From Tim Koch Sent Mon, Aug 24th 1998, 03:08
From Tim Koch Sent Mon, Aug 24th 1998, 03:08
> Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that
> contemporary composer Philip Glass has had a significant impact on shaping
> the early days of IDM. If this is so, could you please provide me with
> information and pointers to websites which explain exactly how his music
> was an influence on the genre? Furthermore, does anyone here listen to and
> like Philip Glass' music? Thank you very much.
>
I just last week went and saw Koyaanisqatsi , which is a movie he
scored , and was quite impressed .. although it proved to me that
Rob Hubbard is not quite as clever as first thought , as it proved
that he imitated the music from Koyaanisqatsi so closely in the
Commodore 64 game Delta , as to be unforgivable :)
But of the little I have heard of Glass , I usually find it quite
uninteresting (mainly Einstein on the Beach, which my former
housemate used to have sex to! maybe that put me off .. )
idm related .. here's an excerpt from an interview:
Barrett: How do you feel about mainstream music? Music that the younger
generation listens to.
Glass: Tell me what that is.
Lee Velo (photographer): As opposed to classical you mean?
Barrett: Right, as opposed to opera and classical.
Glass: You mean people like Natalie Merchant, people like...I know
a lot of those people and I work with them too. I did a
record arrangement, a song arrangement for Dorissa
Monte. Do you know her? A Brazilian, a beautiful Brazilian singer.
And I did an arrangement for Susan Vega, for one of her
records. I have a lot of friends who work in the
field of popular and commercial music. There's another young
guy named Mayfax Twin who's a guy, a dance-music guy from
London. I just did a remix of his music. And now
he's going to do a remix of my music. I'm in touch with that
world.
hoho .. someone made a typo , or maybe it wasn't such a memorable
experience for old Phil :)
Tim.