Music and image.

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Mandryka

Very much enjoying Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi. Is there a more impressive example of the integration of music and image?

https://www.youtube.com/v/mUEOipHmBjY
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Cato

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Quote from: Mandryka on October 17, 2019, 02:17:46 AM
Very much enjoying Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi. Is there a more impressive example of the integration of music and image?

https://www.youtube.com/v/mUEOipHmBjY

I still recall catching by chance a chunk of this movie on a Friday night on PBS in the 1980's and wondering at it!

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey comes to mind.  Both the Johann Strauss Blue Danube Waltz sequence and the "Star Gate" sequence with Ligeti's Atmospheres.

e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/v/ou6JNQwPWE0&t=54s
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)


Mandryka

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https://www.youtube.com/v/AnDagpv4kUk&ab_channel=Jujyfruits


In Martin Arnold's Pièce Touchée the sound consists of the single drone-pulse, which at the first look seems to be completely disassociated with the trancelike visual beat, which clearly is being transformed in a dance-movement. Arnold uses a technique called brain-sync in Techno music: a visual stream with a similar density/beat probability is layered with an audio track, and our brain does the rest of the work: it progressively starts to synchronize both streams, increasing the intensity of both.

https://www.youtube.com/v/UCnph6CIz3A&ab_channel=Nebenan87

In Arnold's Passage à l'Acte he now focuses on the original sounds of the movie sample, including ambients as the closing of a door and the clatter of a spoon and the actors speech, deconstruction both by the single mean of looping, turning the individual events into beats and rhythms; basic musical structures like call and response are being introduced here.

https://www.youtube.com/v/GzP-L0akLEg&ab_channel=jmejij


In Alone: Life wastes Andy Hardy Arnold focuses on the notion of music, speech and singing become a central part of the soundtrack. This third film uncovers the strongly erotic subtext of the Hollywood original, deconstructing it in both a very humorous and simultaneously menacing way

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Mandryka

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Very much enjoying this improvisation by John Tilbury, Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjorgeengson. Sissel - she was Bjorgeengson's wife who had died a few weeks before the performance.



It is inspired by this picture by Poussin in London



Phocion has been executed and denied a proper funeral. His widow surreptitiously gathers his ashes.

I know the picture quite well. I've always had an ambivalent attitude towards Poussin because, while I recognise the beauty and balance of it, somehow what he did seems static, frozen, to me. However this music seems to me a sort of sublimation of that idea,  the music is rich and emotional, and still.
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André Le Nôtre

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Quote from: Mandryka on October 17, 2019, 02:17:46 AM
Very much enjoying Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi. Is there a more impressive example of the integration of music and image?

https://www.youtube.com/v/mUEOipHmBjY

Yes, 2001 A Space Odyssey--one of my favorite examples of this!

Also, this immersive Van Gogh video exhibit is extraordinary, breathtaking(!) if you ever get to see it. We saw it in Paris in 2019 and were going to try for Vancouver, BC a couple months ago, but, pandemic. The photos here and videos on YouTube do not do it justice. https://www.france.fr/en/happening-now-in-france/van-gogh-atelier-des-lumieres-paris

It is also currently in San Francisco: https://mercisf.com/2020/12/04/immersive-van-gogh-from-latelier-des-lumieres-paris-to-san-francisco/

Also, Scotland drone + Hans Zimmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb6WlQiaJeM&t=314s

Mandryka

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https://www.youtube.com/v/RbePJG2NWEU

Blood on the floor, Painting 1986, by Fausto Romatelli, is inspired by Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Self-Portrait.



It's strange how the gestures in the music seem to be twisted and violent, a sort of deformation,  like the paintings,
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pjme

Some examples are almost 100 years old. Still fascinating though...

https://www.youtube.com/v/oWa2iy-0TEQ

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZXrjrr6ifME

I doubt that this is the original score (inspite of hearing La création du monde)....?

https://www.youtube.com/v/6Xc4g00FFLk

Honegger's Pacific 231 - Jean Mitry film from 1949: https://youtu.be/qw79AZX5XgM

Mandryka

George Crumb's Metamorphoses is a series of piano pieces, each of which is associated with a picture in a famous museum. There's a recording by Marcantonio Barrone.

https://www.youtube.com/v/kayFJ2XyjzQ
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Mandryka

Quote from: Mandryka on March 21, 2021, 03:24:19 AM
Very much enjoying this improvisation by John Tilbury, Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjorgeengson. Sissel - she was Bjorgeengson's wife who had died a few weeks before the performance.



It is inspired by this picture by Poussin in London



Phocion has been executed and denied a proper funeral. His widow surreptitiously gathers his ashes.

I know the picture quite well. I've always had an ambivalent attitude towards Poussin because, while I recognise the beauty and balance of it, somehow what he did seems static, frozen, to me. However this music seems to me a sort of sublimation of that idea,  the music is rich and emotional, and still.

Back to this this evening. It is excellent.
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relm1

Michael Stearns made many films merging sound with images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKdP4HTZVJI