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Guardian.co.uk‘s Naomi Alderman notes that the annual Ivor Novello Awards will include this year, for the first time, one for “best original videogame score”: Game music has long been the venue for “earworms” — pieces of music that get stuck in your head. Anyone who ever played Tetris on a Gameboy will have the Soviet-style [...]
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)
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 [...]
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 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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]