/1983, at Sonoma State University. I was living in SoCal at that time, and was unable to attend.

Later that year, I visited Ty at the SSU Library, which is where he worked for many years. He had arranged a special showing of the film in a room of the SSU library, where he, I and a group of his co-workers all watched the film, 3 times in succession by popular demand. We had talked about having it transferred to video, but didn't follow up at the time.

Note: It is currently not clear if the film itself has survived. I last spoke with Ty Brown in 1990, when I called and offered to have him show "The Dreamtime" film at Mills College in Oakland, CA, during the time I was a graduate student there. Ty declined this offer, citing verbal agreements he had made with those who provided some of the 1960s archival footage he used in the film (for example, large groups of "tribal" style dancers inside the Carousel Ballroom).
In recent years, I've been unable to locate Ty Brown.