When I consider activism
I hear a solid note
shared through many voices
One cannot hold a note
sustained forever
we gotta breathe and rest
together we hold the note forever
breathing and resting
while others Sing
the Songs of Freedom
continue forever
Our collective voices share
We are not free until
we are all free...

Listen to the collective nature of this Philip Glass piece, a symphonic note, a chord, together in motion and rhythm...
https://tidal.com/track/360675179?u

Minimalist, Lo-Fi, programmatic minimalism.

I've implemented a Lo-Fi Orchestra, Arduino version of an extract of Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach. More specifically, part of Knee Play 1.

In this version the HT16K33 is performing the voice number parts alongside a synthesizer for organ and voice sounds.

https://diyelectromusic.com/2025/04/01/minimalist-lo-fi-minimalism/

Minimalist Lo-Fi Minimalism

https://makertube.net/w/5TiaDYBYDfRTp7XKq86ZLH

Ikonischer Film, mittlerweile 42 Jahre alt.
Es wirkt komisch: Technologisch haben wir uns doch sehr weiterentwickelt, gesellschaftlich hingegen bewegen wir uns wieder in der Zeit zurück. Die Musik von Philip Glass unterstreicht die Szenen so gut, dass der gesamte Film keine Worte braucht.
Er macht einen auch heute noch #sprachlos
(Link in den Kommentaren)

So OMM gas released an album with Philip Glass playing his own works on solo piano.

I have only listened to a few pieces yet.

First, Glass is a terrible piano player.

Second, those versions are significantly different from other recordings and official scores. Truman Sleeps, for example, have changes in harmony and structure and a new ending, making it a much more interesting piece, albeit terribly recorded.

https://tidal.com/track/341587573?u

#PhilipGlass #MinimalistMaestro #Music

Happy Birthday to Philip Glass! His memoir "Words Without Music" includes one of the best pieces of creative advice I've ever read:

“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.”

Speaking of Glassworks I remember seeing a promo video for Floe featuring a computer animated coloured cube flying over New York & ending up in the palm of a young woman (think I saw it on BBC2's Riverside).
Nowhere online these days #PhilipGlass #Glassworks

The Philip Glass album Glassworks was originally issued with two available mixes, one of which was specifically for listing on "your personal cassette player"... #Music #PhilipGlass
https://album.link/wscjwzwxkj7vt

Second part of a sonic hop-skip-jump through the 1970s for Symphonic Monday:

Philip Glass, "Mad Rush" 14:49 (1979)

Philip Glass playing live on the organ of the cathedral of St.John the Divine in New York City in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFgcWxVQQ8

@classicalmusic

Philip Glass (b. 1937)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass

"Aguas da Amazonia"
Third Coast Percussion
Constance Volk (flute)
(Rockwell Records 2025)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3AeEX9wxHqQPJ4tt1AHEKs?si=WxrNKOQpQLSOTeY-SLX7QA

#NowListening #ClassicalMusic #music #musique #ContemporaryClassical
#AmericanComposers
#PhilipGlass

This arrangement of Philip Glass' Etude no. 6 - originally for #Piano, arranged here for string quartet - has me hoping that this is the start of a larger arrangement project. Quite engaging and works very well.

Would love to hear all of the etudes arranged in this way!

https://philipglass.bandcamp.com/track/etude-no-6-arranged-for-string-quartet

(Sadly, don't see anything from the #HalcyonStringQuartet suggesting that more is forthcoming.)

Hudba na večer.

https://youtu.be/YlVrdvCPq20?si=PNy8cEPrba0qJFV8

Phillip Glass - “Vessels” (from the film “Koyaanisqatsi”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYFxCnc9fg

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 18 November 2024 :

#BardoPond, #Diabologum, #Ganger, #PhilipGlass, #GogolBordello, #CatherineChristerHennix, #HumanError, #Hyperculte, #PhilippeKaterine, #LaTène, #Malaria, #TheMarriedMonk, #mHz, #Moonshake, #OiseauxTempête, #OrchestreToutPuissantMarcelDuchamp, #Perio, #PorticoQuartet, #Razen, #TonyRolando, #EmilianoRomanelli, #Stereolab, #TanzMeinHerz, #Ui, #Various, #KeithFullertonWhitman, #EliWinter, #Wysteria, #FloraYinWong #SébastienRoux,

Been listening to Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts during my various tasks today to help stay calm. https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/philip-glass-music-in-twelve-parts-guide
#music #PhilipGlass

PHILIP GLASS
Mishima
1985 U.S. pressing

A good afternoon to play this; raw, damp and dreary.

I love Mishima. It’s a hard watch, but a very good movie. A movie I haven’t seen in close to 20 years.
Glass’ soundtrack however, is something I revisit a lot, and I’m not necessarily a Philip Glass fan.

There’s an odd, haunting quality to this score that has staid with me for years.

#NowPlaying
Koyaanisqatsi (Hopi): "life out of balance"; "chaotic life"; "life of moral corruption and turmoil"; "life disintegrating"; "a state of life that calls for another way of living."

I am listening to Glass’s score for Koyaanisqatsi in an effort to ward off red emotions. #PhilipGlass