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"The Poet Acts" from The Hours, Philip Glass
A graphical interpretation of the filmscore "The Poet Acts" from the film The Hours.
The filmscore is heartbraking as the life itself. Simple facts expressed with beautiful melancholy. Addictive. Graphics and Video by Ritva Nybacka
Wikipedia: The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham.
The film's score by Philip Glass won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music .
published: 10 Mar 2010
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Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
This is the vinyl rip for Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
One of the most enticing and truly intoxicating pieces of recent years, Midori Takada's Through The Looking Glass is a very dreamlike journey in 4 chapters. Beyond its very impressive soundscapes and overall atmosphere, it's well known for its innovative recording techniques. Here's some information about how the tracks came to be:
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The title of the album, Through The Looking Glass, was adopted from Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland. In the logic of Lewis Carroll, who was also a mathematician, one can discern a word beyond personal expression that has no relation to personal sentiment of desire. Sound separates itself from personal expression and in sound itself lies the possibility of sub...
published: 12 Aug 2017
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Cream by David Firth
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The time has come for CREAM - the latest product that will fix your life. This is the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius, who after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world’s problems.
This launch is made possible by my lovely Patreon supporters:
https://www.patreon.com/davidfirth
Thanks to the super Patroids. You will see their names in the credits. Please jo...
published: 30 May 2017
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Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86
"Goggle Up! Science is about to happen...Share by Tweet: http://bit.ly/YAsk8M Facebook: http://bit.ly/PrinceRupert
READ THE ADDITIONAL INFO HERE! (Click "Show More"!)
Please help me justify putting this much time and effort into a video by clicking "LIKE" and SHARING this as much as possible. Click the following: Tweet: http://bit.ly/TweetRupert Facebook: http://bit.ly/PrinceRupert Please share with any science blogs or outlets you think would enjoy it.
Videos like this don't just happen. They require lots of time, and lots of favors from very smart and kind people willing to help me and you learn. PLEASE take a moment and read the following information and support those who supported me.
This is the camera we used for the ultra-high speed shots. It has the "FAST" option.
http...
published: 23 Mar 2013
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Devonté Hynes And Philip Glass Compare Notes
'When You Gonna Get A Real Job': Philip Glass And Devonté Hynes Compare Notes
by THOMAS HUIZENGA
At first glance, Devonté Hynes and Philip Glass might appear like musical opposites. Hynes, the 31-year-old British producer and songwriter who performs under the name Blood Orange, makes hit records with Solange and Carly Rae Jepson. Glass, the 80-year-old Baltimore-born New Yorker who writes operas and film scores, is one of classical music's legendary artists.
But walk into Hynes' third floor loft in New York's Chinatown and you'll find a photo of Glass on his piano. Hynes, it turns out, is a fan. He discovered Glass' music by chance as a London teenager, when he bought the 1982 album Glassworks on the strength of its crystalline cover image alone. What he heard after he brought it home t...
published: 21 Sep 2017
3:46
"The Poet Acts" from The Hours, Philip Glass
A graphical interpretation of the filmscore "The Poet Acts" from the film The Hours.
The filmscore is heartbraking as the life itself. Simple facts expressed w...
A graphical interpretation of the filmscore "The Poet Acts" from the film The Hours.
The filmscore is heartbraking as the life itself. Simple facts expressed with beautiful melancholy. Addictive. Graphics and Video by Ritva Nybacka
Wikipedia: The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham.
The film's score by Philip Glass won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music .
https://wn.com/The_Poet_Acts_From_The_Hours,_Philip_Glass
A graphical interpretation of the filmscore "The Poet Acts" from the film The Hours.
The filmscore is heartbraking as the life itself. Simple facts expressed with beautiful melancholy. Addictive. Graphics and Video by Ritva Nybacka
Wikipedia: The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham.
The film's score by Philip Glass won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music .
- published: 10 Mar 2010
- views: 22936
42:06
Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
This is the vinyl rip for Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
One of the most enticing and truly intoxicating pieces of recent years, Midori Takada's Thr...
