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Popular culture is out to get me.
Oct. 4th, 2006 09:54 amOr at least distract me from work. It's taunting me.
I was just joking to Kevin the other night about how running across grassy fields (we were hurrying to a concert) makes me think of Swedish movies. Or at least, the image my mother always described as being from a Swedish movie (why Swedish? I have NOOO idea), where people are running across a field to greet each other after a long separation, and the music is going "DA Daaaaaaa, Da da da DAA da DAAAA, Da da da DAAAAA DAAAAAA...."
And just now WFCR played that theme at me. Turns out it's from the Fantasy Overture to Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky. And EVERY time I hear this piece, I have to look for a playlist explaining what the hell it is. And every time I forget. This time I'm going to tag the entry.
In other stupid musical reference news, the Sept 21 issue of Nature has an article about supernovae over the Chandrasekhar mass. They named the articles "Champagne supernova." Does that have a source _other_ than the Oasis song lyric? Cuz I can't find one. (Aside to Google: what, no love for the NOT operator? You suck.)
Argh, there's that damn theme again.
I was all geared up yesterday afternoon to write a post about how yesterday was Steve Reich's 70th birthday, which was nifty because I only discovered him on Sunday, when I got to hear The Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo play his "Piano Phase," which was just mesmerizing. The streaming Naxos music library we subscribe to at work has a version of it on two marimbas, which is even more mesmerising. I am now in love with phasing.
Which reminds me: another area in which the internet just does _not_ cough up the answers is when I try to get the music credits for an episode of Reading Rainbow that used a piece of phased music. It was from their episode with music: it opened with clips of three music videos, the story was "Ty's One Man Band," and they got Ben Vereen to perform a dance number. They also visited their guy who did all the synthesizers for the show. Then they played this weird piece along with some weird graphics. I've never been able to find the piece; it's possible their music guy just composed it for them, but it was rather more complex than the stuff he usually does.
Anybody else remember that episode? Any idea what the piece was?
The music video clips in that episode, for the record, were El DeBarge's "Who's Johnny?" (the video involves neither robots nor amusing engineers named Ben, sadly, it's a courtroom drama), Tears for Fears "Head over Heels" (the part where the catalog drawer spits cards at him), and Sting's "Love is the Seventh Wave." See? The internet hasn't failed me completely.
I was just joking to Kevin the other night about how running across grassy fields (we were hurrying to a concert) makes me think of Swedish movies. Or at least, the image my mother always described as being from a Swedish movie (why Swedish? I have NOOO idea), where people are running across a field to greet each other after a long separation, and the music is going "DA Daaaaaaa, Da da da DAA da DAAAA, Da da da DAAAAA DAAAAAA...."
And just now WFCR played that theme at me. Turns out it's from the Fantasy Overture to Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky. And EVERY time I hear this piece, I have to look for a playlist explaining what the hell it is. And every time I forget. This time I'm going to tag the entry.
In other stupid musical reference news, the Sept 21 issue of Nature has an article about supernovae over the Chandrasekhar mass. They named the articles "Champagne supernova." Does that have a source _other_ than the Oasis song lyric? Cuz I can't find one. (Aside to Google: what, no love for the NOT operator? You suck.)
Argh, there's that damn theme again.
I was all geared up yesterday afternoon to write a post about how yesterday was Steve Reich's 70th birthday, which was nifty because I only discovered him on Sunday, when I got to hear The Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo play his "Piano Phase," which was just mesmerizing. The streaming Naxos music library we subscribe to at work has a version of it on two marimbas, which is even more mesmerising. I am now in love with phasing.
Which reminds me: another area in which the internet just does _not_ cough up the answers is when I try to get the music credits for an episode of Reading Rainbow that used a piece of phased music. It was from their episode with music: it opened with clips of three music videos, the story was "Ty's One Man Band," and they got Ben Vereen to perform a dance number. They also visited their guy who did all the synthesizers for the show. Then they played this weird piece along with some weird graphics. I've never been able to find the piece; it's possible their music guy just composed it for them, but it was rather more complex than the stuff he usually does.
Anybody else remember that episode? Any idea what the piece was?
The music video clips in that episode, for the record, were El DeBarge's "Who's Johnny?" (the video involves neither robots nor amusing engineers named Ben, sadly, it's a courtroom drama), Tears for Fears "Head over Heels" (the part where the catalog drawer spits cards at him), and Sting's "Love is the Seventh Wave." See? The internet hasn't failed me completely.