Music at the Service of Images

Truly moving 😃

The opposite is also nice (images at the service of music), a beautiful union with this "Sand Artist" perfectly in line with the music.

This video refers to the last edition of the Youtube Symphony Orchestra

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Wonderful music, I saw the film a few evenings ago, it is "Melancholia" by Lars Von Trier, a true work of art.

I don't know why, but strangely when I saw the opening of Trier's film, I told myself that the Dane was trying to put on Bill Viola's shoes

... then I had second thoughts

In what sense?

I find them fundamentally incomparable. In this film, the music serves as a soundtrack (expressing a certain mood), whereas in Viola, it is the image that acts as a "visual soundtrack" to the music.... the comparison seems reckless to me.

Furthermore, something else came to mind. When there was the first Iraq war and, as you will remember, several oil wells in the region were set on fire, a sort of apocalyptic scenario developed with these wells in smoke and this oil spreading across the land. Obviously, not much was shown on TV. A German director made a documentary about it (with many aerial shots, images as beautiful as they were disturbing). There was no commentary; the entire documentary had Wagner's music. If I remember correctly, especially Parsifal, but also Tristan. The overall effect was terrible.

Wagner is definitely raging for the "end of the world"...

Pablo wrote:

I find an underlying incomparability. In this film, the music serves as a soundtrack (expressing a certain mood), whereas in Viola, it is the image that acts as a "visual soundtrack" to the music .... the comparison seems reckless to me.

Furthermore, something else came to mind. When there was the first Iraq war and, as you will remember, various oil wells in the region were set on fire, a sort of apocalyptic scenario developed with these wells in smoke and this oil spreading across the land. Obviously, not much was shown on TV. A German director made a documentary about it (with many aerial shots, images as beautiful as they were disturbing). There was no commentary; the entire documentary featured music by Wagner. If I remember correctly, especially Parsifal, but also Tristan. The overall effect was terrible.

Wagner is definitely raging for the "end of the world"...

The documentary you mention is interesting (can anyone find it?) .... and that Wagner is an "end-of-the-world" musician is not strange, given that his librettos are among the most death-dealing...

Maybe it could be found on YouTube... I'll take a look.

Pablo wrote:

Wagner is definitely raging about the "end of the world"...

...come on... not always, I didn't actually dislike this one much

Knowing - The End HD – YouTube

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Tenore wrote:

The documentary you mention is interesting (can anyone find it?) ....and that Wagner is a "doomsday" musician is not strange, given that his librettos are among the most death-dealing...

Curious, I searched as well.

It should be "Lektionen in Finsternis" by Werner Herzog.

Soundtrack [edit]

The musical accompaniment draws from a classical music repertoire and includes:

• Richard Wagner: Prelude from Das Rheingold, Prelude from Parsifal, Siegfried's Trauermusik from Götterdämmerung;
  
• Edvard Grieg: Åse's Deathfrom Peer Gynt suite No. 1 op. 46;
  
• Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev: Sonata for two violins op. 56;
  
• Arvo Pärt: Stabat Mater;
  
• Giuseppe Verdi: Recordare from Messa da Requiem;
  
• Franz Schubert: Nocturne op. 148;
  
• Gustav Mahler: Urlicht from Symphony No. 2
  

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalisse_nel_deserto

On YouTube I found this:

But searching better...

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tgdigit wrote:

Curious, I searched as well.

But looking closer...

interesting topic, I also found little to nothing 🙁... I had become curious by now