page_title: Normal Love
section_title: Soundtrack
hierarchical_section_title: Normal Love / Production / Soundtrack
caption_attribution_description: Tony Conrad at the Celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study (University at Buffalo)
context_page_description: Normal Love is an experimental film project by American director Jack Smith. It shows the adventures of an ensemble of glamorously dressed monsters. Smith filmed the project in 1963 and began screening the work in pieces in 1964.
  Although Normal Love was never completed, works by Ron Rice, Andy Warhol, and Tony Conrad grew out of it. After Smith's death, the project was released as a two-hour presentation of his footage.
context_section_description: Smith did not record sync sound for Normal Love and enlisted Tony Conrad to produce the soundtrack. Conrad had made the soundtrack for Flaming Creatures and appears in Normal Love as the mummy. Smith's cue sheet for Conrad specifies African drums and joyful classical music in the swing scene, as well as the sound of insects, birds, and frogs for the swamp and party scenes. Smith also planned to incorporate popular music into the soundtrack; his notes specify Hoagy Carmichael's "The Monkey Song" and Patsy Cline's "Walkin' After Midnight", and Amália Rodrigues. In October 1963, he posted a notice in The Village Voice announcing a competition. He called for contestants to submit recordings in the style of Maria Montez saying, "Every time I look into the mirror I could scream because I am so beautiful."
  On set, Conrad met actress Beverly Grant, who played the Cobra Woman. The two entered a relationship, which Smith regarded as a betrayal against him. Smith and Conrad fell out, and the soundtrack was not created. Angus MacLise and Walter De Maria have performed live accompaniment when sequences from the film were screened.
caption: Tony Conrad worked on the film's unfinished soundtrack.
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