Ugo
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Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 18:09 |
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@ nightspore: those aren't bugs, they're notes. I have no idea about the concept of the video, but, as the music is so abstract than its subject cannot be anything else than music itself (especially with the multiple instruments played by Mike in the piece), I guess that the video was intented as a visual representation of music. From that point of view it works greatly and, I repeat, it's very stylish, but of course that's just my view of it. I also guess that Mike's music works well with wide-open landscapes, as you say, for the very same reason, i.e. that most of it is abstract. And because of the fact that it's abstract, the pictures that it may conjure up in anyone's mind (if any) vary from person to person. For example, when I hear "Misty" (as mentioned in another topic) I don't think about mist, I think about a pleasant walk on the beach, barefoot, at night.  And when I hear "Turtle Island" - apart from associating it with the nice scene from the game, of course - I feel like I'm in a small café somewhere in Spain, again late at night... they're just about near closing time, and there's a guitarist, a keyboardist and a saxophonist having a go at their last tune, before they go to bed. So, I think that sometimes videos (beyond their purely promotional purposes) are made to give people some kind of springboard to build their own visual fantasies when they hear a piece of music. The only trouble is that sometimes a video may end up imposing its own imagery on a song, and this is not really nice, IMHO.
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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