Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence... The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic. Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott's The Prayer [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI
First time hearing The Prayer, wow.
Just threw on my headphones and listened to it 5 times.
The Philip Glass Mishima string quartets by the Smith Quartet are pretty nice if you havent heard them. From the soundstrack to a film about Mishima, who was also being discussed on HN the other week String Quartet No.3: "Mishima": "Blood Oath" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXf77yY8qVg String Quartet No.3: "Mishima": "1957: Award Montage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJE7I8GfOaY
>Yes, after Einstein on the Beach I went back to driving a New York cab. I didn’t mind that. It was interesting work. I didn’t have an agent. I ran all the business side of it and the box office myself. I enjoyed it. Interesting, I had no idea.
He also worked as a plumber. > Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. “I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo,” he says. “While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing her…
File under art imitates life: the episode of Portlandia where Fred and Carrie hire Aimee Mann and Sarah McLachlan as house cleaners
Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence... The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic. Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott's The Prayer [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI
This happens to me on HN very often. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I sometimes feel we are all in a big machine-learning experiment :)
I discovered Philip Glass' music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven't seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it's weird.
I remember the name Philip Glass only due to watching the movie "Hamburger Hill", which started with an opening theme [1] that seemed so unusual that I looked up the composer on wikipdia.
>I’ve written 26 operas, 20 ballets, I don’t know how many film scores. I write theatre music. I write concert and symphonies too. I’m working on a new film score right now.
By "concert," I presume he meant "concerti." And indeed among my favorite pieces by him is his little-aclaimed first violin concerto.
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Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence... The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic. Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott's The Prayer [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI
This happens to me on HN very often. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I sometimes feel we are all in a big machine-learning experiment :)
I most certainly am spoiling it. This new gestalt AI overlord is going to swear how like one uses punctuation. It and I will be the best of friends.
Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence... The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic. Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott's The Prayer [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI
This happens to me on HN very often. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I sometimes feel we are all in a big machine-learning experiment :)
(I realise you're joking, but...) it's most likely a form of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. In this case, of course the is not an everyday topic on HN, but we all have enough of these running concurrently in our lives that sooner or later, they coincide with HN. And due to the perceived, impossibly low odds, people tend to really focus on it when it happens.
>Yes, after Einstein on the Beach I went back to driving a New York cab. I didn’t mind that. It was interesting work. I didn’t have an agent. I ran all the business side of it and the box office myself. I enjoyed it. Interesting, I had no idea.
I first herd Einstein on the Beach after a particularly manic period in undergrad. My advisor wasn't familiar with it, and I may have spooked her a bit try to explain it. I think to this day its great background music for programming work, but to me more because it can illicit that sense of young focus and drive that I find increasingly fleeting. Perhaps not unlike how music can "wake up" dementia patients. It elicit…
The Philip Glass Mishima string quartets by the Smith Quartet are pretty nice if you havent heard them. From the soundstrack to a film about Mishima, who was also being discussed on HN the other week String Quartet No.3: "Mishima": "Blood Oath" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXf77yY8qVg String Quartet No.3: "Mishima": "1957: Award Montage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJE7I8GfOaY
"Opening" & "Closing" are my favorite on that OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txoqe611j-o&list=PLHgMKCkVO8... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLLB0elriL0
Indeed, here is the Smith Quartet performance of 'Closing' from Mishima