Film

[pyraxis]

Today at work I got to see part of the SIGGRAPH 2010 Electronic Theater. It's a collection of the best CG short films of the year.

This one by Daihei Shibata was my favorite. Watch it full screen if you can.

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Comments

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

That is a pretty awesome film. Really awesome.

And I love that music. I really love debussy. Then I was trying to remember which piece it was by him. Got it! Claire de lune. Mum loves piano and used to play it. We grew up tinkling on her piano *smiles* And now she listens to piano music a lot :-)

found this while checking I had the right one. Violin and piano *smiles*

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

Also, the recording in the movie is beautifully played :-)

[pyraxis]

I really love that song. I like it with the violin in it too. That's like a more... traditional? rhythm of it, and the other one feels like spontaneous discovery. Maybe it's because of the violin. I studied piano but not violin and watching that man play feels like a lot of compressed energy and disciplined sound, where the piano is, like, playful?

It reminds me of being at my aunts' and uncle's houses that we visited when I was twelve. We had one of those nature CD's that plays classical pieces along with sounds like loons and crickets. I used to play it when I was drawing and working on computer game design. I keep trying to get that feeling back but it's not working very well.

j-t

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

Usually I think of piano being more disciplined and violin more playful, but in these recordings I think the same as you.
I love the way in classical music how pieces originally written for one instrument are traded and adapted to others. But then to play it in the instrument it was originally written for can be like discovering it all over again.

We used to have a cd like that too except it was australian birds and insects etc. (Never heard a loon, in spite of Loon being my nickname all through my childhood and even when older as well.)
For me that cd was like opening my eyes in the morning to a canvas tent above me, early sun shining through, Knowing I am totally out in the middle of nowhere *smiles*