Images 4 Music

Studio: Ars Electronica
Product Type: DVD

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4 images
Priorities?
Glasslover

Images 4 Music

Manufacturer: Ars Electronica
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Philip Glass : Orion
Philip Glass: Looking Glass
Glasscuts, Philip Glass Remixed
Philip Glass : Les Enfants Terribles
Symphony No. 6, Plutonian Ode

ASIN: B0007ODIJO
Release Date: 2005-01-14

Customer Reviews:

4 images.......2005-11-21

You will not see any musician playing any instrument. You will see only images, colour, like those of window media player, something so bored. If you like the sound, buy a cd with the complete work, but this dvd is not that you want.

Priorities?.......2005-10-22

This DVD release is a strange phenomenon. The point of the DVD seems to be a trail run by Ars Electronica through the auspices of Harmonia Mundi to present visuals of the music by Philip Glass and Steve Reich before the CD of this two piano four hands arrangement of Glass' opera 'Les Enfants Terribles' and Reich's 'Piano Phase' is released.

Whatever the justification this DVD proves to be an interesting introduction to Glass' music in particular. All manner of images are rendered including the pure electronic art of Dietmar Offenhuber, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Lotte Schreiber, Casey Reas, and Martin Wattenberg. The wonderful music is performed by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. For those unfamiliar with the Glass chamber opera this is a fine introduction.

For classical music lovers who are finding the more frequent use of video and electronic visual aids (like in the immensely popular 'Tristan und Isolde' production from the LA Phil with Bill Viola's videos, Peter Sellars, direction, Esa-Pekka Salonen's conducting) exciting, this is a fascinating experience and one that will possibly gradually make a noise in the market place. Imagine an opera's sets on a DVD that could be projected on any stage in the world? Curiouser and curiouser....Grady Harp, October 05

Glasslover.......2005-09-30

this dvd records the four hand version of glass' recent opera L'enfants terrible played by davies and will soon be released as a CD. The dvd shows visuals during performance which are nice, but not necessary.

for those interested in 4 hand piano music and philip glass this is a real treat. warning: the DVD does not play in car dvd players and the active side of the disc is not marked.

Philip Glass & Steve Reich: Images 4 Music

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Philip Glass & Steve Reich: Images 4 Music
Starring: Glass. Philip , and Steve Reich
Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Book Description

The urge towards the optic is arguably being felt increasingly in all media; music is no exception, as Images 4 Music demonstrates. Whether the results are spontaneous, derivative, algorithmic, abstract, poetic, or simply arbitrary, visual artists and computer geeks have been joining together with noise creators in a cooperative spirit, achieving greater results than any individual could solo. Such is the case with this experimental production by an interdisciplinary range of collaborators. Images 4 Music, performed live at Ars Electronica 2004 and studio-mixed to perfection here, articulates different interpretations of two works, one by each of these vanguard composers. Philip Glass's Les Enfants Terribles and Steve Reich's Piano Phase are reworked by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa on two pianos. Added to this are layered multiple visual components, from Casey Reas' indefinite flux of rounded and out-of-focus forms to Norbert Pfaffenbichler and Lotte Schreiber's kinetic, grey, two-channel video. Dietmar Offenhuber orchestrates scenes of commuters moving among urban architecture, the Poetry Loom adds a wash of concrete poetry, and Martin Wattemberg provides a film of liquid kaleidoscopic distortions. Altogether, this unpredictable melange of new media artists and musicians definitively breaks with the traditional focus on the musical performer. Here that focus shifts away from the singular virtuoso to the relationship that exists between a team of diversely talented practitioners who together push the potential of a contemporary hybrid audio/visual language.

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