glacially inevitable-Music Video

ic42

Back in April 2007 I wrote a slow ambient piece of music. I started by computer-generating a nice chord progression, then slowing it way way down. My thought was to make the music so achingly slow that the listener would begin anticipating the next chord change, but eventually be forced to relax and let the music move at its own glacial pace, and possibly start to enjoy all the sounds “between the notes.”

I also wanted to choose synthesizer voices that gave a cold crystalline ring to the music, especially since slow frosty bells are one of the trademark sounds of my “ic42” compositions.

And given my penchant for puns, since the piece was written in C sharp, and it was icy cold and slow, I chose the title “Icy Sharp - Glacially Inevitable”. The original piece can be heard here.
Now almost three years later, spurred on by a “2010 Reunion Challenge” at Macjams, my main music composition website/hangout http://www.macjams.com I decided to enhance and extend this piece, reworking the voices, and making a video to accompany it. Unfortunately, being in Southern California meant that I could not video-tape nearby glaciers or ice caves. So I decided to take a more abstract approach… I would build my own computer-generated ice palace instead, using my favorite computer graphics software, POV-Ray.…

To read the rest of this article, please go to my blog entry here.

YouTube by default displays these movies in a lower-quality mode, where the music and video are of so-so quality. In order to see this video with better quality audio and video, you can go to the actual movie page by clicking HERE, and then immediately choose the bigger/better quality version before it starts playing (choose the larger number “480p” in the little pop-up menu at the bottom of the movie player, as well as the two little right-angle arrows to enlarge the display.) For the rest of us impatient-types, the lower-quality version can be instantly watched right here instead.