BOING BOING PREMIERES NEW TRACK & VIDEO BY MY GREAT GHOST CREATED WITH SCOTT SNIBBE-DESIGNED PHILIP GLASS REMIX APP
REWORK APP NOW AVAILABLE FOR iPHONE AND iPAD
REWORK_Philip Glass remixed ALBUM OUT NOW ON ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC/ERNEST JENNING RECORD CO./THE KORA RECORDS
FEATURES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BECK, TYONDAI BRAXTON, AMON TOBIN, CORNELIUS, DAN DEACON, JOHANN JOHANNSSON AND MORE
Boing Boing is premiering the Satan's Pearl Horses-directed video for a new track from NYC-based group My Great Ghost.
The track was created using the new REWORK app from developer Snibbe Studio (creator of Björk's Biophilia app), available now for iPad and iPhone. Watch the video below.
My Great Ghost "Glass Machine" video:
The new REWORK app includes interactive visualizations corresponding to 11 of the remixed songs with visuals that range from futuristic three-dimensional landscapes to shattered multicolored crystals and vibrating sound waves. The app also includes an interactive "Glass Machine" that allows users to create their own music inspired by Philip Glass' early works by simply sliding two discs around side-by-side, generating polyrhythmic counterpoints between the two melodies.
"This is a way for people who don't have the experience of manipulating music material to see what it's like," says Glass. The app is available via the iTunes store and more info can be found at the Snibbe Studio website.
Watch a video tour of the app; REWORK_ App (Philip Glass Remixed):
The idea for REWORK, a two-disc or 2xLP set of remixed Philip Glass works, came together during a conversation between Philip and his friend and new collaborator Beck. The pair recruited producer Hector Castillo (David Bowie, Björk, Lou Reed) to help assemble a collection of remixes of Glass' works by a list of critically acclaimed artists including Beck himself, Tyondai Braxton, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Dan Deacon, Johann Johannsson, Nosaj Thing, Memory Tapes, Silver Alert, Pantha du Prince, My Great Ghost and Peter Broderick. The album is out now on Orange Mountain Music/Ernest Jenning Record Co./The Kora Records and is available at Philip Glass' website as well as via the iTunes store and Amazon.
The remix project joins in the celebration of Glass' 75th birthday season, which features performances and events across the globe encompassing every facet of the composer's decades-long career as a preeminent American composer - opera, chamber music, orchestra music, dance, theatre works and more.
Glass' 75th birthday season began with the inaugural Days and Nights Festival in Carmel Valley, CA - curated by Glass himself - and has featured the first performance of a Glass piece by the New York Philharmonic; the world premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 9 by Bruckner Orchestra Linz in Austria before the symphony’s American premiere at Carnegie Hall; and a week of events curated by the composer for the Park Avenue Armory’s Tune-In Music Festival. Glass’ 75th birthday season goes on to include the return of his first and most revered opera Einstein on the Beach and concludes with the World Premiere of The Perfect American, a new opera about the death of Walt Disney, in early 2013.
For more than five decades, Glass continues to be at the forefront of contemporary music and art. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects, creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble, and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts, and the landmark opera, Einstein on the Beach for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson.
Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Several new works have been unveiled, including Book of Longing, a collaboration with Leonard Cohen (2007, Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity) and Appomattox (2007, San Francisco Opera), an opera about the end of the Civil War.
REWORK_Philip Glass remixed
Disc 1
1. Music in Twelve Parts, Part 1–My Great Ghost
2. Rubric–Tyondai Braxton
3. Knee 1–Nosaj Thing
4. Alight Spiral Snip–Dan Deacon
5. Warda’s Whorehouse Inside Out Version–Amon Tobin
6. Etoile Polaire: Little Dipper–Silver Alert
7. Floe '87–Memory Tapes
8. Opening From Glassworks–Cornelius
Disc 2
1. NYC: 73-78–Beck
2. Protest–Johann Johannsson
3. Mad Rush Organ–Pantha du Prince
4. Island–Peter Broderick
Photo credit: Nikolai Antonie and Jay Sansone
"Glass Machine" on boingboing.net
My Great Ghost Official Website
Philip Glass rework Official Website