New Sounds Live: Miners' Hymns Live

[rich]

the skipping groups of smiling children starting at 2:02. made my day


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Ruth Flatscher <ruflatsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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