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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by hnlmorg »

dwd wrote: post #59
larrywright wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dave Grohl is another one that comes to mind.

Also Kurt Cobain, as noted by Rick Beato: "It doesn't matter if people know what they are doing, if they can just do it intuitively" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZnWc-sFd0

John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, of Sex Pistols (amongst others) often said his Punk movement was as much a protest against the Prog Rock musical elite as it was a movement against other norms. He would say that you didn’t even need to learn to play an instrument to be able to make music with it.

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Post by cineticdaffodil »

ilamont wrote: post #26

Well, besides the language and the typeface, the other element of this sequence at the beginning of Blade Runner that makes it so special is the accompanying score by Vangelis, and the sound effects that start with twinkling computer notes and gradually build in volume to explosions and the whoosh of futuristic vehicles. It effectively immerses viewers into this incredible world and story.

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Post by inigyou »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #122

Actual title is "The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing" - and I'm pretty sure the hn submission said that yesterday. I prefer the original, and I don't understand the reason for bowdlerising it.

Welcome to corporate. Swearing will not be tolerated.

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Post by navane »

brador wrote: post #101
bombcar wrote: post #84

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It's one of those "lies programmers believe" kind of things - we like to think that there is one definitive "notation" of a piece of music - but even when there IS accurate sheet music, it only tells part of the story. Music before recordings was much closer to jam-band style than people realize; and in the Middle Ages you could hear substantial differences in the same song just by traveling a few tens of miles.

Not knowing the alphabet of music lets the mind make its own more efficient abstractions.

Just like not knowing how to read and write does to your ability to speech.

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Post by JetSetIlly »

manytimesaway wrote: post #100
psyclobe wrote: post #55

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As good as that track is its literally his only good stuff. Try as I might, and as eager as I was to like him his library of music just falls flat.

As we say in another language, "you should probably get your ears cleaned". Besides the Blade Runner & Chariots of Fire soundtracks (two masterpieces of albums, which is two more than 90% of the world), his repertoire is filled with instant electronic classics, such as Earth, Albedo 0.39, Spiral, and l'Apocalypse des Animaux. I'm not even mentioning Aphrodite's Child.

The albums he did with Jon Anderson are worth a listen too I think.

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Post by looperhacks »

While yes, the opening and title cards are very good, I can't get over the (imho) pretty "meh" layout of the crawling text. The right margin is very jagged (especially the "Replicant"), even when it doesn't appear to be necessary (notice that in "Replicants were used Off-world as\n slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and\n colonization of other planets.", the "slave" could've fit into the first line and "colonization" could've been hyphenated). If necessary, they also could've changed some of the wording for better typography. Also, the last two sentences weirdly seem to have different left margins.

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Post by Fluorescence »

rdiddly wrote: post #47
ColdStream wrote: post #33

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It was only a few months back that I found out that Vangelis couldn't read or write music notation. He would just improv play and record on a tape, recording additional parts and mixing as needed. If he needed to have other musicians involved, then he would hire someone to listen back and write down the notation. Considering he recorded something like 35 albums, he was doing something right.

You might be surprised at how many famous professional musicians don't read music notation. Outside of the classical world, session work, and jazz fake-books, it's far from de rigueur .

I have never been able to follow a score despite music lessons and playing in an orchestra (I faked it).

I find such a striking difference between notation that just swims in front of my eyes:

https://musescore.com/user/14835636/scores/6186772

And a bar graph which I can hear when muted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

I have a similar issue with algebraic notation, the signifier and signified never connects. So much misery spending hours with a mass of punctuated greek in a cs paper to discover it describes a triangle. The decryption is not even sticky, I look away for a second and it immediately re-encrypts back to soup.

I don't understand why since programming languages having always felt natural and something I learned as a pre-teen just by being left alone with a BBC micro and a "type in a game" book.

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by TiredOfLife »

manytimesaway wrote: post #100
psyclobe wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As good as that track is its literally his only good stuff. Try as I might, and as eager as I was to like him his library of music just falls flat.

As we say in another language, "you should probably get your ears cleaned". Besides the Blade Runner & Chariots of Fire soundtracks (two masterpieces of albums, which is two more than 90% of the world), his repertoire is filled with instant electronic classics, such as Earth, Albedo 0.39, Spiral, and l'Apocalypse des Animaux. I'm not even mentioning Aphrodite's Child.

For me first experience of Aphrodite's Child was even better for I knew of Demis Roussos only by his later work
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