Comments on: Yo dawg, I heard you like Vangelis and Microneurosurgery

Yo dawg, I heard you like Vangelis and Microneurosurgery

40 Watt — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:42:25 -0800

In 1998 Greek neurosurgeon Dr. Stergios Tegos published a documentary of his work in the field of microneurosurgery. Nearly 11 hours across three VHS tapes and accompanied by a 253 page book, Tegos' film Μικρονευροχειρουργική με βίντεοταινίες, or "Microneurosurgery With Video Tapes", shows- in graphic detail-educational footage of brain surgery techniques over 35 separate surgical cases. Sensing that 10 hours of spinal lesion surgery footage was maybe a bit much even for seasoned doctors, Tegos decided to set the film to music and asked his longtime friend Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου- better known to the world as Vangelis- if he would create a soundtrack.

Never available to non-professionals, the film essentially disappeared into obscurity and was essentially lost until Vangelis Collector's Don Fennimore found a copy while traveling in Greece and wrote about it at his site. As with many Vangelis soundtracks, the complete audio has never been made commercially available. A bootleg CD/DVD combo was made in 2018, and several homemade edited versions of the soundtrack exist, with the narration carefully edited out to create an almost 9 hour ambient/electronic masterpiece. Dr. Tegos' website seems to no longer exist, and the publisher no longer has copies of his videos for sale, but you can see the complete set of films on his Vimeo (warning: graphic footage of neurosurgery) ^{Title swiped from a (previous mention on the blue, buried in a deleted post from 2012, apologies Damienmce)

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By: Sebmojo

Sebmojo — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:57:37 -0800

this is delightful, I'm not going to watch the video but i'll put on the soundcloud and imagine tiny little instruments digging around in my brain instead

By: JustSayNoDawg

JustSayNoDawg — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:58:44 -0800

You have really got to be dedicated to your art to stay awake thru that. It's pretty much an aural anaesthetic and some guy going on about something (I dunno - it's all ... I'm not even going to finish that one). But yeah, it's pretty damn relaxing.

By: mightshould

mightshould — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:59:31 -0800

This is a fascinating post. Thanks for sharing it.

By: Artifice_Eternity

Artifice_Eternity — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:38:40 -0800

Amazing! Who knew there was a lost Vangelis soundtrack floating around out there? Looking forward to diving in.

By: latkes

latkes — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:55:42 -0800

THIS IS WHY METAFILTER

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:10:00 -0800

Perhaps Emerson, Lake, and Palmer might have been a better choice.

By: chavenet

chavenet — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:43:35 -0800

This is like Koyaanisqatsi, but in your head

By: meehawl

meehawl — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:00:04 -0800

Is there nothing Vangelis can't do?