Would you like to support the mission of Open Culture? Please consider making a donation to our site. The vocals on “The Great Gig” were performed by an unknown young songwriter and session singer named Clare Torry. Munch’s horrific Great Scream in Nature is combined in the video with Floyd’s otherworldly “The Great Gig in the Sky,” one of the signature pieces from the band’s 1973 masterpiece, Dark Side of the Moon. shivering with anxiety - I felt the Great Scream in Nature Still, deathly tired - over the blue-blackįjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire

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Munch painted the first of four versions of The Scream in 1893. In this short video, Romanian animator Sebastian Cosor brings together two haunting works from different times and different media: The Scream, by Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944), and “The Great Gig in the Sky,” by the British rock band Pink Floyd.

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