Two Thousand Won. 8)

It really is too bad that there isn't really a large monolith deposited in the moon, or that we aren't currently riding personal spacecraft to the moon and back to play golf.  I mean- who doesn't want to go play golf by a screaming monolith where there is 20 some percent of normal gravity there to slow the ball down once you've hit it.  Tiger Woods be afraid.  We are on the moon destroying your long shots.

But more to the point.  The Ligety piece that was placed in the moon scene was probably my favorite.  I could not imagine someone trying to mimic that piece and come anywhere close to the affect that it gives the scene.  I really would like to see the score for the piece, but I think in respect to the movie, the score really isn't all too important- UNLESS- it was performed again for the movie (not just the pre-recording that was available to Kubrick during the direction.)

I also like that it is not necessarily diagetic or non-diagetic since we don't know the exact auditory reference from which it is coming from.  Although we could postulate that since there is no atmosphere that there is no sound- thus non-diagetic.  BUT- if it happened to be some other wavelike force propagating from the monolith- then it could perhaps be diagetic since the high frequency squeal affects the people nearby and there is still no atmosphere to allow 'sound' to occur.  Very interesting.  So in this case- the sound is traveling perhaps by some other medium- electromagnetic waves or some other form of radiation.  Perhaps by dark matter or some other not-yet-discovered force.