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Monday, 20 February 2006
Naqoyqatsi ::
Saw Reggio’s Naqoyqatsi in SF tonight, with the Philip Glass Ensemble performing the soundtrack live. Despite having perhaps gotten a whole year’s Recommended Maximum Exposure to minor-chord arpeggios in one dose, the music really worked well with the film. 89 minutes of abstract, constantly moving (often fast-moving) visuals seems to be a lot for the brain to process; the repetitive quality of the music seemed to balance that well.
This morning Christoffer emailed me: a Firewire hard disk containing the mastered tracks for my CD (and 50 GB of session audio files) is being shipped from Sweden Monday. Hurrah! The end is in sight, but I’m having misgivings about the running order. The one I chose in December, and have been attached to since, is a very musical sequence through the wide variety of moods, without any abrupt shifts, but the downside is that it begins with the least characteristically-me 15 minutes, and then the remainder is really “what I do.”
So I’ve spent some hours shuffling titles in text editors, and shuffling audio files in various players. Many ideas, no revelations.
At an impasse, I just did a Google search for ‘CD “running order"’. The third result was the Amazon page for the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack, the first film in the series of which Naqoyqatsi is the third. Sync.
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