Every night you die, every morning you are reborn, this is why you are sad in the evening. So every morning thats given us is a beautiful hope. Philip Glass matches a great mix of sadness and hope.
Wonderful tribute and interpretation of Philip Glass's composition! I love the combination with the images a lot too. I think you captured the spirit of his beautiful piece of music very well. He definitely is a master, but I think Glass can learn something from you in the way you approach things by heart and know that imperfections are part of the cosmic 'opening up' :). Thanks! I featured it on my channel today. greetings from Holland, Door
I am sure you are well aware that you have the rhythm wrong... but if it is a purposeful mistake of you trying to interpret it... i would like to note that the low notes feels like the beating of a heart. Which is actually a quite beautiful effect and a wonderful interpretation.
I don't know if the records show it, but in the past few days, ever since I discovered this work, I must have listened to it dozens of times, often for an hour or more in one sitting, alternating it from time to time with CubusDK's (very different) interpretation:
Your work is, along with the other one, my absolute favourite interpretation of this magnificent work.
I only wish it were longer!
And the visuals are compelling - and strangely touching - as well.
This is pretty cool... what is it exactly? Just a whole bunch of dots?? I don't quite get it.. I like the music.. Sorry, I'm not quite gettin it here.
Beautiful interpretation of one of my favorite Glass pieces. Just faithful enough, with lots of quirks and imperfections that only add to the piece. Love the twangs and buzzes! It sounds like a trio!
You actually did an amazing job with this interpretation. The music is indeed to often played agressively by other musicians. In spite of a few rythm mistakes I think you got a pretty good idea here about Glass music.
Wow, what a heartfelt interpretation of "Opening ", loving that special flavour.. cant really pin point what it is, and true, its sad it is not the full version ... Gypsy Love, pax Et Lux, Gypsy
This is a beautiful interpretation, quite close to how I like to play the piece, and beautifully augmented by the tone of the pianoforte - would love to hear the whole piece!
@radiofriendly Ah, I really like the hesitation. It adds a little something. I've been humming along with it on repeat for, like, 10 minutes. If I come up with a tune, I'll be sure to post a response.
@radiofriendly I think this is the most beautiful interpretation of this composition ever.... Absolutely fantastic.... I feel like the performer performs on the piano which is on the bottom of the ocean.... Very touching, indeed... I have been enjoying this performance immensely.....
Your musicality in this piece is awesome. I love the "question mark" you leave the listener on at the piece's close. The timbre is perfect for this piece. Simply amazing. Thanks for the video.
Its beautiful, my favorite interpretation. Empathetically played, sympathetic to the melody and the off kilter rhythm. Recording sounds great. I love the movement noise behind the piano, gives it a real sense of intimacy. Lovely string buzz in places too, shame its not the full version though.
@lowgoat Thanks so much! If you'd really like the full version I could send you a CD in the mail...with about 19 tracks of other (more crazy) things...and some sim. For $10. (send me a message)
Hello Everyone! If You like this kind of music please check my chanel at youtube, Im a beginner composer who uploaded some of my compositions for piano and I'm interested in your opinion about my music Thank you:)
I believe its used to describe the fourth dimension. I once saw something like it before, the artist used these grids or cells, that sort of resemble cartesian coordinates to describe the flux of say a hypercube. If you notice although the white rings give the resemblance to a cube, the lines do not connect in such a way to make a cube. Thus you have a kind of movement that gives the impression of a 4D bulge in 3D space.
makes me think of a brownstone in new york city, whose wealthy inhabitant lost everything he owned. he returned years later to find only his piano in the empty house...
there's no sitar or other instruments. It's either a prepared piano or one that has natural warpage to cause it to buzz. It's pretty and enjoyable but not correctly played. The left hand part starts to lose the steady 8th note pattern and follow the triplets which kinda undos one of the main points of this composition.
"one of the main points of the composition" You mean there is more than one part to a Glass Komposition? That, sir, is a revelation...perhaps of the millenium...well, thusfar.
Man, there is quite a lot involved in creating a minimalist piece that's successful like this one. If I knew all the secrets I'd be writing stuff like this myself and getting famous.
The "secret" is Philip's heart, his soul. It's fully tuned to this kind of music.
Sure, you could try to compose something similar, but if it's not coming from the most deep and authentic place in your heart, it will be a mere imitation and it will not have the emotional impact of Philip's music.
@Dreammotive i was quite surprised upon watching the documentary film "glass: a portrait in 12 parts" that philip glass doesn't call himself a minimalist composer! he says that name was put upon him by others. hm...
