Philip Glass, and the Koyaanisqatsi trilogy

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Philip Glass, and the Koyaanisqatsi trilogy

Postby Zerophite » Sun Sep 29, 2002 1:56 am

I went to see Spirited Away with my friend BigshotSpike last weekend, and we saw one hell of an awesome preview before the movie for an upcoming sequel to a 3 part trilogy, called "NAQOYQATSI". With the great minimalistic music of Philip Glass (I'm not much for minimalism beyond BoC, but man...this guy is a genius). Anyway, I did some research on the movies before it called Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, and I was wondering if anyone's ever seen them. EK, how about you? You seem to be engrossed in far underground or obscure things.
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Postby kthulhu » Sun Sep 29, 2002 4:51 am

Isn't it based off an Inuit story or something?
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Postby starwire » Sun Sep 29, 2002 5:08 pm

I'm not too familiar with Philip Glass, but I do enjoy Steve Reich a lot. I love mallet instruments, and his pieces with marimbas and xylophones are strikingly beautiful, and no doubt really influential to electronic musicians today.

kthulhu wrote:Isn't it based off an Inuit story or something?


If I'm not mistaken, you're thinking of The Fast Runner.
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Postby kthulhu » Sun Sep 29, 2002 11:25 pm

Never mind, then.
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Postby Big Big Truck » Tue Oct 01, 2002 8:16 am

I'm not a big fan of Philip Glass, but I've heard good things about the film. Been thinking about having a music theatre viewing night - renting Koyanasqaatsi and the remastered Stop Making Sense DVDs... talk about whiplash! :P
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Postby BigshotSpike » Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:45 pm

NAQOYQATSI looks incredible! We're definately gonna have to go see it, Zerophite. I'm not much of a fan of Philip Glass either, but the score for his latest movie sounds really nice. I'm gonna have to pick it up sometime, that is, once I get more money ^_^
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Postby Zerophite » Fri Oct 04, 2002 1:28 am

The music to Naqoyqatsi is great because Yo-yo Ma is doing the vocals :P
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mutilation colony reflects no triangular energy
asynchronous matter avoided by a diagram invisibility
subtle methods symmetry uncovered a diagonal telemetry"
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