The only bad thing about Philip Glass is that one day he will leave us. May that not be for a very long time!! He is America’s finest composer. Up there with Arvo Part as the world’s greatest alive today.
very happy to see this in 2021 , with the children so beautiful around a serious conversation . funny , and graceful like Philip Glass trying to find out where it all came from / lovely .
Sometimes I work to silence because I must focus. But there are times when I like to play something, and often it’s difficult to focus. Philip Glass takes that difficulty away.
Interesting... Philip Glass is a very prolific artist. This interview is very valuable to enter the mindset of someone who has devoted themselves to Music Composition. There is so much to learn from these rare individuals! How is a Composer born into life? Are they born? Are they made? How does one decide to write ten symphonies for the next 10 or 20 years of one's life? How does one approach the art, the living art of Music, and gradually develop their own craft for years and years, for an entire lifetime? What makes an artist? And how did the people receive Phillip Glass's work? Was he always well-received? Or did he face adversity? Did he challenge his audience? How does someone like Phillip Glass gain prominence as a composer?
In 1986 New Sounds (WNYC-FM hosted by John Schaefer) played Robert Ashley's The Backyard. Fortunately found the vinyl record later at Bleecker Bob's NYC. ruclips.net/video/QpHjWjNSL_k/видео.html
Love that Allen and Heath shirt the soundman is wearing. This is a pretty clean recording of the PGE! Edit: Apparently PGE used two Allen and Heath 248 mixers as seen in the last half of this video and I'm pretty sure those microphones are all Shure SM57s with wind screens over them.
I love Glass' work His music is medicinal also his spirit-sibling Terry Riley (who i believe was the artist that inspired the young Brian Eno to become the musician he would become) - Everything by them is worth listening to!
this is so vluable, this is so amazing... art is the bird on the horizon sitting on a fence singning for us at his own expsnes, as Dylan said, this is part of it and golden
This is an episode of 'Music with Roots in the Aether', a 'television opera' by Robert Ashley who is the interviewer. In each episode, Ashley interviews a modern composer in a constructed environment or 'landscape' for about an hour, then another hour is dedicated to the composer performing one of their pieces. They're all this weird: in the program with Pauline Oliveros, she is interviewed whilst being done up by a masked beauty stylist. At the same time, a woman reclines on a set of cushions placed across an open grand piano.
I'm sure the interviewer chap must be a musician himself? He's pretty discursive, halting and awkward in style for him to be a straight journalist (though he does a decent job in his own way) ......Anyone know who this other fella is? - Any info is appreciated, thanks 😸_👍
the setting of this interview is so surreal
Pure gold, all of this. The kind of youtube video you want to download and save on a hard drive in case it ever disappears.
young philip glass is cute as heck
Kinda looks like B.J. Novak
The only bad thing about Philip Glass is that one day he will leave us. May that not be for a very long time!! He is America’s finest composer. Up there with Arvo Part as the world’s greatest alive today.
You are absolutely right. Philip Glass is one of the Greatest Composer in history of Music.
This interview is a work in itself haha it is so surreal, they don't even really talk about important stuff
His music is perfect to listen to while painting or drawing. This interview was a good find.
Yes. I agree. I paid and draw, I work always with Philip Glass's music.
I ❤ Philip Glass. I also love everything about this whole thing, the camera is performance art itself.
Kudos to the lovely audio mix of this - Philip on the left ear, interviewer on the right
I love the long format of this, this is a podcast before podcasts existed.
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very happy to see this in 2021 , with the children so beautiful around a serious conversation . funny , and graceful like Philip Glass trying to find out where it all came from / lovely .
Genius camera movements and background performance
Sometimes I work to silence because I must focus. But there are times when I like to play something, and often it’s difficult to focus. Philip Glass takes that difficulty away.
lol There is a hypnotizing awkwardness to this interview exacerbated by background noises/voices which were not controlled.
