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>murkie writes: >> >>i agree wholeheartedly about reich's compositional superiority to glass >>(yawn). > >Another vote for Reich over Glass. I find Glass horribly repetitive >(not in a good way). To me, all his pieces "sound the same", in the >sense of using the same sort of harmonic movement. I just can't >listen to it anymore. > Just yesterday I pulled out "Music for 18 Musicians", which I hadn't heard in at least 6-7 years. I was surprised at how current it sounded, and at how "electronic" some of the textures were. There was one point that sounded all the world like a LFO-modulated analog filter. > >Maybe one day I'll find an appropriate Reich piece, and make a tape of >Koyanisquatsi (sp?) with it dubbed in. ;-) Reminds me of a 20th Century music class I took. As a final project, one student compared/contrasted the use of Phillip Glass's music in Koyaanisquatsi with Ligeti and Penderecki's in 2001. He used the scene from 2001 where the astronaut is traveling into the monolith, with lots of psychedic animation, accompanied, I believe, by a piece from Ligeti. At the end of the presentation, he showed segments where he had swapped the music, using Ligeti's under a Koyaanisquatsi segment, and Glass's under the segment so badly described above. It was pretty startling. Koyaanisquatsi, which I had always hated, became much more exciting, with the arythmic music bringing out the irregular tempos of the filmmaking and editing. The 2001 segment, which is pretty striking usually, looked pretty silly, the visual effects looking pretty dated. It proved a pretty interesting point about how the music can affect our perception of visuals ________________________________________________________ Dave Trenkel, NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: improv@peak.org self promotional web-site: http://www.peak.org/~improv/ "A squid eating dough in a polyethelene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?" -Captain Beefheart ________________________________________________________