Ambient Music - At What Cost Madness

"Those who cannot remember history, are doomed to repeat it." -George Santayana

Music: Alacazam
Images: WWII Archival Footage

When I watched this footage there were so many scenes that broke my heart. I played the synth strings in real time as I watched the final edit and then added the little FX ostinato part after, I wanted to give the images a kind of pulse I thought, and then I realized how the children shaking their heads and bodies had impacted me.

The little girl's face at :45 just gets me every time.
There is so much emotion, so much innocence.
Can any of us imagine experiencing this kind of tragedy? I honestly can't even comprehend it.

I guess what disturbs me as well, is that historically
war is often the child of economic failure and social despair. In these troubled times, we must never
forget the cost of such madness.


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• Ambient
• Electronic
• Music
• Synthesizer
• WWII

[yokcocuk]

yes ..and you think everythings past...no Iraq,no palestinian,no Afghanistan...our planet became a heaven day by day right?

[alacazam]

I wish..., sadly there is too much death and destruction happening every day. We have so much potential, to do things we can dream of, and yet... power, greed, ignorance, etc. all these things rob us of the best we can be, this video is just a record of another time, I could have made the same video using images from today. All the best. :)

[Kindahuge]

Also to balance out the obviously political comment I already made in reply to dc8wg, I just wanted to say I love your videos alacazam, and this is something every kid out there needs to see to remind them that war isn't the glory represented in Call of Duty.

[alacazam]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate you taking the time. :)

[kaly51]

Simply awesome!!!

[alacazam]

I really appreciate it, thanks. :)

[DAYTOY451]

Beautiful. Brought me to tears.

[obelixbotelho]

thank you for this beatiful video!

[nutaws]

A my kurwa narzekamy, jak nam o 2zł podrożeje kablówka. Ech...

[ArtisLoveTunes]

4 words i can say.......  fuck this shit world.... no more to say bye

[Myownpickle]

Scenes of Germany after what the allies did to them. A law Hitler had passed while he was alive made it a moral and punishable offense for any factions of his military to firebomb cities, thus killing innocent civilians. 7 million German civilians were killed as a result of firebombing by the USA and Soviet Russia, and millions more left homeless.

[JGrayzz]

@trisemigistus True that my friend. We're fucking monsters. Killing each other like animals every single day. It's sickening. We deserve whatever is coming to us.

[Pitchblack2006]

Best piece of knowledge I have ever heard.

With Peace there will always be war.

[trisemigistus]

Call me insane. But the end of all human life is what will bring genuine peace on earth.

[seekerversal]

Wisdom is proved by her actions, I must say that there are times when wisdom is thrown out the window. Powerful and thought provoking video, well done.

[toddplum]

look at my dark music vids...Peter Coukis

[nickle09luck]

really strong video and music......and very sad(((thanks...