I didn't post for a month while in Europe because my computer died, but I did spend some time thinking about the show, especially the music. In every piece I have done, the sound track has come first, and drives the images and movement.
I love buying singles from iTunes rather than albums because there are usually only a couple of songs per album I really like. As I get older, I like to be surprised, and favor unusual sounds, exotic, original and exciting compositions more and more. But may be because my attention span is getting shorter, I find that even great songs are often too long, and that out of a 5 minutes song I like, I only REALLY like about a minute or so. Sometimes it's in the beginning, sometimes in the middle, sometimes at the end. It doesn't seem to matter whether the piece is classical, pop, jazz, or whatever, it usually seems too long...
I would like the score for the show to be relentlessly exciting, original, unusual, surprising, harmonious but sometimes dissonant. I want to hear unexpected sounds and rythm changes, strange instruments, and unusual combinations of instruments, voices and sounds. Etherial counter tenor and booming bass voices, musical saw and bowed double bass, huge bass drums and pan flutes, jamaican steel drums and tubas...
Ideally of course, the score would be completely original.
I love buying singles from iTunes rather than albums because there are usually only a couple of songs per album I really like. As I get older, I like to be surprised, and favor unusual sounds, exotic, original and exciting compositions more and more. But may be because my attention span is getting shorter, I find that even great songs are often too long, and that out of a 5 minutes song I like, I only REALLY like about a minute or so. Sometimes it's in the beginning, sometimes in the middle, sometimes at the end. It doesn't seem to matter whether the piece is classical, pop, jazz, or whatever, it usually seems too long...
I would like the score for the show to be relentlessly exciting, original, unusual, surprising, harmonious but sometimes dissonant. I want to hear unexpected sounds and rythm changes, strange instruments, and unusual combinations of instruments, voices and sounds. Etherial counter tenor and booming bass voices, musical saw and bowed double bass, huge bass drums and pan flutes, jamaican steel drums and tubas...
Ideally of course, the score would be completely original.
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