"Shot in the Back of the Head," music by Moby, movie by David Lynch

The music artist Moby has teamed up with filmmaker David Lynch on the new song "Shot in the Back of the Head."

I think it's a good pairing. Lynch's movies ("Eraserhead," "Blue Velvet") and TV work ("Twin Peaks") tend to have minimal story lines. The films are more about feeling, about atmosphere. Moby's music is similar. The individual works aren't songs in the traditional sense so much as they are mood pieces. Like Lynch, Moby works in the realm of atmospherics.

Lynch's images here produce feelings, perhaps of dread or fear. Moby's music in this piece also induces similar feelings. Together, do they have an even greater effect on a person? I think it works out that way in this case. The music and the fleeting black and white graphics meld together and support one another. Yet, each works without the other. You could watch the video silently and it would still be an effective piece of entertainment. You could listen to "Shot in the Back of the Head" and still find the sounds moving you without seeing the video.