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12 May 2025 Hamburg (Germany)
Hamburg International Music Festival: Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman - Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal
Program Info: Film with live music by Philip Glass »Koyaanisqatsi« (director: Godfrey Reggio, USA 1982)
Philip Glass Ensemble: Michael Riesman, keyboard and musical director Andrew Sterman, flute, piccolo, soprano saxophone Sam Sadigursky, flute, soprano saxophone Peter Hess, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Lisa Bielawa, keyboard, vocals Mick Rossi, keyboard Ryan Kelly, Sound-Design Dan Bora, Sound-Design
Minimal apocalyptic
Famous fans like the producers Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) and George Lucas (Star Wars) helped to popularise the visionary film. Its narrative devices were entirely new and ground-breaking back in 1982: devoid of any plot or dialogue, people rush around through the modern, machine-influenced world in fast forward – an apocalyptic vision of the collision of man and nature, technology and the environment.
The soundtrack by the minimal music legend Philip Glass enhances the hypnotic effect of the film, resulting in an audio-visual synthesis of the arts. The faster the machines turn and the assembly lines run, the more stressed the people working on them become, the more Glass ramps up the tempo of his repetitive music patterns. Although the composer himself no longer performs, his ensemble carries on the spirit of his music, true to the original.
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