@tigerfishgirl True. Beethoven didnt call himself a classical composer. Or Chopin a romantic. But that is the mode of thinking in their works. Glass is usually, but not always taking a minimalist style. He has some 12-tone pieces, heavily atonal that make no references to tertian constructions but most of what has become appreciated about him is the minimalist pieces. Minimalist is just one term of many one might use to define it though.
I'm not familiar with the musical terms but i guess in my emotional terms i'd call the piano's sound a bit too... artificial, empty?
It sounds ok from a pc's bad speakers, but from good headphones, it sounds different, maybe you could tell me how you'd call it. And why you think it fits the song? I'm not a musician, but I am a visual composer, which is why i'm interested..
you are aware that it's a forte piano, correct? - made to be like a piano Mozart might have played. it's just a fun little recording I did - just playing the song how i felt at the time - not rhythmically accurate--on purpose.
Your version is very expressive and has changed my approach to the piece. It's really beautifully done. I really like the slower pace. The audio is kinda hard to hear so I may be wrong on this: I think you have the syncopation between left and right hand wrong. I might later put a video up of me playing it, though this music is not really my forte. You can look and see if I'm playing wrong, you're playing it wrong, or we're both playing the same and I just can't hear yours that well.
lol... why? why even bother responding? you got some kind of point to make here? given i just now realized how futile it is responding to your snobby ass. lol... stop wasting your breath, get back up on your high horse... and.... go.... away
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What century is it Phillip? Your mind-numbingly moronic musical rants will die into oblivion with you. You poser/clown of the highest order. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
whatever you're thinking should "die" will go long long long after your narrow minded pinheadedness is forgotten by the people who will never know you exist. This is mathematical perfection in nature expressed through music, which will never die. Something you're incapable of understanding so don't even try, as it's already obvious you haven't.
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Yes. Sing for me you inane, pompous monkey. Glass is an Ass. The only thing more deranged and retarded than Glass is his sycophant admirers.
"This is mathematical perfection" LOL This is inane drivel of the highest order magnified by an infinite sum and then multiplied by an infinite power. It's simple-minded nature coupled with its inability to explore new territory is what you find most appealing because it reminds you of yourself.
your response could not be more predictable... yup, a genuine music snob... just looking at your profile your definition of "simple minded" is probably nothing less complex than recording the tossing of china down a staircase as a schyzophrenic tortures a small puppy... lol... whatever you say, pal, but from the looks of it you've filled your cup...
"recording the tossing of china down a staircase" LMAO Talk about predictable! Its always interesting to get a Glass fans take on modern music. Since you seem devoid of any sort of modern sensibility, its best you stick to living in the minimalist, sloppy haze that Ass paints for you. Heaven forbid you would try to venture into the 21st century. No, you shouldn't try to come to terms with relevant, modern music because Ass has too many bananas to distribute to his monkeys - pathetic.
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And if a dirty little butt licking no nothing has a monopoly on cornering the retard market, I'm assuming you'll be their marketing director, Newton. Always interesting to get the feedback of some neophyte who thinks contemporary classical has anything to do with a talentless flake like Glass. Guess you'll pass on the Xenakis, Ferneyhough, and Finnissy albums to much rather insult modern classical by promoting this low reaching drivel...how that working for you, kid? When you age beyond 3 post.
Though the composers you mention are certainly well thought of in the musical community, they are all relatively inaccessible, Ferneyhough in particular. Just because a musical idea is simple does not mean it is drivel. Insulting others based on very subjective means of assessing music is not going to win them over to your side.
Define what you think is accessible. Given, composers like Xenakis are coming from an alien aesthetic to most, as the music pushed NEW boundaries and doesn't placate to a pop audience.
Although Xenakis was no Bach by a long-shot, one can make an apt analogy here: Bach, during his time period, was more famed for his improvisational virtuosity at Keyboard instruments - specifically the Organ. Much of his music wasn't thought much of during his lifetime. In fact, it was seen as odd by many.
I think the same can be said of progressive composers today - well, some of them.
Of course, the perceptual likes and dislikes of many regarding will always be subjective; however, you certainly couldn't argue that glass is progressive. If you could, you deserve to be editor of a modernist music journal.
I would rather be entranced into a state of novel thinking rather than be battered by such simplistic, overtly placating nonsense; nonsense which breaks no new ground.
This was excellent and absolutely beautiful. Er, just a question- who precisely played it on the piano? It couldn't have been Aaron Macmillan, could it? (Sorry, I do have a reason for asking.)
hi radiofriendly....i love the original version of this piece but your one is just as impressive...is it possible you could perform the whole song and then put it on youtube. 1:43 isnt enough for me!
