It’s too easy an analogy to draw, of course, but I can’t have been the only person whom that particular combination of sound and image made feel like Dave Bowman tumbling through the stargate at the end of 2001, albeit with a different Darmstadt alumnus at the musical helm. And wasn’t it all so deliciously paced? Several times during its course we were taken to the very outer reaches of monotony (sometimes literally), only to be dealt yet another audiovisual sucker-punch.
Chris S
6 years ago
I saw Filidei less than two weeks ago at a Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella concert, performing a solo organ work, Lamento, with unpitched air sounds I have never heard from an organ before, and Scelsian massings of sustained tones; it was one of the most interesting things I have heard at a Green Umbrella. (Oddly, I see now that I would have previously heard his Toccata for piano, though I remember it faintly at best.)
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It’s too easy an analogy to draw, of course, but I can’t have been the only person whom that particular combination of sound and image made feel like Dave Bowman tumbling through the stargate at the end of 2001, albeit with a different Darmstadt alumnus at the musical helm. And wasn’t it all so deliciously paced? Several times during its course we were taken to the very outer reaches of monotony (sometimes literally), only to be dealt yet another audiovisual sucker-punch.
I saw Filidei less than two weeks ago at a Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella concert, performing a solo organ work, Lamento, with unpitched air sounds I have never heard from an organ before, and Scelsian massings of sustained tones; it was one of the most interesting things I have heard at a Green Umbrella. (Oddly, I see now that I would have previously heard his Toccata for piano, though I remember it faintly at best.)