MLT Club Member Jürgen
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“There’s a theory that I maliciously worked Stu out of the group in order to get the prize chair of bass,” Paul McCartney told biographer Barry Miles. “Forget it! Nobody wants to play bass, or nobody did in those days.”
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The following song comes to mind with a pronounced bass line. It’s not exactly MLT Forum mainstream, but I like it. It is a popular hymn at various soccer World Cups.
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Hello Jung,
a beautiful classic with an even more beautiful bass line:
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Thanks Jung, a thoughtful film, not only about friendship but also about lonliness, getting older and not losing your role in life. You’re right: the magic of such films is that in a short time and without words, these kind of films can express feelings and ideas in such a compressed form that classic movies take at least 90 minutes to do the same.
Not only since Wallace & Gromit, stop motion films have been a great way to bring physically impossible things into an enchanting form.
The following one is a beautiful metaphor about two people who live together and yet have grown so far apart over the years that they practically live in two parallel worlds. Sometimes it takes a small but important reason or a nice memory for their worlds to sync up again.
PS: you will like “Soul”
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One of the most beautiful musical animation movies I’ve seen lately is “Soul”. The film is about the love and passion for music. The focus of the story is the music teacher Joe, who dreams of being able to live out his love of music. A balancing act between his gray everyday life and his love for music. A lovely film with many surprising twists.
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Hi Jung,
thank you for the beautiful and entertaining short films.
Animated films often still struggle with the image of being just children’s films and not serious art, but I don’t think they really were. For me it is still an interesting art form in its own right, which opens the door to the imagination, which begins where reality has its limits. But the combination of music and animation also opens up new creative possibilities, as the video for Janitor Joe proves.
Probably a milestone of the animated music film is Fantasia, which was produced by Walt Disney as early as 1940 and is loosely based and inspired on a ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Hi David and Jung,
there are certain songs that are forever associated with a special sound or a characteristic voice for me. “Let it be” is such a song. Without Paul’s vocals, “Let it be” is simply: …let it be… 😀. When I first heard “Let it be” as a kid or teenager, I didn’t know it was by The Beatles. But even then it gave me goosebumps. I just happened to come across “Let it be…naked”. The album was released a few years ago, but somehow I didn’t notice it and ordered it right away. It has been remixed and the musical gimmicks of Phil Spector have been removed. Some songs sound a bit different now; e.g. “The Long and Winding Road” now benefits from the piano and less of the strings and the orchestral part that has been added by Spector. But as so often in life: purely a matter of taste. The Beatles were apparently never really satisfied with the version released in 1970. Maybe it was because they already broke up as a band. Paul didn’t particularly like Phil Spector’s mastering. The other three probably liked it better. So here is a version of “Let it be” as Paul may would have liked.
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Speaking of mathematical symmetry and music, I’ve seen some interesting documentaries dealing with the relationship between mathematics and music. Unfortunately all in German and not very helpful here. But perhaps an interesting aspect of these documentaries: the golden ratio or golden section. The golden ratio plays an interesting role not only in art, architecture or photography (images designed according to this principle appear more interesting to the viewer; the golden ratio describes a specific division ratio of a distance or other size, in which the ratio of the whole to its larger part corresponds to the ratio of the larger to the smaller part), but also in music.
With a little imagination and scientific inaccuracy, this aspect ratio can also be applied to the human body. But the golden ratio can also be applied to music. The idea that there is such a universal code in nature and perhaps throughout the universe is tantalizing and was particularly popular in the 19th century. It can’t be scientifically proven, as far as I’ve understood. Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer believed in a geometric-mathematical harmony in portraits and in the depiction of people. Michealangelo, on the other hand, rejected this idea: man cannot be pressed into a fixed measure. It seems to be the same in music. Some believe music follows a universal code that permeates the entire universe, others dismiss this as imprecise and not very scientific. Myth or mathematics?
Since I didn’t find any English-language documentation on this topic that I liked, I’ll try to add a German-language documentation. Just a quick overview. However, English subtitles can be set and selected. sorry for that. I hope you like it anyway: “How much mathematics is there in music?”
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Hi Jung,
very nice to hear from you again. A wonderful guitar rendition of this timeless piece of music and a gifted guitarist indeed. I have never heard of him before. Thank you for sharing.
Maybe not quite appropriate to the topic, but some time ago when I was looking for music played on the Theremin I found this cover version of „Somewhere over the rainbow“. The Theremin always exudes something mysterious and spherical. It actually goes very well with the song. An enchanting dance of frequencies.
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Hi Tim,
I always find the combination of rock music and cello or double bass fascinating. Thanks for the contribution. A groovy song, that gets right into your feet.
Here’s another great one:
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A very nice jazz adaptation of the song, Chris. I like that. I found another nice guitar/vocals cover version of the song. I think there are as many cover versions of this song as there are grains of sand by the sea (including many well-known musicians).
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Well Chris, I’m not an expert on the golden ratio, but thanks for asking me. I don’t know the book you mentioned or its author. I looked into the book once and it seems to me that it is written in an interesting way and that it gives an introduction to this topic. There are also descriptive pictures and graphics available, which I always like. As I understand it, this book focuses on the golden ratio in art, sculpture and architecture. And also in nature. I can’t judge whether the subject of music is particularly discussed here. The book is available as an e-book (kindle) for $1.95 from am…n. I don’t think you can go wrong at that price. If you buy it and read it, please let me know how you like it. I also might be interested in that.
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Hi David, thanks for your comments on the golden ratio. Yes, maybe the golden ratio plays a rather minor role in music and when it does appear it’s maybe more accidental than intentional. But I’m not a musician enough to be able to judge that. I became aware of the golden ratio because I like to take pictures. In photography, the golden section describes the geometric image design. For example, it is about the placement of the main motif and the surface ratio of foreground and background. Here, the golden section can serve as an inspiration. If you take pictures regularly, you automatically divide up the area in this way. You just have the feeling that a picture looks well or looks interesting. Maybe it’s similar in music: a composer simply “feels” when a piece sounds good. A more intuitive affair and less mathematics. Or mathematics as an intuitive feeling? Which came first: the hen or the egg? 😀
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Thanks Dave for posting the videoclip „Moon River“. A very nice song. You’re right: The guitar sound is really reminiscent of the theremin. I enjoyed the artistic design of the video very much. I like animated music videos like this. The mood of certain pieces of music can thus be reproduced well. All the better that Mona & Lisa’s new video clip „Janitor Joe“ is also created in such an animated style. It would have been the icing on the cake if the two had also appeared artistically stylized in the video. But also such a very imaginative music video. It’s very nice that Mona and Lisa vary their artistic style and develop an enormous diversity over the many videos they produced.
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Hi Jung,
I wish our physics teacher had introduced us to such exciting things as the Theremin. Instead, we learned about magnetic fields, coils and Ohm’s law in the 7th school year and calculated resistances. And with every calculation of the resistance, my resistance to physics increased until the induction voltage in my brain became so large that it resulted in my personal big bang and physics drifted permanently out of my universe. A real pity.
PS: I’ve heard good vibrations many times, but never consciously noticed what instrument creates this slightly extraterrestrial sound in the background. I always found that sound funny and fitting to the song and never thought about what I was hearing.