我想我第一次是在某个我喜欢的电影里听到了这个配乐,一直不断重复的短暂的钢琴片段,迭代的方式让我着迷 ,今天偶然看一个Youtube上的广告,看评论,才知道原来这个是Philp Galss风格的音乐。
原来这种风格在电影配乐中,音乐剧中都相当的流行,我原来还以为都是同一首曲子呢,原来是一种风格。典型的电影有:The hours, Notes on a scandal.
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. His music is frequently described as minimalist, though he prefers to describe himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures”. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, and is described by his biographer, Tim Page, as “the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music — simultaneously. ” Glass is extremely prolific and counts many artists, writers, musicians and directors among his friends, such as Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Doris Lessing, the late Allen Ginsberg, Robert Wilson, Godfrey Reggio, Ravi Shankar, David Bowie, and the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who all collaborated with him. He is Buddhist and a strong supporter of the Tibetan cause. In 1987 he co-founded the Tibet House with Columbia University professor Robert Thurman and the actor Richard Gere. He has composed some remarkable scores for a number of films including the “Qatsi” trilogy by director Godfrey Reggio (“Koyaanisqatsi”, “Powaqqasti” and “Naqoyqatsi”), Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun”, Peter Weir’s “The Truman Show” and Stephen Daldry’s “The Hours,” in addition to a number of operas (“Einstein on the Beach” and “Satyagraha”) and the quintessention of the minimalist tradition with “Music in Twelve Parts.”