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Explosions in SKY, Soundscapes and the concept of the contemporary sublime / sublime Remansos the picture-in-motion and composition POST.ROCK

This is a post for those who want to be in two places at once

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Truth ... took weeks with one of those old curse it is to be condemned, as to roam the seven seas "to hear a song, whenever possible, as if it were a necessity, until the tune gets inside the head and is so internalized it seems that no longer fit or import anything. First I had fallen deeply "First Breath After Coma" , but to end the spell has caused the aura of "The Only Moment We Were Alone" of Explosions in the Sky , that wonder of the group touched by the wand of the sublime, of the wonder that is hard ' Earth is not a cold dead place' (2003). While the other day came to the office full experience of catharsis sound, looking forward to the final crescendo, and turned around the block to allow time to hear the song in full, the nearly 11 minutes one should stop for nothing, because they have a compact absolute beauty. Here is this wonder:

And is that 'bed' which look set to fall, with the delicacy of a leaf back and forth, all those guitar playing mood, depositing, by a stunning describes the specific situation that is defined in the title ... is, in my view, absolutely brutal what you get this theme: a kaleidoscopic picture, honest, real, total, in that situation. 'The only time you are alone with someone', without being a cliche, is something that all of us and loaded, we were all reminded of a face, a special moment that was lost could not be .. And it seems the crescendo 8:34 of 10:14 is that shock, that last breath, that longing, that last chance ... The epilogue of the story, the moral without moralizing, the call to get an inner strength, courage to be completely honest and act with that risk and go to find the person, hoping that where there was something special will be a well, something to rescue and recover .. I can think of one film scene, 10 minutes, the time it is-and there are other issues porfundamente emotional and try to go recogiedo, "I get so compactly cover this, be as explicit in the vicinity that can exist between two people (each getting this done as he pleases, or as you make your own autobiography project). The intensity of that memory, that we sometimes intimacy with someone and then is a losing battle our insecurities, a story of missed opportunities that could be our second or other life .., the intensity of that remorse universal.

And precisely for this illustration, Explosions in the Sky reminds me of another very interesting also training: The Cinematic Orchestra , for that style of 'eternal soundtrack' , although it is hypothetical, a hypothesis, but never get to shoot the film or not a film so sublime that it can be sound track *. Cinematic Orchestra also did this experiment with "The man with the camera to shoot" of Dziga Vertov of 1929 (a whopping almost a century), which is considered the first film History of , so they have something of that something primeval genesis of trying to find parts that fit to travel in time and have those experiences in flight. Those explosions in the sky, these landscapes.

But it is not necessary to make a video clip to illustrate. Not a video-clip sublime can never do a song that is. When something is sublime -and this is the idea that I want to emphasize in this post-, or creates and settles on a new plane of reference, there is no need to use all the elements that, when it comes of a conventional, would be required. Glad you "The Only Moment We Were Alone" not have video-clip. It is loaded drama and its own light, any attempt to video-clip would have removed some of that magic that is to see clear images through music, and have channeled (and somewhat limited) look, the interior gallery landscape that everyone has. I have the feeling that, no matter how beautiful it is the video, well that is done, that was wrong too "Svefn-g-Englar" of Sigur Rós , alias "victory rose" Another issue with that category, the ability to be sublime to infinity and yet now associate your video-clip, an overly specific, with an innocence and a shudder too obvious, seeing a group of mentally retarded Dresses Angels enter a trance ... HERE you can see. A group that said we did not find the words to describe his music, which also has some great. In contrast, an example of how the video-clip, without being an essential element, can be consistent / accompanied by a successful way the tone of a subject in its size and immensity, whatever it may be, is "Joga" Björk of a total symbiosis, as a complement. Next:

By the way, talking about 'the beautiful lady', recently Txarls - does not believe in my superpowers particle displacement or my clover 4hojas - reviews the BSO of "Dancer in the Dark" composed and I Björk was thinking in terms of conflict, what was truly sublime there: if you work it, or that of Lars Von Trier at the helm, or the sum ... For the soundtrack, though it may seem that illustrations is an added element, posterior, which is not part of that 'all' it's the movie (as a direct product of circumstances: a shoot), but a later stage sound supplies, assembly, final product. As could think of every one of them, the silent movie and the soundtrack, if you could remove that little two-headed monster, "as two masterpieces that respond to this new way of beauty that is 'sublime' contemporary .

Returning to Explosions in the Sky , probably very close to the concept and the fact of the sublime because it is exclusively instrumental music, apart from the vocals (and it's true: I, every so often, I think of music as if he needed this item, see wonders like Erik Satie or Miles Davis) ... The name or business card and anticipates an image of hodgepodge, so does Einsturzende Neubauten , alias' desmoronándose'-new buildings, life and death, order and chaos, beauty and accident, between the lost and found ... which always reminds me also 'Angelus Novus' of Walter Benjamin that from the top is the ruins in its path, or this beautiful story Daedalus and Icarus . Few issues can be raised without sunburn. Not all post-rock or minimalism e have this advantage or capability, they are rather few examples.

Many bands are supported or considered an essential part of its proposal and its mise-em-scène the video projections, naming examples I can think diverse as Mazzy Star or Massive Attack (the I've seen), which can intervene directly in the poetic or the message they convey to the public, more sophisticated. Further, the lack of discourse, including the background without meaning, without content, as a mere ornament, a free resource ... What I mean is that in the midst of this obsession to illustrate all, it is interesting that some groups think and create less material, that his music is more difficult to categorize. For example, my 'theme (thankfully) doom' of Explosions already has enough destructive power and inner strength to disarm, as for the catharsis , interior, beautifully violent, is already an inevitable process; That everything is kept as a pendulum, which swings and balances between the absolute mathematical, methodical, perfect, and the most affectionate, sincere, visceral, a mixture of pure explosion of feelings.

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A context I made a reference name which is always a pleasure to bring, Michael Snow, part of these alternating currents or alternative cinema, keynote address, which may even be based on mathematical structures almost . Cycles, intervals, stages, sequences, new tempralidades, times and tempos (most issues Explosions in the sky allude to subjective time units), turning points, however, organicity, something whimsical, random ; narrative of the image, logical, theoretical, complex ...

Combinations are endless and the film-at least that can be accessed- occupies 99% of them: conventional audiovisual narration, ie the image and sound accompaniment simultaneously, without gaps or cracks .. However, the other unconnected stories that regardless of the concurrency have been some beauties that in any case are more difficult to digest. Many times when referring to this type of work, full of interest, with unpredictable structures and progressions ... (Which normally can be seen in museums) instead of frame, absolutely predictable patterns- as' Structural Film and Expanded Cinema ' or movies, taking formats and structures in the range of conventional, as "Adaptation (The Orchid Thief), of Spike Jonze , or " PI , faith in chaos "of the Darren Aronofsky at his best, opt for treatment or organic views are seen under a different plane of reality, raising questions purely natural, organic, the violence inherent in nature subject change, boundless issues that fall outside of our reach ... generating impulses, which is also seen in those long compositions running through mood cycles of Explosions in the Sky .