Michael Kamen's Quintet (Canadian Brass)
via youtube.com
A lovely piece by Michael Kamen, commissioned by the Canadian Brass shortly before he passed away.
Apple Mac Music Video - "Again and Again" by The Bird and the Bee
via youtube.com
Not the actual video for "Again and Again", but an incredibly well made Mac showcase video set to the song.
Musical tribute: Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)
via youtube.com
Absolutely brilliant song remix from Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and Stephen Hawking's "Universe"! And it's catchy too!
Lyrics (from the blog Unfiltered Perception by Gunnar Tjomlid):
[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it’s own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
Made by Norway
via youtube.com
Wonderfully atmospheric and poetic commercial for the Nowegian company Aker, meant as "a tribute to people working in industry today - people who work hard and never give up." The poem used is Ivar Aasen's "Nordmannen". Directed by Norwegian director Erik Poppe, with lovely music by Swedish composer Johan Söderqvist ("Let the Right One In").
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
via vimeo.com
Very cool and fascinating demonstration of our inner musical abilities.
Rune Karolius
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/ / / [en] About me:
Technical manager at Aurora kino IKS, running cinemas in Tromsø, Alta and Kirkenes in the north of Norway.
I am very fond of movies, comics, Mac, iPhone, gadgets and film scores.
/ / / [no] Om meg:
Teknisk leder på Aurora kino IKS, som drifter kino i Tromsø, Alta og Kirkenes.
Er godt over gjennomsnittet glad i film, tegneserier, Mac, iPhone, duppeditter og filmmusikk.
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