This is the vinyl rip for Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
One of the most enticing and truly intoxicating pieces of recent years, Midori Takada's Through The Looking Glass is a very dreamlike journey in 4 chapters. Beyond its very impressive soundscapes and overall atmosphere, it's well known for its innovative recording techniques. Here's some information about how the tracks came to be:
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The title of the album, Through The Looking Glass, was adopted from Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland. In the logic of Lewis Carroll, who was also a mathematician, one can discern a word beyond personal expression that has no relation to personal sentiment of desire. Sound separates itself from personal expression and in sound itself lies the possibility of substance. Midori says: "Within the tracks, numbers are intertwined symbolically - they are fluid while the tempo is ever-changing. On the reverse side, all the melodies are overturned. Through this process, it is constructed and formulated into a system. As the structure of this music became more system-based, I tried to disengage it from any self-expression. That is why I named this album Through The Looking Glass. The reflection on the mirror seems to show something, but I did not want to indulge in that. I wanted rather to force discernment of my true self that was beyond the reflection."
The "different directions" she used to explore that concept are ingenious. On the first track, "Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream," she created a three-dimensional sound sculpture by carefully taking the distance between the microphone and each instrument into account. Takada says that she was trying to construct a perspective in sound." On "Crossing", Takada overdubbed an initial rhythm over a new rhythm, placing two performances that were still physically reverberating through the performer on top of one another, constructing a minimal, but heavy, percussive edifice. On the track "Trompe-l'oeil", Takada used offset rhythms to blur and expand that percussive resonance of the instruments, thickening the sound color. This track is also notable for the fact that Takada performed this composition using only a Cole bottle, bells, and a reed organ with a foot pedal! She describes the final track, "Catastrophe ε" as "an accelerando from start to finish, without allowing tempo and time to slip into one place". That Accelerando is thhe most aggressive progression on the album. As the tempo gradually increases, the piano and reed organ slowly build a wall of sound. The acceleration directs the listener's attention inward, towards the music itself, as opposed to its performance.
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I was very pleasantly surprised to find this little rarity on display on some shelf in a new nifty little boutique record store in my town, and picked it up right away as I was searching for it for quite a while. To me this is one of the most astounding, ground breaking records of our era. The history and the process of making this record and how carefully it was crafted (whether it's the philosophy of it or the fact that each instrument was layered infinitely to compensate any errors that could not be erased since it was recorded analogically) just add to the mix. If you will - give it a good listen with a good headset or system, in a dark room, and wait till the nearly Koyaanisquatsi-ish ending will make your heart pound with the force of a thousand suns.
Perfect for: M E D I T A T I O N
Format: LP
Please support the artists! If you dug it as much as I did when I first heard it on YouTube as well, please consider supporting the artist by getting it here: http://paltoflats.com/release/midori-takada-through-the-looking-glass
All materials presented on this channel are copyrighted by their respective copyright owners, and are subject to use for informational purposes only. If you want this removed, please contact me and I will remove it as soon as possible.
https://wn.com/Midori_Takada_Through_The_Looking_Glass
This is the vinyl rip for Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
One of the most enticing and truly intoxicating pieces of recent years, Midori Takada's Through The Looking Glass is a very dreamlike journey in 4 chapters. Beyond its very impressive soundscapes and overall atmosphere, it's well known for its innovative recording techniques. Here's some information about how the tracks came to be:
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The title of the album, Through The Looking Glass, was adopted from Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland. In the logic of Lewis Carroll, who was also a mathematician, one can discern a word beyond personal expression that has no relation to personal sentiment of desire. Sound separates itself from personal expression and in sound itself lies the possibility of substance. Midori says: "Within the tracks, numbers are intertwined symbolically - they are fluid while the tempo is ever-changing. On the reverse side, all the melodies are overturned. Through this process, it is constructed and formulated into a system. As the structure of this music became more system-based, I tried to disengage it from any self-expression. That is why I named this album Through The Looking Glass. The reflection on the mirror seems to show something, but I did not want to indulge in that. I wanted rather to force discernment of my true self that was beyond the reflection."