Thank you - I'm thinking of doing an album of glass on forte piano...this was very improvisatory--unthoughout...I'm glad people like it. I think I can do much better with the playing (and the video!)
hi radiofriendly....i love the original version of this piece but your one is just as impressive...is it possible you could perform the whole song and then put it on youtube. 1:43 isnt enough for me!
More romantic than I would have thought. Late 2007 I heard Glass play his own music live, also more romantic than in earlier years. Actually, I like it.
No! This is a piano modeled on a piano Mozart might have played - tuned to a different A' (430 pitch probably). An 'a' hasn't always been an 'a'...if you know what I mean.
thank you...I was a bit disappointed but 1/2 pleased. I recorded the computer screen...played it back on a monitor and recorded the monitor screen (again). - check out the link in the description.
You mean the distorted sounds? I hear an A flat being played, but no A natural. I'm not sure if it's out of tune, but something's definitely different about the noise this instrument makes!
how can you put gershwin and copland in the same sentance? Copland just regurgitated the work mozart did in a way that was minimaly different. George Gershwin changed the face of music! And while Philip Glass is amazing, nobody can compare to Gershwin...except maybe Debussy.
honestly, if you can't appreciate copland for what he did, then your opinion means nothing to me. i agree that gershwin changed the face of music--what do you think that glass is doing? and at any rate debussy, while great, doesn't really compare to gershwin.
See, I never really saw that copland did anything. His work was just a modern version of what everone else was doing. I don't know...it always sounded shallow to me, like he didn't mean what he was writing. I can see where people would like copland, but to me his music isn't anything special.
have you heard rodeo or billy the kid? the first time i heard all of billy the kid i was shocked into silence. give it a listen if you have the time! :)
I listened to it. Its not bad. Infact, it's the sort of song most people would like. Its pretty, good eye candy if you will. I don't tend to like music like that. I like music with more disonance, more passion. I like music that can move me to feel emotions. Like chopin makes me cry, smetena gives me out of body experiences... For me it is not enough for music to be pretty, it has to do more. It needs to be extrodinary for me to love it.
I love GunsNRoses! But Philip Glass is really great. It's so wonderful when a person can appreciate several kinds of music without being limited by stereotypes... Metal or classic: where's the difference since there's a big work behind? Since there is Love for it? Listen to Music, guys, every piece you like, no matter it's a different style from what you usually listen to. And never stop! That's the best thing ever... Inspiration is Art, Art is Inspiration.
no offense but I am not a huge fan of your interpertation of the peice, I prefer to create more of a swell, and place less of an accent on the twos than the trees, it make the peice "flow" and become very "dreamy", but I still liked your version
Your interpretation for this song is better than Philip Glass' interpretation.
davidowenjames 11 hours ago
can i please please please have the full version of this song please? ahhhhhhhhh this interpretation is amazing..
Madelyn910 3 weeks ago
This is amazing. Great visuals too.
BlindSoothsayer 1 month ago
<3<3
kolumb21 2 months ago
melodia empática... que anuncia intimidade e cumplicidade ...
sorayabianca 2 months ago
Every night you die, every morning you are reborn, this is why you are sad in the evening. So every morning thats given us is a beautiful hope. Philip Glass matches a great mix of sadness and hope.
picball39 3 months ago
32 people are deaf as of 10.5.2011
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albertonicanor 4 months ago
pleaseeeeeeeeeeee in 360p at least 240 sucks
albertonicanor 4 months ago
Basinski is more rewarding. This is what it is.
Clownspike77 5 months ago
very beautiful
MagicalSunrise1984 6 months ago
try this, i am listening the original version and this video together now and it sounds pretty good :DD
alaespsd 6 months ago
Wonderful tribute and interpretation of Philip Glass's composition! I love the combination with the images a lot too. I think you captured the spirit of his beautiful piece of music very well. He definitely is a master, but I think Glass can learn something from you in the way you approach things by heart and know that imperfections are part of the cosmic 'opening up' :). Thanks! I featured it on my channel today. greetings from Holland, Door
3DDoor 8 months ago
like stars in the nightsky.
ihugtheworld 8 months ago
I am sure you are well aware that you have the rhythm wrong... but if it is a purposeful mistake of you trying to interpret it... i would like to note that the low notes feels like the beating of a heart. Which is actually a quite beautiful effect and a wonderful interpretation.
Daniel4119 9 months ago
The forte-piano makes this piece sound even better. <3
ionas82 9 months ago
nice video...
