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tjr225 4y ago
andrei_says_ 4y ago
The minimalism is precisely why I like him.
- indigodaddy 4y ago
  Perhaps he’s an acquired taste. Although I fell for Glass immediately as an adult. As soon as I heard a few notes I was drawn to the music.
  - bb88 4y ago
    I think the Tales From the Loop soundtrack is easy to get into. Yes there is repetition, but there's also motion as the phrases change to convey different ideas.
    - indigodaddy 4y ago
      Yes, I enjoyed the music in that series. VERY reminiscent of Truman soundtrack, but of course, he borrows and does variations upon his own earlier works all the time. Truman is very reminiscent of Mishima imo also.
  - FpUser 4y ago
    Exactly my experience as well
  - mlinksva 4y ago
    From pretty much the first time I'd heard/heard of Glass (conceivably Koyannisqatsi) I found him kind of boring, and didn't listen carefully, except for the Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass album, because I love KQ. Apparently dismissing Glass is a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizP7IFyWig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizP7IFyWig Anyway, after many years I've listened carefully and love it all. I hope to experience (and will gladly fly to) a live performance of Einstein on the Beach someday. Like the infinitely more sophisticated person in the linked video, I was wrong about Glass.
    - indigodaddy 4y ago
      Pretty much same for me. Listened very casually/cursorily/briefly in my late teens, tried a few times again in my 20s and 30s, and found it kind of boring and unexceptional. Then in my early 40s I dug in a bit and really started actually listening and exploring. And oh man what a wide universe of musical discovery burst forth for me after that. And I couldn’t believe that I didn’t put in a little effort earlier..
    - justincormack 4y ago
      I managed to see Einstein on the Beach in London a while back, recommended! It is performed maybe once a decade or something somewhere…
  - andrei_says_ 4y ago
    I discovered him through the soundtrack for the American remake of Breathless with Richard Gere. His music makes the film. I recently listened of Philip Glass: Piano Works performed by Vikingur Olafsson and that left me speechless. Softer, more dynamic, more soulful, less mechanical. Highly recommended. https://open.spotify.com/track/5q7DgKLBQ54FXKAfGxNMGs?si=zwtxiTD-REW2Erg4ozO_mA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4WMVFHCPiUEurlsWDF1Deq https://open.spotify.com/track/5q7DgKLBQ54FXKAfGxNMGs?si=zwt...
thewebcount 4y ago
Yeah, I really do not like Philip Glass’s music, but I actually love the soundtrack to this movie. I heard it one day on the radio (local classical station was playing it) a few years after the movie came out and didn’t know what it was. I was really surprised it was by him. But the rest of his stuff just doesn’t work for me at all.
- indigodaddy 4y ago
  Funnily, Koyaanisqatsi ranks on the lower end for me for Glass works (no pun intended). I’m a huge Glass fan(atic perhaps), and much prefer stuff like Truman Sleeps, Mishima, Jane soundtrack, Glassworks, Symphony #4 Heroes (Glass/Bowie/Eno), Mad Rush, etc etc. His music composed specifically for the piano is gorgeous. Amy Dickson’s saxophone interpretations of his violin concertos are absolutely riveting, example: https://youtu.be/ZdUWPA_AX6o https://youtu.be/ZdUWPA_AX6o
  - carewell 4y ago
    It's interesting that there are two fan groups of Glass' music with almost no overlap. Qatsi trilogy is also on the lower end for me, but my favorite pieces are his more experimental works like Einstein on the Beach. Most of his Hollywood soundtracks are way more conventional.
  - Zababa 4y ago
    The soundtrack from Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is absolutely incredible, just like the movie as a whole. I've been looking for a way to get prints of some parts of the movie, the last blu ray from Criterion has a small booklet with a few pictures from the sets, but they're very small.
    - carewell 4y ago
      AI upscaling works incredibly well in my experience.
      - Zababa 4y ago
cycrutchfield 4y ago
Philistine.
bouvin 4y ago
I adore Philip Glass, and it was through Koyaanisqatsi that I discovered him back when the movie was released. I have been fortunate enough to see PG & the PG ensemble perform Music in 12 Parts (I heard the piece twice that day: once traveling to the concert hall, and once live) as well as attend an evening of piano works by him performed by him and a series of other pianists. On my bucket list is seeing Einstein on the Beach live – easily my favourite opera. I have been collecting his music since the early nineties, and much prefer his earlier works – his later symphonies, etc, while fine, do not, to my ear, retain the stark beauty of his younger days.
DonHopkins 4y ago
I wish Phillip Glass and Don Martin collaborated on an A Cappella album. https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html "DIKKA-DIKKA DIKKA-DAK DIKDIKDIK DAKKA DAKKA DIKKA DIKKA DIKKA DAGAK DAK DIKKADAK DIKKA DIKKA DAKDAKDAK DAKKA DAKKA DEEP DABWAK DOOTBWEET DAKKITYDAK OONT GIKKADIK DIK DOKKA DAK DEEP" -Casey Working Laboriously On The Computer "GLISH GLUTCH ARRAGGH YAK BLAM BLAM AWK GAROOF GAROOF WEEOOOEEEOOO BLOOM BLOOM BLAM BLAM YAGGAK WHAP WHAP ROWR GROWR RIP MANGLE GURGLE GLUK" -Domestic Mayhem and Carnage Involving a Small Child, His Mother, a Dog and a Police Officer

tjr225 4y ago

andrei_says_ 4y ago

The minimalism is precisely why I like him.