The "different directions" she used to explore that concept are ingenious. On the first track, "Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream," she created a three-dimensional sound sculpture by carefully taking the distance between the microphone and each instrument into account. Takada says that she was trying to construct a perspective in sound." On "Crossing", Takada overdubbed an initial rhythm over a new rhythm, placing two performances that were still physically reverberating through the performer on top of one another, constructing a minimal, but heavy, percussive edifice. On the track "Trompe-l'oeil", Takada used offset rhythms to blur and expand that percussive resonance of the instruments, thickening the sound color. This track is also notable for the fact that Takada performed this composition using only a Cole bottle, bells, and a reed organ with a foot pedal! She describes the final track, "Catastrophe ε" as "an accelerando from start to finish, without allowing tempo and time to slip into one place". That Accelerando is thhe most aggressive progression on the album. As the tempo gradually increases, the piano and reed organ slowly build a wall of sound. The acceleration directs the listener's attention inward, towards the music itself, as opposed to its performance.
------------------------------
I was very pleasantly surprised to find this little rarity on display on some shelf in a new nifty little boutique record store in my town, and picked it up right away as I was searching for it for quite a while. To me this is one of the most astounding, ground breaking records of our era. The history and the process of making this record and how carefully it was crafted (whether it's the philosophy of it or the fact that each instrument was layered infinitely to compensate any errors that could not be erased since it was recorded analogically) just add to the mix. If you will - give it a good listen with a good headset or system, in a dark room, and wait till the nearly Koyaanisquatsi-ish ending will make your heart pound with the force of a thousand suns.
Perfect for: M E D I T A T I O N
Format: LP
Please support the artists! If you dug it as much as I did when I first heard it on YouTube as well, please consider supporting the artist by getting it here: http://paltoflats.com/release/midori-takada-through-the-looking-glass
All materials presented on this channel are copyrighted by their respective copyright owners, and are subject to use for informational purposes only. If you want this removed, please contact me and I will remove it as soon as possible.
- published: 12 Aug 2017
- views: 349496
12:22
Cream by David Firth
If you're new to my stuff then SUBSCRIBE http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=doki66
MERCH https://saladfingersstore.com (WE HAVE PLUSH TOYS!!)
P...
If you're new to my stuff then SUBSCRIBE http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=doki66
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The time has come for CREAM - the latest product that will fix your life. This is the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius, who after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world’s problems.
This launch is made possible by my lovely Patreon supporters:
https://www.patreon.com/davidfirth
Thanks to the super Patroids. You will see their names in the credits. Please join us for more wonderful content.
OFFICIAL SALAD FINGERS STORE: https://saladfingers.shop/
https://www.patreon.com/davidfirth
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INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/davidfirth66/
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/DFsaladfingers/
The time has come for CREAM - the latest product that will fix your life. This is the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius, who after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world’s problems.
This launch is made possible by my lovely Patreon supporters:
https://www.patreon.com/davidfirth
Thanks to the super Patroids. You will see their names in the credits. Please join us for more wonderful content.
OFFICIAL SALAD FINGERS STORE: https://saladfingers.shop/
https://www.patreon.com/davidfirth
https://twitter.com/DAVID_FIRTH
http://www.fat-pie.com
- published: 30 May 2017
- views: 17340804
6:39
Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86
"Goggle Up! Science is about to happen...Share by Tweet: http://bit.ly/YAsk8M Facebook: http://bit.ly/PrinceRupert
READ THE ADDITIONAL INFO HERE! (Click "Show...
"Goggle Up! Science is about to happen...Share by Tweet: http://bit.ly/YAsk8M Facebook: http://bit.ly/PrinceRupert
READ THE ADDITIONAL INFO HERE! (Click "Show More"!)
Please help me justify putting this much time and effort into a video by clicking "LIKE" and SHARING this as much as possible. Click the following: Tweet: http://bit.ly/TweetRupert Facebook: http://bit.ly/PrinceRupert Please share with any science blogs or outlets you think would enjoy it.
