Monday, January 4, 2010

Zinc by Zoe Keating

 
http://www.in-c-remixed.com/ In early 2007 the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble recorded Steve Reich's masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians. What followed for this young ensemble was nothing short of a dream--a critically acclaimed at-dawn performance at the Bang On a Can Marathon, a feature article in the New York Times, a segment on NPR's Weekend Edition, glowing CD reviews in over thirty publications, reaching #1 on the iTunes and Amazon classical charts, and spending eleven weeks on the Billboard charts. Perhaps WNYC's John Schaefer summarized it best when he called the recording "The story of the year in classical music."

5 comments:

  1. I love the animation Alex! Beautiful.

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  2. I just used the iTunes Visualizer to create it. Not much work on my part. I was showing it to my daughter and thought it was touching. Your work inspired some nice movement in the program. You are brilliant by the way. I listen to either you Peter Gabriel or Tom Waits when I work. Hope you don't mind me creating the video. I'm flattered you took the time to comment on my website. Cheers

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  3. Ah, the iTunes Visualizer....I can't believe I've never looked at it until now! Ironically, I hardly ever listen to music... ;-)

    I just realized that this is "Magnetosphere", created by Robert Hodgin. Coincidentally we did a live performance about a year ago with my music controlling aspects of his visuals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5lzqqwpm7A

    Anyway, so glad you like the piece and thanks for posting the video!

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  4. Amazing man - that visualizer rocks!

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