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Re: Vangelis has died

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Post by haspok »

My personal favourites would be the Bounty title track, which is incredible because it just tells the whole story musically in about 4 minutes!

And the title sequence of Antarctica (the Japanese movie from 1983), which nobody has ever seen, I mean the movie is good, even if a little strange, but the title... I cannot imagine what it would have been like watching it on the big screen and listening to it in a theatre... back in 1983.

Secret tip: you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/fNaV3CHCs6g

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

MrVandemar wrote: post #157
WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #116

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There is a story about how Ridley Scott wanted to use this specific piece and a couple more by Vangelis in Blade Runner, and Vangelis told him: why reuse my old pieces, I can make a new score for this film specifically. And so he did, in some short timeframe.

I think Scott did this to Jerry Goldsmith for ALIEN as well, except Jerry wasn't happy about reusing music.

Don’t you have to ask the composer for permi$$ion anyway? Or do things work differently in Hollywood?

Re: Vangelis has died

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Post by olvy0 »

Sad to hear, one of my favorite musicians as well. I've been listening to the Blade Runner OST on my commute for the last couple of years, and just humming it to myself today when I saw the news here.

Here's a very talented guy - Kebu - performing the Blade Runner end titles music live. Very impressive. Check out the other vids on his channel as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI65leWtd7c

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Post by jacquesm »

tzs wrote: post #123
motohagiography wrote: post #32

Imo, Vangelis brought the synthesizer from an experimental novelty to an instrument for composition. The two sounds I associate with him are the long brassy triangle with a steep envelope that we know from both Blade Runner and the accompaniment to the piano in the Chariots of Fire theme, and his effective use of chimes. I have tickets for Olafur Arnalds next week, and there is a younger generation of composers like…

How would you compare Vangelis and Isao Tomita? Tomita was marrying synth with classical at about the same time or even a little earlier, to widespread acclaim and success. A couple other names I think of when I think early serious synth work are Jean-Michel Jarre and Larry Fast. Where would you put them in synth history?

Dance of the firebird rendition by Tomita is well worth listening to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9Vp0Rp1Vw

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Post by 112233 »

Intermernet wrote: post #161
pjbk wrote: post #155

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CS80 indeed. There is an almost identical patch for the Arturia CS-80v if interested: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/10/19/free-arturia-c...

Much cheaper than getting an original CS80 ;-) The CS80 was decades ahead of it's time. I love playing with CS-80v, but I need a keyboard with polyphonic aftertouch to do it justice, and the Ensoniq models are now way too pricey. Wish I'd bought one 10 years ago when they were unpopular, available, weird and cheap.

launchpad pro? it’s small and quitet, too!

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Post by ygra »

pnemonic wrote: post #97
pmoriarty wrote: post #92

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"Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or write music." He seems to have had his own musical notation, of a sort. You can see him using it at the beginning of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1xJYCrKDU

I guess there is a point where convention just slows you down. I would say it is a hallmark of true genius.

I guess especially with synths you may also need to incorporate not just the notes, but also the synth settings. I'm not sure there's much support for that in traditional notation.

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Post by johnsanders »

Wistar wrote: post #132
johnsanders wrote: post #22

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And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney. Another legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lnwNIlJUo

When I was an online editor (video) in SF, I got to work with Hal Riney on several occasions. There was this joke among his agency staffers that, no matter what commercial he screened, if he hadn't voiced it himself, he always said (something like), "That's great. I'll re-voice it tomorrow."

I'm sure it was a different experience up close, but as far as I'm concerned from a distance, he could only elevate a voiceover track. He did Subway sandwiches for God's sake. "We aspire to know all our customers by name... or at least by sandwich." Or airport car rentals. "There are over a million miles of roads in Alamo territory. And only Alamo gives you all those miles for free."

Re: Vangelis has died

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Post by johnsanders »

Wistar wrote: post #132
johnsanders wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney. Another legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lnwNIlJUo

When I was an online editor (video) in SF, I got to work with Hal Riney on several occasions. There was this joke among his agency staffers that, no matter what commercial he screened, if he hadn't voiced it himself, he always said (something like), "That's great. I'll re-voice it tomorrow."

Aha... Here's one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpFWxKPOyQ I forgot the ending of those ads... always a variation on... 'Roads that run through America... to a place.. we call home."
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