Philip Glass

want to get into this guys music a bit more

recommendations?

i already have heroes symphony, low symphony , and passages

all sound pretty cool, glass is pretty fantastic

glassworks

mo

saw this at discogs and i was intrigued

thanks mos

Glassworks seconded.

download the the Qatsi trilogy

  snibbajibs said:

download the the Qatsi trilogy

yes! his soundtrack to The Hours is real good too..

music in 12 parts

bear in mind it's 3.5 hours long with no pauses, and rarely changes

glassworks i recommend as well,

the original Candyman soundtrack is excellent also, but its out of print and sometimes hard to find on soulseek.

Its probably the scariest/creepiest thing Glass have ever composed.

the qatsi trilogy is damn good, but unfortunately i saw Truman Show before i saw the 2nd one in the trilogy, so now forever the score for that film is ruined for me due to the Truman Show (they used almost half of the POWASQATSI score in truman show).

I'm also a huge fan of "the photographer"

the soundtrack for "The fog of war" is also good, but probably because the movie was so emotional for me.

akhenaten. again, ~3 hours, but fantastic. some wonderful boy soprano stuff (technically written for castrati but they don't exist any more)

mishima soundtrack

glassworks

the photographer

hydrogen jukebox

1000 airplanes on the roof kinda sucks a bit, but it's his most electronic album... piles of fm synths on it

it's pretty hard to go wrong with phil. also get some steve reich if you've never heard him...

saw the qatsi live a few months ago, was very good, the third night had a celloist who was loving playing her cello a little bit too much.....

did anyone else here see Truman Show before POWASQATSI? because i did and it ruined my appreciation for the POWASQATSI score forever. Not that truman show was horrible, but it wasnt what i would consider a good film.

The Hours

didnt he do violin phase?

thats good, koyanisqaatsi

gentlemen prefer arpeggios.

There's no wrong place to start with Philip. You'll find your way through all of his phase one way or another :)

But yeah one of his compilation like Glassworks is excellent.

  tht! tne said:

didnt he do violin phase?

steve reich

Einstein on the Beach (HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE HA HEE )

oh, the Kundun soundtrack is really good

i've seen truman show, never saw the other thing that music is featured in. i always liked the score to that movie though, especially at the end when he's in a boat and it crashes into the wall of the dome he lives in.

yeah the kundun soundtrack is excellent

glass kinda turned into a pussy as regards minimalism in about 1988 or so though. i much prefer his earlier stuff

philip glass wails, verily. i recommend:

etudes for piano

hours OST

qatsi's OST

i have a piece he did with the Kronos Quartet...though I thinkhes done a lot with them? good fun stuff...but i tried to get into a lot of his other works and didnt really care for them.

btw, listen to his piano pieces...i cant remember the name of the one im thinking of...but im almost positive AFX based Polynomial-C off it.

  Matt Lesko said:

btw, listen to his piano pieces...i cant remember the name of the one im thinking of...but im almost positive AFX based Polynomial-C off it.

'solo piano' is great. i think the piece you are thinking of is 'mad rush' off that

what does everyone see in philip glass? it never ceases to amaze me how he gets away with writing music that would fail at gcse composition level

  cakeface said:

what does everyone see in philip glass? it never ceases to amaze me how he gets away with writing music that would fail at gcse composition level

music isnt about fitting requirements so you don't "fail"

he makes music that I think is very emotional, and captivating.

is it philip glass that you don't like, or minimalism?

  cakeface said:

what does everyone see in philip glass? it never ceases to amaze me how he gets away with writing music that would fail at gcse composition level

it amazes me that some people still believe music is entirely scientific and zero percent emotional....go back to listening to people tell you what good music is.