indigodaddy 4y ago
Perhaps he’s an acquired taste. Although I fell for Glass immediately as an adult. As soon as I heard a few notes I was drawn to the music.
- bb88 4y ago
  I think the Tales From the Loop soundtrack is easy to get into. Yes there is repetition, but there's also motion as the phrases change to convey different ideas.
  - indigodaddy 4y ago
    Yes, I enjoyed the music in that series. VERY reminiscent of Truman soundtrack, but of course, he borrows and does variations upon his own earlier works all the time. Truman is very reminiscent of Mishima imo also.
- FpUser 4y ago
  Exactly my experience as well
- mlinksva 4y ago
  From pretty much the first time I'd heard/heard of Glass (conceivably Koyannisqatsi) I found him kind of boring, and didn't listen carefully, except for the Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass album, because I love KQ. Apparently dismissing Glass is a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizP7IFyWig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizP7IFyWig Anyway, after many years I've listened carefully and love it all. I hope to experience (and will gladly fly to) a live performance of Einstein on the Beach someday. Like the infinitely more sophisticated person in the linked video, I was wrong about Glass.
  - indigodaddy 4y ago
    Pretty much same for me. Listened very casually/cursorily/briefly in my late teens, tried a few times again in my 20s and 30s, and found it kind of boring and unexceptional. Then in my early 40s I dug in a bit and really started actually listening and exploring. And oh man what a wide universe of musical discovery burst forth for me after that. And I couldn’t believe that I didn’t put in a little effort earlier..
  - justincormack 4y ago
    I managed to see Einstein on the Beach in London a while back, recommended! It is performed maybe once a decade or something somewhere…
- andrei_says_ 4y ago
  I discovered him through the soundtrack for the American remake of Breathless with Richard Gere. His music makes the film. I recently listened of Philip Glass: Piano Works performed by Vikingur Olafsson and that left me speechless. Softer, more dynamic, more soulful, less mechanical. Highly recommended. https://open.spotify.com/track/5q7DgKLBQ54FXKAfGxNMGs?si=zwtxiTD-REW2Erg4ozO_mA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4WMVFHCPiUEurlsWDF1Deq https://open.spotify.com/track/5q7DgKLBQ54FXKAfGxNMGs?si=zwt...

thewebcount 4y ago

Yeah, I really do not like Philip Glass’s music, but I actually love the soundtrack to this movie. I heard it one day on the radio (local classical station was playing it) a few years after the movie came out and didn’t know what it was. I was really surprised it was by him. But the rest of his stuff just doesn’t work for me at all.

indigodaddy 4y ago
Funnily, Koyaanisqatsi ranks on the lower end for me for Glass works (no pun intended). I’m a huge Glass fan(atic perhaps), and much prefer stuff like Truman Sleeps, Mishima, Jane soundtrack, Glassworks, Symphony #4 Heroes (Glass/Bowie/Eno), Mad Rush, etc etc. His music composed specifically for the piano is gorgeous. Amy Dickson’s saxophone interpretations of his violin concertos are absolutely riveting, example: https://youtu.be/ZdUWPA_AX6o https://youtu.be/ZdUWPA_AX6o
- carewell 4y ago
  It's interesting that there are two fan groups of Glass' music with almost no overlap. Qatsi trilogy is also on the lower end for me, but my favorite pieces are his more experimental works like Einstein on the Beach. Most of his Hollywood soundtracks are way more conventional.
- Zababa 4y ago
  The soundtrack from Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is absolutely incredible, just like the movie as a whole. I've been looking for a way to get prints of some parts of the movie, the last blu ray from Criterion has a small booklet with a few pictures from the sets, but they're very small.
  - carewell 4y ago
    AI upscaling works incredibly well in my experience.
    - Zababa 4y ago

cycrutchfield 4y ago

Philistine.

bouvin 4y ago

I adore Philip Glass, and it was through Koyaanisqatsi that I discovered him back when the movie was released. I have been fortunate enough to see PG & the PG ensemble perform Music in 12 Parts (I heard the piece twice that day: once traveling to the concert hall, and once live) as well as attend an evening of piano works by him performed by him and a series of other pianists. On my bucket list is seeing Einstein on the Beach live – easily my favourite opera. I have been collecting his music since the early nineties, and much prefer his earlier works – his later symphonies, etc, while fine, do not, to my ear, retain the stark beauty of his younger days.

DonHopkins 4y ago

I wish Phillip Glass and Don Martin collaborated on an A Cappella album. https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html "DIKKA-DIKKA DIKKA-DAK DIKDIKDIK DAKKA DAKKA DIKKA DIKKA DIKKA DAGAK DAK DIKKADAK DIKKA DIKKA DAKDAKDAK DAKKA DAKKA DEEP DABWAK DOOTBWEET DAKKITYDAK OONT GIKKADIK DIK DOKKA DAK DEEP" -Casey Working Laboriously On The Computer "GLISH GLUTCH ARRAGGH YAK BLAM BLAM AWK GAROOF GAROOF WEEOOOEEEOOO BLOOM BLOOM BLAM BLAM YAGGAK WHAP WHAP ROWR GROWR RIP MANGLE GURGLE GLUK" -Domestic Mayhem and Carnage Involving a Small Child, His Mother, a Dog and a Police Officer