Videos like this don't just happen. They require lots of time, and lots of favors from very smart and kind people willing to help me and you learn. PLEASE take a moment and read the following information and support those who supported me.
This is the camera we used for the ultra-high speed shots. It has the "FAST" option.
http://www.visionresearch.com/v16102/
You absolutely have to check out the stuff Cal Makes. We're just goofing off in this video, but the guy is some type of glass wizard genius. It would make me happy if you bought something from him and he felt like the audience appreciated all the time he donated to this video. He basically gave me 2 entire nights of his entire shop.
http://orbixhotglass.com/
I feel like we're friends at this point, and he is open to the idea of doing more videos in the future and teach me more about what he knows about glass. Let's make it worth his time.
I'm a HUGE FAN of the song Gordon wrote for this video. His landlord would really appreciated if you downloaded it so he could make rent this month.
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/track/manta
It looks like he's assembling a new album that I may like more than Mammals:
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/album/hydrophile-in-progress
Show him some love.
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This video involved about 2 months of research, and me reaching out to several individuals. I would like to thank everyone who took time out of their schedule to contribute to my wacky research. A big thanks to the following people:
My wife and kids. I'm sorry this took so long and I wasn't the kind of active father I want to be during the 5 weeks it took to make this.
Dr. Martyn Poliakoff for getting me access to documents which details experiments on the Prince Rupert's Drop by the Royal Society
http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/41/1/1.full.pdf+html (behind a pay wall)
Being able to calculate the failure front velocity of a Prince Rupert's drop is a pretty big deal. For years this was a scientific mystery. High speed camera technology is only recently fast enough to provide data like this. Thanks to Vision Research for letting me use the V1610 to try to unravel this mystery for the public in general.
Rob Kuefner for reaching out to me and offering to convert certain equations into LaTeX format for me.
Dr. Jeff Evans from UAH. A friend and neighbor who just happens to have a PhD and be an expert in fracture mechanics. http://bit.ly/YLezDA Thank you for helping me by pointing me in the right direction in the early stages of my research. It's time we hangout again.
Brian: thanks for letting me use your green screen and telling me about Orbix in the first place. I stayed up there til about 1 or 2 am two nights in a row acting stupid in front of of the camera all alone. Now that I look back at that footage without the context of this video, it's all very strange.
Thanks to Loïc Samuel for taking time to make the custom TNT Degradation graphic!
P.S. There was some old guy walking around the track at the park when I was filming me jumping on the bridge railing. I'm pretty sure you kept walking until I was done just to make sure you wouldn't have to take me to the hospital if I broke my leg. I'll never meet you again, but I'm grateful for this kind gesture you didn't know I noticed.
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(If I did this right these should be working Amazon affiliate links to purchase the stuff I like to use. When people purchase from these links it will support Smarter Every Day.)
Things I use and like:
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Tweet ideas to me @SmarterYouTube
Instead of saving for my kids' college, I make videos using the money I would have saved.
The thought is it will help educate the world as a whole, and one day generate enough revenue to pay for their education. Until then if you appreciate what you've learned in this video and the effort that went in to it, please SHARE THE VIDEO!
https://wn.com/Mystery_Of_Prince_Rupert's_Drop_At_130,000_Fps_Smarter_Every_Day_86
"Goggle Up! Science is about to happen...Share by Tweet: http://bit.ly/YAsk8M Facebook: http://bit.ly/PrinceRupert
READ THE ADDITIONAL INFO HERE! (Click "Show More"!)
Please help me justify putting this much time and effort into a video by clicking "LIKE" and SHARING this as much as possible. Click the following: Tweet: http://bit.ly/TweetRupert Facebook: http://bit.ly/PrinceRupert Please share with any science blogs or outlets you think would enjoy it.
Videos like this don't just happen. They require lots of time, and lots of favors from very smart and kind people willing to help me and you learn. PLEASE take a moment and read the following information and support those who supported me.