FelipeZucchetti 9 months ago
che pezzo di merda
fkoff99 9 months ago
I like it
chatking1983 9 months ago
Also see Eric Watson The Peacocks.
moxievisioninfo 10 months ago
The video is only 1:44 long but when i listen to it my mind is in such a trance that it seems like hours before the video is done.
rofu37 11 months ago
Magnificent! :D
hpsapphire915 1 year ago
Hey, man, I'll send you $20 for that CD! I DEMAND MORE OF YOUR STUFF!
yonoid818 1 year ago
ya, the rhythm is off its slower but you know what I actually like it like this, good job.
underthepink92 1 year ago
ya, the rythm is off but you know what I actually like it like this slower..great job!!
underthepink92 1 year ago
arañas cuánticas...
ARGANTICAENIS 1 year ago
oh my gosh this is so beautiful it hurts.
Bebkins 1 year ago
@Bebkins
Gran comentario... siento lo mismo!!!
ARGANTICAENIS 1 year ago
This picture seems molecular structure of matter.
lekunberriko1 1 year ago
I just wish it had kept going! It made me feel very calm and...nice! Thank You!
19blonde91 1 year ago
this makes me feel in love
biankitalin 1 year ago
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revistaaionmx 1 year ago
touched my heart,thank you
sissors66 1 year ago
Too short! needs to be about 3-4 minutes longer, great job, wonderfully peaceful music
machngunjoe 1 year ago
I don't know if the records show it, but in the past few days, ever since I discovered this work, I must have listened to it dozens of times, often for an hour or more in one sitting, alternating it from time to time with CubusDK's (very different) interpretation:
Your work is, along with the other one, my absolute favourite interpretation of this magnificent work.
I only wish it were longer!
And the visuals are compelling - and strangely touching - as well.
Hadewijch 1 year ago
Very beautiful!
Hadewijch 1 year ago
This is pretty cool... what is it exactly? Just a whole bunch of dots?? I don't quite get it.. I like the music.. Sorry, I'm not quite gettin it here.
DJacKnifeAlpha 1 year ago
what an interesting experiment!! thank you for uploading :)
tigerfishgirl 1 year ago
Beautiful interpretation of one of my favorite Glass pieces. Just faithful enough, with lots of quirks and imperfections that only add to the piece. Love the twangs and buzzes! It sounds like a trio!
mhairston 1 year ago
You actually did an amazing job with this interpretation. The music is indeed to often played agressively by other musicians. In spite of a few rythm mistakes I think you got a pretty good idea here about Glass music.
DeusVivus 1 year ago 2
there is no right and wrong, only order and chaos
it´s very beautiful
picball39 1 year ago
This music almost makes me staring into the air, watching the world from different
perspectives. Like see the world through the eyes of an eagle that flies above the most beautiful treasure we got : Earth.
Like understanding without thinking.
picball39 1 year ago
Towards the end, it made me think of women dressed in sequins dancing slowly under a blacklight.
thezaylady 1 year ago
Wow, what a heartfelt interpretation of "Opening ", loving that special flavour.. cant really pin point what it is, and true, its sad it is not the full version ... Gypsy Love, pax Et Lux, Gypsy
Gypsy4119 1 year ago
This is a beautiful interpretation, quite close to how I like to play the piece, and beautifully augmented by the tone of the pianoforte - would love to hear the whole piece!
cheeted 1 year ago
Que maravilla, que delicadeza
jolgramenawer 1 year ago
this reminds me of a film i saw about fascia .....
starvinggods 1 year ago
I'm afraid you have the rhythm wrong... second eigth note goes between the second and third triplets...
otherwise, amazing job. :)
Niyou77 1 year ago
@Niyou77 Yes, it's an interpretation - sort of an experiment - I tried to not use the head but the heart just as an experiment.
radiofriendly 1 year ago 23
@radiofriendly wow, yes, I really prefer your interpretation to the original!
BobbyAlter 1 year ago
@radiofriendly Ah, I really like the hesitation. It adds a little something. I've been humming along with it on repeat for, like, 10 minutes. If I come up with a tune, I'll be sure to post a response.
bunnichuktube 1 year ago
@radiofriendly I think you nailed it, my friend.
colourcollection 1 year ago
@radiofriendly I think this is the most beautiful interpretation of this composition ever.... Absolutely fantastic.... I feel like the performer performs on the piano which is on the bottom of the ocean.... Very touching, indeed... I have been enjoying this performance immensely.....
SrdjanAsanovic8 1 year ago
@radiofriendly well you failed.
sstuddert 11 months ago
@radiofriendly sounds good but hearts don't have ears
guitar1006 10 months ago
@radiofriendly Brilliant :D
TheElectricOak 8 months ago
@radiofriendly How convenient that it just happens to be easier to play this way.
schmetterlink 2 months ago
People that meditate and are very spiritual are the ones that truely appreciate this type of music.
