I wish organs weren’t so impractically large that learning/playing them is limited to churches. Ever since seeing the organ at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, I’ve wanted to learn it for compositions like this where you get so much depth to the sound.
>mfw you call yourself a leftist and link Steve Reich but it’s not his string quartet piece for trains
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…yeah nice try. Not obvious at all
I love how this song has a sort of extraordinarily tragic carnival vibe that fits perfectly to the “crazy life” of the modern capitalist state
It’s very on-brand for Koyaanisqatsi. A major theme of the film is the urban decay of the 1970s.
I’ve only seen Baraka in the same vein and the cinematography is beautiful.
Great tune, I remember someone posted it back in the subreddit megathread and I’ve been hooked to it since.
There’s such a thing as “home organs”, but they don’t really come close to the feeling and sound of a church or concert organ. I know some folks swear by hauptwerk though as a relatively “less expensive” route, especially if you can DIY it by scrounging up your own MIDI keyboard/pedalboard setup: https://www.hauptwerk.com/ (Though even dropping $1.5k instead of scavenging equipment off craigslist etc is still much cheaper than a full-on organ of comparable sound quality, but I assume at any given moment I’m speaking with fellow broke bitches here.)
I’ve got a pretty good keyboard but it’s like a double-bass for me. The big appeal is the gravitas of so much energy in an instrument. With the real thing the size of it adds a visceral feeling to the music and dominates the room.
Oh yeah, in terms of sheer Presence, nothing comes close to the real deal. The size, the sound, even just the way the detail-work on the facades of a lot of organs draw the eye like a gravitational pull - it touches on that idea of the Sublime not just as beauty, but as being wholly taken in by a force that could utterly destroy you.
I used to daydream about a common space or some sort of public studio I guess, something large enough to house those kinds of instruments, with the responsibility of their use/care/maintenance spread out over as many musicians who want access to them. I can see how it’d be more complicated logistically than a dorm common room with an old standup piano, but a girl can dream.
Didn’t know Wil Wheaton had musical talent.
