the music is so beautiful in MOS that i can't imagine shooting the movie without the music already written for it. its like the movie was made for the soundtrack not the other way around
It's a shame they sidelined this piece of a masterpiece for John William's. Don't get me wrong, I love John William's classic but Hans Zimmer's is another level on its own and to me, this theme has come to represent the Superman of this generation.
I really miss Cybertron... Someone fluent in both the arts and sciences isn't very common at all. You could argue the musician is involved on some level whether he knows it or not just as the car modder or automotive technicians are involved in engineering applications within their fields.
+Herb Bees I agree it's rare and therefore all the more impressive - perhaps - because opposite sides of the brain are required to be highly and equally developed to function in both fields. The great Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet began his professional life as a teacher of mathematics at the University of Lausanne.
+Herb Bees I think you fellas are wrong... when it comes to music. I feel music is different than the rest of the arts. There has been this kind of urban legend that science requires just a very analytical mind while music sort of rejects it, but that couldn't be more wrong. Science, and the prople that are attracted to it need a big deal of creativity, just as music also invites that part of our mind capable of recognizing patterns, a part for which analysis and logic are central. Speaking as someone that also did physics, and whose biggest hobby has always been music, in recent years learning to play too, I think the overlap of traits that attracts us to both is more profound and common than people think. Music and the yearn for the knowledge and clarity that science gives us aren't at all opposite when it comes to brain fuction.
Believe me i've listened to every soundtrack from man of steel and im familiar with every soundtrack from the movie, so once you get familiar with all the soundtracks, you can easily identify what soundtrack is this and from which part of the movie and also you can blend in any video related to man of steel and enjoy the best parts, and this video made me realize that... i really got chills when she was playing the violin
At around 1:30 it sounds like she's talking about a Child she's taken care of and doesnt want to give back to its parent, well she practically said that herself but what a musician
Very refreshing to her speak of an instrument like she did, can agree the instrument itself brings a lot to the table. It's why vintage Minimoogs will never go out of style.
0:40 this might be the easiest piece I've ever seen played on a Strad! It's an interesting journey here in terms of the timeline because the piece is a 'gavotte' originally written for cello or viola in the 17th century by Bach - the violin in the video is from the 18th century - then this violin version was made easier for students to learn and released in "The Suzuki Book" which came out just a few decades before the 21st century....
It's been almost 6 years I have been trying to get the music that was played in first 15 seconds of this video . Anyone know about this please let me know
Lovely playing, but she really started to go off the deep end when talking about entropy theory and dissonant harmonics self-correcting. I suspect she found that violin profound because of her experience working such a cool job, not because of any real noticeable quality of the violin. Blind her to the instrument she's playing and I bet the profoundness vanishes (which is the case with previous blinded Stradivarius tests.)
She's allowed to express her own feelings towards the music that she plays and the violin with which she plays it. Personally I found her intellect very insightful and engaging for she showed an understanding of what it was that she was doing through not only playing music but attaching herself to it and forcing her way into the multitude of its secrets. I think she did feel a genuine bond with that violin. I used to play an electronic keyboard which consisted of 5 octaves and no weighted keys. Therefore the expression of my emotions felt restricted and confined. I now have a full size electric piano and through differences in tone, pitch and dynamics I feel as though I can express my emotions through ever more intricate ways. Of course she loves her job! How can you expect a person with such a profound level of passion for their art not to! You're not stupid. You're just not trying to understand what drives her passion for music.
organ199 You've missed my point. I understand the connection one can feel while playing an instrument that lets you express yourself. Hours feel like minutes. I've been there. My criticism was in her invoking pseudoscience to try to explain what is clearly a matter of circumstance (great job, great people, great music, capable instrument, captive audience). There is no magic quality of the violin she's playing that requires explanation through quantum mechanics or whatever the pseudoscientific jargon du jour is. Such claims previously have not borne out when tested under controlled conditions.