MarvelsofaLifetime 1 year ago
@MarvelsofaLifetime what type of meditation are you speaking of?
ElectricFizzPop 1 year ago
Your musicality in this piece is awesome. I love the "question mark" you leave the listener on at the piece's close. The timbre is perfect for this piece. Simply amazing. Thanks for the video.
losackp 1 year ago
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MrCholeriker 1 year ago
I love all songs from Phillip Glass
He is a genius because he has the abilityto convert his thinking into music!
MrCholeriker 1 year ago
cool!!!!
very cool!!!!
basics242 1 year ago
Its beautiful, my favorite interpretation. Empathetically played, sympathetic to the melody and the off kilter rhythm. Recording sounds great. I love the movement noise behind the piano, gives it a real sense of intimacy. Lovely string buzz in places too, shame its not the full version though.
lowgoat 1 year ago 10
@lowgoat Thanks so much! If you'd really like the full version I could send you a CD in the mail...with about 19 tracks of other (more crazy) things...and some sim. For $10. (send me a message)
radiofriendly 1 year ago
Hello Everyone! If You like this kind of music please check my chanel at youtube, Im a beginner composer who uploaded some of my compositions for piano and I'm interested in your opinion about my music Thank you:)
BarnabasFolk92 1 year ago
what grade would this be?
tobylangston900 2 years ago
Hi! great musician!...if you like this kind of music check out my new composition on my profil! thx:)
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anglesbecker 2 years ago
phenomenal graphics
pureecstasy 2 years ago
lol...geez,,,what's with the vapid, self-promoting rants on this video...?
davidpar2 2 years ago
haha, that's what i was thinking. can't people just enjoy good music?
bostaffskills 2 years ago
I just love this piece. It's pretty simplistic, but eerily soothing at the same time. Well done
pnewcombutt 2 years ago
it's Philip Glass... :)
i adore Philip's work
deadboltman 2 years ago 4
what is the meaning of the image in the video..are their cells?
DaxusDragon 2 years ago
I believe its used to describe the fourth dimension. I once saw something like it before, the artist used these grids or cells, that sort of resemble cartesian coordinates to describe the flux of say a hypercube. If you notice although the white rings give the resemblance to a cube, the lines do not connect in such a way to make a cube. Thus you have a kind of movement that gives the impression of a 4D bulge in 3D space.
dovell138 2 years ago
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dovell138 2 years ago
makes me think of a brownstone in new york city, whose wealthy inhabitant lost everything he owned. he returned years later to find only his piano in the empty house...
davidpar2 2 years ago
Very nice.
druidmechanics 2 years ago
reminds me of a rainy day.
Slippinginar 2 years ago 2
there's no sitar or other instruments. It's either a prepared piano or one that has natural warpage to cause it to buzz. It's pretty and enjoyable but not correctly played. The left hand part starts to lose the steady 8th note pattern and follow the triplets which kinda undos one of the main points of this composition.
Dreammotive 2 years ago 2
It's a fortepiano - a really cool sound for this piece I think.
tobyox 2 years ago
Wow Dreammotive, I was very impressed by your comment. I didn't know somebody possessed such insights.
brideofabull 2 years ago
"one of the main points of the composition" You mean there is more than one part to a Glass Komposition? That, sir, is a revelation...perhaps of the millenium...well, thusfar.
sonicpsychiatry 2 years ago
Man, there is quite a lot involved in creating a minimalist piece that's successful like this one. If I knew all the secrets I'd be writing stuff like this myself and getting famous.
Dreammotive 2 years ago
The "secret" is Philip's heart, his soul. It's fully tuned to this kind of music.
Sure, you could try to compose something similar, but if it's not coming from the most deep and authentic place in your heart, it will be a mere imitation and it will not have the emotional impact of Philip's music.
CleverDjembe 2 years ago
@Dreammotive i was quite surprised upon watching the documentary film "glass: a portrait in 12 parts" that philip glass doesn't call himself a minimalist composer! he says that name was put upon him by others. hm...
tigerfishgirl 1 year ago
@tigerfishgirl True. Beethoven didnt call himself a classical composer. Or Chopin a romantic. But that is the mode of thinking in their works. Glass is usually, but not always taking a minimalist style. He has some 12-tone pieces, heavily atonal that make no references to tertian constructions but most of what has become appreciated about him is the minimalist pieces. Minimalist is just one term of many one might use to define it though.
Dreammotive 1 year ago
the piano is very appropriate.
esldave 2 years ago
thank you for this its subtle and beautiful
DIEZAUBERFLOTEMENSCH 2 years ago
is there an instrument accompanying it? sounds a little like a sitar.
very nice!
