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Images from the movie ‘Mr Brooks’ (MGM, dir. Bruce Evans, 2007, excerpts).
Music from Antonio Vivaldi ‘Viola d’Amore’ (deranged excerpts).
Category: music
The birth of music
A sensorial experiment. I am playing a violin exercise designed to confront the player with the same notes played in different ways. If in the begining there was just one note, then this must be how music came to be.
Mr. Parish departs
Follow Mr. Parish in his wonderful journey into the afterlife.
When you are a very respectable person, Death meets you in a tie and suit with fanfarre & fireworks.
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Images from the movie ‘Meet Joe Black’ (Universal Pictures, 1998, dir. Martin Brest, excerpts).
Soundtrack from Camile Saint-Saens ‘Danse Macabre’ (Symphony Orchestra of the Marcin Zebrowsky Music School, dir. Zygmunt Nitkiewicz, 2013, excerpts) and Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony Trauermarsch (Junges Philharmonisches Orchester NiederSachsen, excerpts).
All good things to those who wait
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This clip features Dmitri Schostakowitsch Waltz No 2 performed by the Zentralschweizer Jugendsinfonieorchester directed by Felix Schüeli (Sep. 18, 2016, excerpt) and part of the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs’ (1991, edited excerpt).