field notes / Hollywood Minimalism from Nyman, Glass
Continuing to add archival pieces to the site. Just uploaded two brief reviews of movie scores:
Michael Nyman’s The Piano (1993)
Philip Glass’s The Hours (2002)
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[ January 23, 2010 / bookmark ]
[ January 17, 2010 / bookmark ]
field notes / Tangents: Oscarless Eno, New Autechre, Symphonic Nortec
Been awhile since the most recent Disquiet.com overview of notable stories elsewhere on the web. He’s a quick rundown, to bridge the gap from 2009 to 2010:
● Why Brian Eno’s score to Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is reportedly not eligible for an Oscar (thewrap.com, via moviescoremagazine.com).
● Thanks to Google Translate, an interview with composer [...]
[ January 1, 2010 / bookmark ]
field notes / Top 10 Posts & Searches from December
The Top 10 posts of December (out of a total of 40 posts on Disquiet.com) included all three “best of 2009″ entries: (1)
the 10 best iPhone/iPod Touch music/sound apps, (2) the 10 best free “netreleases,” and (3) the 10 best commercial ambient/electronic albums.
The latest (4) “MP3 Discussion Group,” on Monolake’s album Silence, made the [...]
[ December 12, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Quotes of the Week: Brian Eno’s Lovely Bones Score
The Lovely Bones marks not only director Peter Jackson’s return (to semi-realistic film-making, following his Lord of the Rings blockbusters) but also that of musician Brian Eno. Lovely Bones is the first feature film since 2005’s The Jacket with a full, original Eno score. Here’s a survey of how various film critics reacted to it:
A.O. [...]
[ September 19, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Quote of the Week: Do Electric Cars Snore?
This is an engineer at Nissan talking about adding noise to silent cars:
“We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to make it beautiful and futuristic.”
The engineer, Toshiyuki Tabata, was interviewed at bloomberg.com on the subject of the Nissan Leaf, an electric car so quiet [...]
[ August 11, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Tangents: Prefuse 73 on Classical, Rhys Chatham on 200 Guitars, RjDj on Tour …
Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere:
● Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) on Electronica’s Classical Under-girding (newmusicbox.org): Lengthy interview with Guillermo Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73, on, among other things, the influence of abstract contemporary classical music on his electronica: "It's just me being really nerdy and listening to these tape records, these weird [...]
[ July 18, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Quote of the Week: Country in Space
From a Guardian (UK) and New Scientist interview with Brian Eno on the occasion of a new arrangement of his Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, by composer Jun Lee, to be performed on July 20 and 21 at the Science Museum in London, by the ensemble Icebreaker with pedal steel guitar player BJ Cole:
[Q:] Why is [...]