TheUrsaMinor 2 years ago
I would agree it sounds so empty and vacant but to imagine it played in a large empty hall would be beautiful
compositionqueen 2 years ago
it's too bad the piano sound isn't that good/appropriate. I like the playing though!
abadeizer 2 years ago
Why is it not appropriate? I think its very appropriate
gazzomuso1235 2 years ago
I'm not familiar with the musical terms but i guess in my emotional terms i'd call the piano's sound a bit too... artificial, empty?
It sounds ok from a pc's bad speakers, but from good headphones, it sounds different, maybe you could tell me how you'd call it. And why you think it fits the song? I'm not a musician, but I am a visual composer, which is why i'm interested..
abadeizer 2 years ago
you are aware that it's a forte piano, correct? - made to be like a piano Mozart might have played. it's just a fun little recording I did - just playing the song how i felt at the time - not rhythmically accurate--on purpose.
radiofriendly 2 years ago
pianoforte. I like this piece.
bowchatch 2 years ago 3
this is splendid! Quite lovely! well done!
hotelflamingo 2 years ago 3
******Stars*******
loraurora 2 years ago
so... dramatic...
OperaJes 2 years ago
Your version is very expressive and has changed my approach to the piece. It's really beautifully done. I really like the slower pace. The audio is kinda hard to hear so I may be wrong on this: I think you have the syncopation between left and right hand wrong. I might later put a video up of me playing it, though this music is not really my forte. You can look and see if I'm playing wrong, you're playing it wrong, or we're both playing the same and I just can't hear yours that well.
casfin 2 years ago
lol... why? why even bother responding? you got some kind of point to make here? given i just now realized how futile it is responding to your snobby ass. lol... stop wasting your breath, get back up on your high horse... and.... go.... away
llieske 2 years ago
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sonicpsychiatry 2 years ago
wonderful
animal90sFreak5 2 years ago
thank you, a lovely song. well done.
garibah 2 years ago
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What century is it Phillip? Your mind-numbingly moronic musical rants will die into oblivion with you. You poser/clown of the highest order. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
sonicpsychiatry 2 years ago
whatever you're thinking should "die" will go long long long after your narrow minded pinheadedness is forgotten by the people who will never know you exist. This is mathematical perfection in nature expressed through music, which will never die. Something you're incapable of understanding so don't even try, as it's already obvious you haven't.
llieske 2 years ago
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Yes. Sing for me you inane, pompous monkey. Glass is an Ass. The only thing more deranged and retarded than Glass is his sycophant admirers.
"This is mathematical perfection" LOL This is inane drivel of the highest order magnified by an infinite sum and then multiplied by an infinite power. It's simple-minded nature coupled with its inability to explore new territory is what you find most appealing because it reminds you of yourself.
Dance for me monkey...dance.
sonicpsychiatry 2 years ago
your response could not be more predictable... yup, a genuine music snob... just looking at your profile your definition of "simple minded" is probably nothing less complex than recording the tossing of china down a staircase as a schyzophrenic tortures a small puppy... lol... whatever you say, pal, but from the looks of it you've filled your cup...
llieske 2 years ago 3
"recording the tossing of china down a staircase" LMAO Talk about predictable! Its always interesting to get a Glass fans take on modern music. Since you seem devoid of any sort of modern sensibility, its best you stick to living in the minimalist, sloppy haze that Ass paints for you. Heaven forbid you would try to venture into the 21st century. No, you shouldn't try to come to terms with relevant, modern music because Ass has too many bananas to distribute to his monkeys - pathetic.
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makalati 2 years ago
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And if a dirty little butt licking no nothing has a monopoly on cornering the retard market, I'm assuming you'll be their marketing director, Newton. Always interesting to get the feedback of some neophyte who thinks contemporary classical has anything to do with a talentless flake like Glass. Guess you'll pass on the Xenakis, Ferneyhough, and Finnissy albums to much rather insult modern classical by promoting this low reaching drivel...how that working for you, kid? When you age beyond 3 post.
sonicpsychiatry 2 years ago
Though the composers you mention are certainly well thought of in the musical community, they are all relatively inaccessible, Ferneyhough in particular. Just because a musical idea is simple does not mean it is drivel. Insulting others based on very subjective means of assessing music is not going to win them over to your side.
skyerune 2 years ago 6
Define what you think is accessible. Given, composers like Xenakis are coming from an alien aesthetic to most, as the music pushed NEW boundaries and doesn't placate to a pop audience.
Although Xenakis was no Bach by a long-shot, one can make an apt analogy here: Bach, during his time period, was more famed for his improvisational virtuosity at Keyboard instruments - specifically the Organ. Much of his music wasn't thought much of during his lifetime. In fact, it was seen as odd by many.
sonicpsychiatry 2 years ago
I think the same can be said of progressive composers today - well, some of them.
