Sufjan Stevens previewed the next installment of his Convocations project with “Lamentation II,” an ambient instrumental piece featuring muted electronics and chrome-plated synth. He paired the song with a visualizer filled with comet-like streaks of rainbow color.
Convocations is a five-volume series dedicated to Stevens’ biological father, who died in September — two days following the release of his 2020 record, The Ascension. Each installment of the album is themed around a different stage of the mourning process — a statement describes the project as “five sonic cycles exploring loss, isolation and anxiety,...
Convocations is a five-volume series dedicated to Stevens’ biological father, who died in September — two days following the release of his 2020 record, The Ascension. Each installment of the album is themed around a different stage of the mourning process — a statement describes the project as “five sonic cycles exploring loss, isolation and anxiety,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
“Everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you’re part of a team”
Kids and adults alike went to see The Lego Movie this past weekend to the tune of $69 million in ticket sales. The film that everyone loves is set for another awesome weekend at the box office.
Visually, it is a photo-real, non-traditional computer animation style resembling stop-motion, which gives the characters and settings the endearing homemade aesthetic that defines Lego construction. The Lego Movie contains 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks. Some are reused and reconfigured in multiple scenes, making up sets, characters and props, for a total of 15,080,330 bricks—the number that a person would need if he or she wanted to recreate the entire film by hand.
As much as the visuals and storyline were important to this animated film, much of the credit to the overall success of this delightful movie has to go to the irresistible and exciting music.
Kids and adults alike went to see The Lego Movie this past weekend to the tune of $69 million in ticket sales. The film that everyone loves is set for another awesome weekend at the box office.
Visually, it is a photo-real, non-traditional computer animation style resembling stop-motion, which gives the characters and settings the endearing homemade aesthetic that defines Lego construction. The Lego Movie contains 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks. Some are reused and reconfigured in multiple scenes, making up sets, characters and props, for a total of 15,080,330 bricks—the number that a person would need if he or she wanted to recreate the entire film by hand.
As much as the visuals and storyline were important to this animated film, much of the credit to the overall success of this delightful movie has to go to the irresistible and exciting music.
- 2/14/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Just because the school bell rang at 3 p.m. doesn't mean learning needs to stop for the day! With the help of Ingrid Simone of Common Sense Media (commonsense.org), Us Weekly rounded up our favorite age-appropriate apps to help entertain and educate your little ones outside of school hours. Did we miss your favorite app? Leave your suggestion for other parents in the comments section! Morton Subotnick's Pitch Painter (Ages 3+)Finger painting becomes music to tots' ears with this "ingenious interface" that turns scribbles into the notes [...]...
- 8/26/2013
- Us Weekly
The Man Who Anticipated Our Present in 1967
In 2000, when I was the Classical Editor at Cdnow.com, I interviewed Morton Subotnick at length -- so much length, in fact, that my boss complained that I ran a two-part feature on a guy he'd never heard of whose name, he said, sounded like that of a dentist. Well, as much as I loved that job and that boss, I was right about the importance of Morton Subotnick. He was one of the first computer-music composers to find a broad audience. Among the earliest electronic composers to use electronic instrument designer Donald Buchla's modular voltage-controlled synthesizer rather than wave generators and tape-manipulated sounds, Subotnick broke away from the highly abstract formulas and structures of academically respected electronic music by including sections with regular rhythms, which pointed to the future of electronic music.
His work for tape Silver Apples of the Moon, released in 1967 on the Nonesuch label,...
In 2000, when I was the Classical Editor at Cdnow.com, I interviewed Morton Subotnick at length -- so much length, in fact, that my boss complained that I ran a two-part feature on a guy he'd never heard of whose name, he said, sounded like that of a dentist. Well, as much as I loved that job and that boss, I was right about the importance of Morton Subotnick. He was one of the first computer-music composers to find a broad audience. Among the earliest electronic composers to use electronic instrument designer Donald Buchla's modular voltage-controlled synthesizer rather than wave generators and tape-manipulated sounds, Subotnick broke away from the highly abstract formulas and structures of academically respected electronic music by including sections with regular rhythms, which pointed to the future of electronic music.
His work for tape Silver Apples of the Moon, released in 1967 on the Nonesuch label,...
- 4/14/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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