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Oy, veh. Philip Glass gives me the hives.

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Yeah, I really do not like Philip Glass’s music, but I actually love the soundtrack to this movie. I heard it one day on the radio (local classical station was playing it) a few years after the movie came out and didn’t know what it was. I was really surprised it was by him. But the rest of his stuff just doesn’t work for me at all.

Funnily, Koyaanisqatsi ranks on the lower end for me for Glass works (no pun intended). I’m a huge Glass fan(atic perhaps), and much prefer stuff like Truman Sleeps, Mishima, Jane soundtrack, Glassworks, Symphony #4 Heroes (Glass/Bowie/Eno), Mad Rush, etc etc. His music composed specifically for the piano is gorgeous.

Amy Dickson’s saxophone interpretations of his violin concertos are absolutely riveting, example: https://youtu.be/ZdUWPA_AX6o

The soundtrack from Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is absolutely incredible, just like the movie as a whole. I've been looking for a way to get prints of some parts of the movie, the last blu ray from Criterion has a small booklet with a few pictures from the sets, but they're very small.

AI upscaling works incredibly well in my experience.

Is there any in particular that you would recommend? I'll admit that I have a negative prior for AI upscaling, as I've seen a few cases in I think iPhone pictures where the AI added things that weren't there. Ideally I'd like to find the original pictures of the sets, as either they will be digital, or can be digitized without losing anything, but it looks like it would require a trip to the USA at the E. Young Research Library, and I'm not even sure I would be allowed to take copies.

It's interesting that there are two fan groups of Glass' music with almost no overlap. Qatsi trilogy is also on the lower end for me, but my favorite pieces are his more experimental works like Einstein on the Beach. Most of his Hollywood soundtracks are way more conventional.

I adore Philip Glass, and it was through Koyaanisqatsi that I discovered him back when the movie was released.

I have been fortunate enough to see PG & the PG ensemble perform Music in 12 Parts (I heard the piece twice that day: once traveling to the concert hall, and once live) as well as attend an evening of piano works by him performed by him and a series of other pianists. On my bucket list is seeing Einstein on the Beach live – easily my favourite opera.

I have been collecting his music since the early nineties, and much prefer his earlier works – his later symphonies, etc, while fine, do not, to my ear, retain the stark beauty of his younger days.

I wish Phillip Glass and Don Martin collaborated on an A Cappella album.

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-Domestic Mayhem and Carnage Involving a Small Child, His Mother, a Dog and a Police Officer

The minimalism is precisely why I like him.

Perhaps he’s an acquired taste. Although I fell for Glass immediately as an adult. As soon as I heard a few notes I was drawn to the music.

From pretty much the first time I'd heard/heard of Glass (conceivably Koyannisqatsi) I found him kind of boring, and didn't listen carefully, except for the Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass album, because I love KQ. Apparently dismissing Glass is a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizP7IFyWig

Anyway, after many years I've listened carefully and love it all. I hope to experience (and will gladly fly to) a live performance of Einstein on the Beach someday. Like the infinitely more sophisticated person in the linked video, I was wrong about Glass.

Pretty much same for me. Listened very casually/cursorily/briefly in my late teens, tried a few times again in my 20s and 30s, and found it kind of boring and unexceptional.

Then in my early 40s I dug in a bit and really started actually listening and exploring. And oh man what a wide universe of musical discovery burst forth for me after that. And I couldn’t believe that I didn’t put in a little effort earlier..

I managed to see Einstein on the Beach in London a while back, recommended! It is performed maybe once a decade or something somewhere…

I think the Tales From the Loop soundtrack is easy to get into. Yes there is repetition, but there's also motion as the phrases change to convey different ideas.

Yes, I enjoyed the music in that series. VERY reminiscent of Truman soundtrack, but of course, he borrows and does variations upon his own earlier works all the time. Truman is very reminiscent of Mishima imo also.

I discovered him through the soundtrack for the American remake of Breathless with Richard Gere. His music makes the film.

I recently listened of Philip Glass: Piano Works performed by Vikingur Olafsson and that left me speechless.

Softer, more dynamic, more soulful, less mechanical.

Highly recommended.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5q7DgKLBQ54FXKAfGxNMGs?si=zwt...

Exactly my experience as well

Philistine.

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