Of course, the perceptual likes and dislikes of many regarding will always be subjective; however, you certainly couldn't argue that glass is progressive. If you could, you deserve to be editor of a modernist music journal.
I would rather be entranced into a state of novel thinking rather than be battered by such simplistic, overtly placating nonsense; nonsense which breaks no new ground.
sonicpsychiatry 2 years ago
Very well thought out. I enjoy your input!
16Jacob1616 2 years ago
sigh
meowfairydust 2 years ago
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razzigirl 2 years ago
Funny that you should go about looking at Philip Glass music clips then. :-p
CSGraves 2 years ago
Philip Glass OWNS!!
crdrews 2 years ago 3
This was excellent and absolutely beautiful. Er, just a question- who precisely played it on the piano? It couldn't have been Aaron Macmillan, could it? (Sorry, I do have a reason for asking.)
UnoriginalJess92 2 years ago
Nope, it's myself. More of my music is on Myspace(dot)com/americanpirates
radiofriendly 2 years ago
where do you get the sheet music from?
Gotskillz88 2 years ago
so beautiful...
Cemina 2 years ago 3
Beautiful done.
IIEleniII 2 years ago
hi radiofriendly....i love the original version of this piece but your one is just as impressive...is it possible you could perform the whole song and then put it on youtube. 1:43 isnt enough for me!
BRUCEWAYNEDK 2 years ago
Beautiful...Will Digg in more for the Visuals. Looks very interesting...
eyejoy4me 2 years ago 2
Thank you - I'm thinking of doing an album of glass on forte piano...this was very improvisatory--unthoughout...I'm glad people like it. I think I can do much better with the playing (and the video!)
radiofriendly 2 years ago
hi radiofriendly....i love the original version of this piece but your one is just as impressive...is it possible you could perform the whole song and then put it on youtube. 1:43 isnt enough for me!
BRUCEWAYNEDK 2 years ago 2
Always loved Philip Glass's music.
silverstartrucker 2 years ago
Simplemente magistral, el amor expresado en esta impresionante mùsica. Llena los sentidos de sensaciones dulces, suaves....
Gejise2009 2 years ago
this is awesome! good music AND visuals! sweeeeeeeeet!!
0180871a 2 years ago
thank you so much! - my musak myspace(dot)com/americanpirates
radiofriendly 2 years ago
this is amazing
RIMBAUD78 2 years ago
Phillip Glass is simply mesmerizing. <3
LipsLikeSugar78 2 years ago 3
One of the best recordings of it I have heard. Good work. Does the fellow who made the images have a website or an email address I could have?
whalehunting 2 years ago
Website is in the description---check there to see if there is contact. I can pass a message to him.
radiofriendly 2 years ago
More romantic than I would have thought. Late 2007 I heard Glass play his own music live, also more romantic than in earlier years. Actually, I like it.
BuckshotLaFunke 2 years ago
im sat here trying to work out the notes on an digital piano. im guessing its mine thats not ridiculously out of tune?
urmumisgay123 2 years ago
No! This is a piano modeled on a piano Mozart might have played - tuned to a different A' (430 pitch probably). An 'a' hasn't always been an 'a'...if you know what I mean.
radiofriendly 2 years ago
So that's what a piano forte sounds like, eh? Neat song choice for it. Charming instrument/song combo. Carry on!
jebsievers 2 years ago
No, Piano is just a shortening of the actual real name for the piano which is pianoforte. All pianos are pianofortes
ScriabinFanatic 2 years ago
Like it!! "If you like filmsounds in combination with electromusic, maybe you like one of my songs:
John Monolisan - Hear This
John Monolisan - Remember
John Monolisan - Days of Future Passed
Of course it's not this level;), but please enjoy, comment and rate my songs! Thanks
JohnMonolisan 3 years ago
this is wonderful to cotruction the austism's spirit.....thanks from Beijing,China....wangchunhong, Dadance therapist.
dimensionalartdance 3 years ago
Never mind about Gershwin, Philip Glass's minimal music is simple but very effective.
silverstartrucker 3 years ago
This piece is what online art house Moving Image presentations should be: engaging musically, visually engrossing, made for tiny screen. Great work.
mgalin1 3 years ago
thank you...I was a bit disappointed but 1/2 pleased. I recorded the computer screen...played it back on a monitor and recorded the monitor screen (again). - check out the link in the description.
radiofriendly 3 years ago
hmmm...anyone else notice how out of tune this piano is? good playing tho...
