#blue cathedral

[galacticturnip-art]

Storyboard animatic for my final project inspired by Jennifer Higdon's "Blue Cathedral." I fully intend for this storyboard to be a respectful visualization of her work. Just as the composer intended this piece to be a dedication to her brother who passed away, my visual interpretation of the story also deals with loss, grief, and the brief chance of being with a loved one once more.

[nightblood999]

This is me reaching out to find whoever made this. I found this picture randomly a couple years ago and I've been looking for whoever made it ever since. So if you know, let me know!

[mutsuko-ariyoshi]

blue beady cathedral

medieval cathedral window pendant church window gothic cathedral jewel

stained glass pendant - Blue CathedralDue to the nature of the work, there are sharp parts.Please keep away from small children and pets.Siz

[mikrokosmos]

Higdon - Blue Cathedral

[rhymeswithgeek]

Doc Plays: Dark Souls 2 | My First PvP

Doc Plays: Dark Souls 2 | My First PvP

Dark Souls 2 again. Join me, Doc Fluxx, as I encounter my first player enemy. It was bound to happen sooner or later. The bastard traverses dimensions and slides into my world thinking he can take me out. So what do you think? Did I have what it took to defeat him? Did I emerge triumphant or do I fall into a sobbing, bloody heap?

There’s some other stuff that happens but nothing as exhilarating…

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[madamka]

So I enter the Cathedral of Blue and I'm like:

"OHMIGAWD, HUSBANDO, YUR ALIVE!!!!"

And then die.

Dark Souls.

[abouttblank]

i really miss you guys. 

[musickingforlife]

Day 144

Sorry for the late post today, guys. First day of summer classes kind of caught me off guard.

Sorry also that this has to be split between two videos, but this is the best recording of this piece out there. Just deal with it.

This is a piece that had kind of slipped my mind until recently. For some reason, the name Jennifer Higdon came up in conversation recently, and I suddenly remembered this gem of a piece. I performed it at the Chautauqua Institution summer festival two summers ago, and I think it was the piece that convinced me that contemporary music was worth giving a chance.

Up to that point, I had never given contemporary music much of a chance. I was familiar with John Cage and Philip Glass, neither of whose music interested me in the slightest. The little contemporary music I played in my youth orchestra was difficult and not very enjoyable to play. Basically, a majority of my experiences with contemporary music were bad ones. 

But this one piece managed to change my mind about the subject. It's a relatively recent piece of music, premiered in the year 2000. And it certainly belongs to the contemporary aesthetic. But quite unlike the music of John Cage and Philip Glass--at least to me--this music has substance and meaning. And something else that really captured my imagination was the use of some unusual orchestral sounds. At the very end of this piece, you'll hear a chorus of handbells, played by most of the string section. And if you listen very closely, you might hear members of the brass section playing on pitched crystal wine glasses. 

Now before the contemporary music activists lash out at me, let me explain something. It's not necessarily that I think that John Cage's or Philip Glass' music does not have meaning. But I do think that the meaning in their music is often obscure or manufactured. Not so in this piece. First of all, the imagery of cathedrals is extremely vivid; the music at various times suggests both the grandeur and the intimacy of these majestic buildings. And there is also a pretty overt sense of emotion. It may not necessarily be clear what it is, but it is definitely there. This is what I tend to look for in music in general, and once I realized that there was such emotion in contemporary music, I became much more open to contemporary music.

I hope you enjoy this modern masterpiece, Jennifer Higdon's Blue Cathedral!