Interesting... Philip Glass is a very prolific artist. This interview is very valuable to enter the mindset of someone who has devoted themselves to Music Composition. There is so much to learn from these rare individuals! How is a Composer born into life? Are they born? Are they made? How does one decide to write ten symphonies for the next 10 or 20 years of one's life?
How does one approach the art, the living art of Music, and gradually develop their own craft for years and years, for an entire lifetime? What makes an artist? And how did the people receive Phillip Glass's work? Was he always well-received? Or did he face adversity? Did he challenge his audience? How does someone like Phillip Glass gain prominence as a composer?
What’s there not to love about every element of this interview. I was blessed enough to catch Glass twice in Stockholm in 2019.
Well, there's the abysmal camera work that makes you want to shoot yourself.
This is great piece of Art itself
In 1986 New Sounds (WNYC-FM hosted by John Schaefer) played Robert Ashley's The Backyard. Fortunately found the vinyl record later at Bleecker Bob's NYC. ruclips.net/video/QpHjWjNSL_k/видео.html
Love that Allen and Heath shirt the soundman is wearing. This is a pretty clean recording of the PGE!
Edit: Apparently PGE used two Allen and Heath 248 mixers as seen in the last half of this video and I'm pretty sure those microphones are all Shure SM57s with wind screens over them.
The iconic Phillip Glass...my muse!
So gooooood
Wow, live 12 Parts right after it was written! Played slower than on later recordings.
The interviewer is Robert Ashley. Listen, children.
Thanks!
Interesting description of the American Working Class. How the world has changed.
You all need to look up the interviewer, Robert Ashley, right now. Listen to Private Parts and Automatic Writing.
I want that shirt.
that shirt is the best thing about the film.
This is an excellent example of how working class artists are only embraced by the mainstream if they do NOT challenge systems of oppression.
I love Glass' work
His music is medicinal
also his spirit-sibling Terry Riley (who i believe was the artist that inspired the young Brian Eno to become the musician he would become)
- Everything by them is worth listening to!
this is so vluable, this is so amazing... art is the bird on the horizon sitting on a fence singning for us at his own expsnes, as Dylan said, this is part of it and golden
Man is a genius.
wonderful seeing you again mr glass :)
Very interesting.
Whoa! He had a place he wrote music at in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia! I had no idea. Very neat. (37:52)
Such a good interview, but what the holy hell is with the camera movements & the awkward kids crawling around during this? Lol
Masonic stuff. It's hard to explain but it's pretty dark actually.
This is an episode of 'Music with Roots in the Aether', a 'television opera' by Robert Ashley who is the interviewer. In each episode, Ashley interviews a modern composer in a constructed environment or 'landscape' for about an hour, then another hour is dedicated to the composer performing one of their pieces. They're all this weird: in the program with Pauline Oliveros, she is interviewed whilst being done up by a masked beauty stylist. At the same time, a woman reclines on a set of cushions placed across an open grand piano.
@@codenamebeats No new Taxils.
This is completely nutso...
@@minimaleffort8780 I wonder if Robert Ashley ever interviewed himself. He was/is a composer, too.
His early works really sounds like it's Chinese festival music
shout out to the stones and keith jarret
I have noooooooo recollection of watching this video at all. But apparently I was here before. ❤❤❤
wow this is just before he got wider recognition for einstein, and was collecting unemployment just a few months before.
Remember when he played drums for the Black Keys?
lol you nailed it!
1:15:52 TRAIN!
The guy who filmed this should not be allowed near a camera. I can't tell wtf was going through his head half the time.
$6,800 A year plus what they can pick up from gigs in SOHO or whatever....
I'm sure the interviewer chap must be a musician himself?
He's pretty discursive, halting and awkward in style for him to be a straight journalist (though he does a decent job in his own way) ......Anyone know who this other fella is?
- Any info is appreciated, thanks 😸_👍
Is he saying street jobs or straight jobs?
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