vandal640 3 years ago
if you have perfect pitch, you would really notice...the "a" isn't normal...it's a forte-piano modeled on Mozart's.
radiofriendly 3 years ago
yea it was bothering me a little bit lol, but I didnt realize the forte is different like that...btw that background imagery is awsome!
vandal640 3 years ago
look in the (more info) above and you can see a link to my friend's site - who built the wire frame thing. You can manipulate it w/ your mouse.
radiofriendly 3 years ago
You mean the distorted sounds? I hear an A flat being played, but no A natural. I'm not sure if it's out of tune, but something's definitely different about the noise this instrument makes!
jebsievers 2 years ago
Oh, that rare sense was an out of tune??... One learns things every day.
sgiraldoa 3 years ago
every time i heard this melody it is like describing a person
madonna915 3 years ago
amazing. he's up there with gershwin and copland.
starchild225 3 years ago
how can you put gershwin and copland in the same sentance? Copland just regurgitated the work mozart did in a way that was minimaly different. George Gershwin changed the face of music! And while Philip Glass is amazing, nobody can compare to Gershwin...except maybe Debussy.
whossoul 3 years ago
honestly, if you can't appreciate copland for what he did, then your opinion means nothing to me. i agree that gershwin changed the face of music--what do you think that glass is doing? and at any rate debussy, while great, doesn't really compare to gershwin.
starchild225 3 years ago
See, I never really saw that copland did anything. His work was just a modern version of what everone else was doing. I don't know...it always sounded shallow to me, like he didn't mean what he was writing. I can see where people would like copland, but to me his music isn't anything special.
whossoul 3 years ago
have you heard rodeo or billy the kid? the first time i heard all of billy the kid i was shocked into silence. give it a listen if you have the time! :)
starchild225 2 years ago
I listened to it. Its not bad. Infact, it's the sort of song most people would like. Its pretty, good eye candy if you will. I don't tend to like music like that. I like music with more disonance, more passion. I like music that can move me to feel emotions. Like chopin makes me cry, smetena gives me out of body experiences... For me it is not enough for music to be pretty, it has to do more. It needs to be extrodinary for me to love it.
whossoul 2 years ago
educate yourself on music. many surpassed Gershwin entirely before Gershwin ever entered the world.
explosivejelly 3 years ago
I'm not saying gershwin is the best out there, but he did revolutionize music, as many others before him did.
whossoul 3 years ago
Cop Land was a great movie. Stallone's best. :P
jebsievers 2 years ago
I love GunsNRoses! But Philip Glass is really great. It's so wonderful when a person can appreciate several kinds of music without being limited by stereotypes... Metal or classic: where's the difference since there's a big work behind? Since there is Love for it? Listen to Music, guys, every piece you like, no matter it's a different style from what you usually listen to. And never stop! That's the best thing ever... Inspiration is Art, Art is Inspiration.
KisaLilith 3 years ago 3
Such a fine and well-rounded attitude...I was the kid who listened to Green Day and Bach
Ocendesert 3 years ago
no offense but I am not a huge fan of your interpertation of the peice, I prefer to create more of a swell, and place less of an accent on the twos than the trees, it make the peice "flow" and become very "dreamy", but I still liked your version
jasongoody1 3 years ago
@scattt
You mean the melody, or are there lyrics that I don't know about? Anyway it's strange because this video makes me smile.
Little blue dots, like people tangled in a great big yarn, unaware of its structure but moved by it back and forth in every direction.
Moved as if motivated by some reason, although in truth, the cause and effect chain runs on and on, well out of view.
IrreducibleParadox 3 years ago
i would have to agree with scattt on this one. the piece is so moving to me that i'm almost in tears, but not necessarily because i'm sad...
rhcpmusic 3 years ago
great visuals, perfectly complimented by Glass's amazing composure. Thanks
cloudbowski 3 years ago
i love this music since 20 years - thank you for the videos.
somepieces 3 years ago
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Guns N'roses is way better than this crap.
FORKduhFACE 3 years ago
hahaha guns n roses. at least it doesn't take him 15 years to release an album.
makelikepaper 3 years ago 15
DOOORK!
TimothyBarson 3 years ago
Soo... you have a Dork-face??
Philip Glass is great!
Guns & Roses is the gayest band ever...
marianito8989 3 years ago
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everyone loved use your illusion so dont lie
best heavy metal record
of the 90s
8data 3 years ago
Philip Glass is awesome. The subtle nature of his music feels natural. The music grows as if it is alive.
dharmaduckbird 3 years ago 3
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i don't like who the guy play, is bad
jpkinkanetjp 3 years ago
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Every piece this guy has soungs drab and the same listen to all of them......Sorry!
dredlew 3 years ago