Composers are underrated. People often only care about singers & musicians. Classical composers are so talented too. I’ll always be impressed by an original score composed for a film! It takes a lot of talents, work, and imagination to compose an original piece.
I love Hildur's work. So unique and exquisite. The more you listen to it, the more it crawls under your skin.. Sicario, The Joker, Chernobyl and even in video-game, like Battlefield 2042. Amazing talent.
Hildur introduced me to a whole new genre of music. Fascinating stuff. And her enthusiasm is as infectious as it is inspiring. I'm guessing she has very few bad days. . .
Deep listening? it's great, opens up music to the everyday sounds… and sort of defies genres in that sense. It's, as it says, more about the listening than the…playing, for lack of a better word, and can train you to listen, pick out sounds! these are some classics, and more sort of classical-based, but there are some great music labels on field recordings, ambient, experimental, etc. to check out on bandcamp ~ she mentioned Oren Ambarchi's black truffle, for example.(but the type of releases are pretty wide) The last pick was the first release on Brian Eno's short-lived Obscure label, and he's of course another "classic" in this, but on another side of it. There's creating an environment, and taking in the environment for what it is, in a way… The label that first comes to me now is Longfrom editions, which release four longform pieces (15+ min) by four different artists/groups every… third month, perhaps, which I really recommend.
...damn...that's the first one of these fabulous pieces where I'm going to have to explore everything and buy lots...thank you Hildur for your knowledge and thank you Amoeba for this series...if only you'd go back to having an international shipping service so I could spend my monies on your stock instead going elsewhere....
As an hobbyist composer, obviously have great respect for her work and relate to her passion for music, her album without sinking is great and so are her scores. Could listen to her for hours.
Thank you so much, Amoeba interviewer, for *not* interjecting this absorbing commentary from Hildur Guðnadóttir with your off-camera voice, which would have broken the tone and flow of the discussion.
Yeah. She is a genius and her score for Women Talking was great as well. Even though not indicated by her in this segment, she is a fan of David Sylvian and she was going to collaborate with him on music around 2010..but no luck. She talks about Sylvian on a recent BBC radio program from January 2023.
It's simultaneously wonderful and a bit surreal to listen to young composers talk about their discovery of these classic contemporary composers. Yeah, and it's "Morton" Feldman. 😄
High time we had someone who highlighted proper minimalism and drone! In particular: Gavin Bryars' "Jesus' Blood" is indeed a perfect, perfect, perfect piece.
Hey @amoeba! I watch these on my tv and it's not super pleasant: there are a TON of ads and the placement is sorta lame. I am cool with you guys making money, but putting the ads between the picks (instead of in between the music clips) would really help. Thank you!
This list is the best and so great to see a shout out to Black Truffle, my favourite record label. If you dig this check out Eliane Radigue and Annea Lockwood. So happy that Hildur is bringing interesting music into cinema. Bravo. PS that Reverse Tree LP is sublime.
Finally someone gives us something vastly different from what everyone else is listening to! I'm going to hunt these down. Hildur is amazing herself, of course--I love her work.