This is the camera we used for the ultra-high speed shots. It has the "FAST" option.
http://www.visionresearch.com/v16102/
You absolutely have to check out the stuff Cal Makes. We're just goofing off in this video, but the guy is some type of glass wizard genius. It would make me happy if you bought something from him and he felt like the audience appreciated all the time he donated to this video. He basically gave me 2 entire nights of his entire shop.
http://orbixhotglass.com/
I feel like we're friends at this point, and he is open to the idea of doing more videos in the future and teach me more about what he knows about glass. Let's make it worth his time.
I'm a HUGE FAN of the song Gordon wrote for this video. His landlord would really appreciated if you downloaded it so he could make rent this month.
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/track/manta
It looks like he's assembling a new album that I may like more than Mammals:
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/album/hydrophile-in-progress
Show him some love.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This video involved about 2 months of research, and me reaching out to several individuals. I would like to thank everyone who took time out of their schedule to contribute to my wacky research. A big thanks to the following people:
My wife and kids. I'm sorry this took so long and I wasn't the kind of active father I want to be during the 5 weeks it took to make this.
Dr. Martyn Poliakoff for getting me access to documents which details experiments on the Prince Rupert's Drop by the Royal Society
http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/41/1/1.full.pdf+html (behind a pay wall)
Being able to calculate the failure front velocity of a Prince Rupert's drop is a pretty big deal. For years this was a scientific mystery. High speed camera technology is only recently fast enough to provide data like this. Thanks to Vision Research for letting me use the V1610 to try to unravel this mystery for the public in general.
Rob Kuefner for reaching out to me and offering to convert certain equations into LaTeX format for me.
Dr. Jeff Evans from UAH. A friend and neighbor who just happens to have a PhD and be an expert in fracture mechanics. http://bit.ly/YLezDA Thank you for helping me by pointing me in the right direction in the early stages of my research. It's time we hangout again.
Brian: thanks for letting me use your green screen and telling me about Orbix in the first place. I stayed up there til about 1 or 2 am two nights in a row acting stupid in front of of the camera all alone. Now that I look back at that footage without the context of this video, it's all very strange.
Thanks to Loïc Samuel for taking time to make the custom TNT Degradation graphic!
P.S. There was some old guy walking around the track at the park when I was filming me jumping on the bridge railing. I'm pretty sure you kept walking until I was done just to make sure you wouldn't have to take me to the hospital if I broke my leg. I'll never meet you again, but I'm grateful for this kind gesture you didn't know I noticed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GET STUFF SECTION:
(If I did this right these should be working Amazon affiliate links to purchase the stuff I like to use. When people purchase from these links it will support Smarter Every Day.)
Things I use and like:
📷Camera I use : https://amzn.to/2VSiruw
Favorite Lens: https://amzn.to/2KPDQ1a
On-camera Mic: https://amzn.to/3aVVbjz
Lav Mic: https://amzn.to/3aRek6r
Hot shoe mount for Lav Receiver: https://amzn.to/35m6uAo
My Tripod: https://amzn.to/2Yl6RtJ
Favorite SD Card: https://amzn.to/2KQ3Edz
🥽Goggle Up! : https://amzn.to/2zG754g
Also, if you’re interested in a Smarter Every Day shirt etc. they’re really soft and you can get there here: https://www.smartereveryday.com/store
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tweet ideas to me @SmarterYouTube
Instead of saving for my kids' college, I make videos using the money I would have saved.
The thought is it will help educate the world as a whole, and one day generate enough revenue to pay for their education. Until then if you appreciate what you've learned in this video and the effort that went in to it, please SHARE THE VIDEO!
- published: 23 Mar 2013
- views: 13491148
6:23
Devonté Hynes And Philip Glass Compare Notes
'When You Gonna Get A Real Job': Philip Glass And Devonté Hynes Compare Notes
by THOMAS HUIZENGA
At first glance, Devonté Hynes and Philip Glass might appear ...
