Friday 5 December 2014

Rhys Chatham - Merci, Chopin


I'm getting into making music for film. But alas, for the moment I have no film score commissions on my desk, so I thought I'd make my own movie and add music to it.. I recently obtained a copy of Final Cut Pro, so I made a movie. It's a 3-minute minimalist movie, influenced, I suspect, by Michael Snow's early work, but that is for the critics to decide!
The music in this video is a rendering of a recent version of my composition, "Merci, Chopin", for four electric guitars, el. bass and drums. The sounds come from Sibelius, but the guitars ended up sounding more like a harpsichord than guitar. Oh well, never mind, you'll get the idea, anyway.
Rhys Chatham

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