New Sounds Live: Miners' Hymns Live

[Ruth Flatscher]

wow, thank you so much, Alice.
am really envying you, John. hoping for my chance, too.
greetings from nightly Europe,
Ruth


On 28 June 2013 01:35, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you ever get a chance to see this film on the big screen, jump on
> it. Caught it last year after having been a fan of the score for some
> time and it was unforgettable.
>
> Here's the final sequence on youtube. I've watched it dozens of times
> but the crest still raises the hair on my neck.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Rfkhg7s_M
>
> In fact, much of Johann Johannsson's work might be of interest to P
> readers. Lots of resonant themes - early computing, rockets, mad
> capitalist utopian dreams, a world laid waste.
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:30 AM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> > New sounds, as many here know, is a wonderful program.
> >
> > From his earliest fiction P has shown an interest in the people who go
> > underground.
> >
> >
> >
> > From the New Sounds Live concerts, we'll hear “The Miners’ Hymns,” a film
> > score from the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.  The work is a
> > brass-heavy elegy to the coal mining culture in Northeast England, with
> the
> > brass elements hearkening back to the colliery bands, which used to be
> the
> > local entertainment.
> >
> > Bill Morrison’s footage, which he refers to as his first real
> documentary,
> > is made up of clips from British TV news coverage of ‘80s miners strikes,
> > and National Coal Board promotional films, framed by slow, stately
> flyover
> > shots of where these Durham collieries used to be.  Listen to most of
> > Jóhannsson’s score, as it was performed live by the Wordless Music
> > Orchestra, conducted by Gudni Franzson, featuring the composer on
> > electronics, all recorded earlier this year at the Silent Film Series at
> the
> > World Financial Center.  Plus, one more leftover work from the Ecstatic
> > Music Festival by Jason Treuting called  “pluck, bow, blow” – where all
> > three members of janus wield many instruments, including melodica, banjo,
> > bowed harp, and the dizi, a Chinese flute.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/2013/jun/26/
>



-- 
Mag. Ruth Flatscher
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna
Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck
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