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This is a youtube I made this morning, using the MIDI version of my newest orchestral work, The Wild Coast (finished last weekend) and images by Erin McKittrick. Here are the program notes (click on them to enlarge):
And here is the video:
Saturday Art: The Wild Coast |
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| By: EdwardTeller Saturday November 19, 2011 2:24 pm | |
This is a youtube I made this morning, using the MIDI version of my newest orchestral work, The Wild Coast (finished last weekend) and images by Erin McKittrick. Here are the program notes (click on them to enlarge):
And here is the video:
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Nice and quite evocative! Very 20th century American-sounding to me. For the life of me, I kept hearing Hovhaness even though it really doesn’t sound like his stuff.
Fantastic! Good heavens. Alaska is so breathtakingly beautiful.
Really cool to see and hear original work.
Thank you, reccd.
PS How many pictures are in this, and what program(s) did you use? You don’t have to answer, I’m just curious.
When Allen Hovhaness moved to Seattle in the mid-70s, I was transitioning to Alaska from there. I had met him at a young composers’ seminar at the U of W in late 1967, and had grown to respect his work. In 1968 or 1969, I met someone who told me Edgar Cayce had gone into a trance in the 1930s to help the then young Hovhaness’ severe spinal problems. The cure he came up with for the kid (mostly exercise and diet) saved him.
In the fall of 1974, I encountered Hovhaness at a Seattle copy shop. He was copying press reviews and I was copying a chaconne for piano I’d just written. I showed it to him. He seemed unimpressed, but happy to be able to talk with somebody who loved his work. I mentioned his link to Edgar Cayce, asking him if anyone had recently interviewed him on the matter. He seemed uncomfortable about this for some reason, and started backing off from me. Not sure why. Last time I saw him.
Nobody has ever compared my work to his before, Phoenix Woman. quite an honor.
I downloaded Erin’s photos from one of her website’s niches. She is an amazing photographer, and the youtube’s display of them do not do them justice. Click on the link to her name in the post to get to her photos.
I made the video in iMovie HD.
Sweet, I am going to have a look.
Following them on twitter, love the philosophy. Wonder why the disparity in photo quality. Probably a kink that will get better as the technology improves, I guess. Great link there, thanks.
The more I think on it, the more I think it’s because you and he seem to know how to render American landscapes, especially those on the West Coast, in sound — the end results are different but I think that the methods (or at least the thought processes) are similar.
Beautiful and wild. I really like the music. Well done, ET. I have a fascination about Alaska and read Dana Stabenow’s books because she loves Alaska with her words. Thanks for entertaining us with your excellent work.