'When You Gonna Get A Real Job': Philip Glass And Devonté Hynes Compare Notes
by THOMAS HUIZENGA
At first glance, Devonté Hynes and Philip Glass might appear like musical opposites. Hynes, the 31-year-old British producer and songwriter who performs under the name Blood Orange, makes hit records with Solange and Carly Rae Jepson. Glass, the 80-year-old Baltimore-born New Yorker who writes operas and film scores, is one of classical music's legendary artists.
But walk into Hynes' third floor loft in New York's Chinatown and you'll find a photo of Glass on his piano. Hynes, it turns out, is a fan. He discovered Glass' music by chance as a London teenager, when he bought the 1982 album Glassworks on the strength of its crystalline cover image alone. What he heard after he brought it home transfixed him. Today, he says Glass' influence "seeps" into his music — the interlocking marimba parts in "Best to You" or the feather light ostinato that ignites "Better Than Me." Last year, he surprised a few ears when he played excerpts from Glass' solo piano suite Metamorphosis during a live session on SiriusXM.
This spring, Hynes invited Glass to his apartment where they sat at a piano, compared chords and traded stories. Ninety minutes later, their wide ranging conversation had touched on the pulse of New York City, the pains of striking out on your own as a musician, what role the arts play in society today and Hamilton. Plus about a hundred other ideas.
Perhaps the most potent virtue Hynes and Glass share is an instinctive ear for collaboration. Glass has worked with everyone from Ravi Shankar and Paul Simon to dozens of filmmakers, dancers, poets and visual artists. Hynes moves adroitly, too. These days he pairs up with Sky Ferreira, FKA Twigs, Haim and ballet dancer Maria Kochetkova, but in his teens he joined a dance-punk band named Test Icicles, then moved on to the quirky folk-pop of Lightspeed Champion.
Maybe it's that willingness to let something unknown percolate into a new idea. And maybe that's why these two musicians, some 50 years apart in age, decided to meet on a cloudy April afternoon in Chinatown to let yet another intriguing collaboration blossom.
https://wn.com/Devonté_Hynes_And_Philip_Glass_Compare_Notes
'When You Gonna Get A Real Job': Philip Glass And Devonté Hynes Compare Notes
by THOMAS HUIZENGA
At first glance, Devonté Hynes and Philip Glass might appear like musical opposites. Hynes, the 31-year-old British producer and songwriter who performs under the name Blood Orange, makes hit records with Solange and Carly Rae Jepson. Glass, the 80-year-old Baltimore-born New Yorker who writes operas and film scores, is one of classical music's legendary artists.
But walk into Hynes' third floor loft in New York's Chinatown and you'll find a photo of Glass on his piano. Hynes, it turns out, is a fan. He discovered Glass' music by chance as a London teenager, when he bought the 1982 album Glassworks on the strength of its crystalline cover image alone. What he heard after he brought it home transfixed him. Today, he says Glass' influence "seeps" into his music — the interlocking marimba parts in "Best to You" or the feather light ostinato that ignites "Better Than Me." Last year, he surprised a few ears when he played excerpts from Glass' solo piano suite Metamorphosis during a live session on SiriusXM.
This spring, Hynes invited Glass to his apartment where they sat at a piano, compared chords and traded stories. Ninety minutes later, their wide ranging conversation had touched on the pulse of New York City, the pains of striking out on your own as a musician, what role the arts play in society today and Hamilton. Plus about a hundred other ideas.
Perhaps the most potent virtue Hynes and Glass share is an instinctive ear for collaboration. Glass has worked with everyone from Ravi Shankar and Paul Simon to dozens of filmmakers, dancers, poets and visual artists. Hynes moves adroitly, too. These days he pairs up with Sky Ferreira, FKA Twigs, Haim and ballet dancer Maria Kochetkova, but in his teens he joined a dance-punk band named Test Icicles, then moved on to the quirky folk-pop of Lightspeed Champion.
Maybe it's that willingness to let something unknown percolate into a new idea. And maybe that's why these two musicians, some 50 years apart in age, decided to meet on a cloudy April afternoon in Chinatown to let yet another intriguing collaboration blossom.
- published: 21 Sep 2017
- views: 176692