#musicality

[sameerspiritual]

Wood and skin share a single stanza: form as melody, balance as rhythm, the split an unwritten cadenza of desire.

[dramaqueen243]

I love that all the engines have the same battle cry pre the race but Momma has the I am me tune. I think it’s just a great way to show that she knows who she is and she genuinely knows she’s got what she needs as opposed to all the other engines who only have self-worth if they win

[temazos]

[itsmythang]

Prince with literally the greatest 'hold my beer' moment of all time. What a solo that was! Do ya shit, Prince.

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions. http://rockhall.com/

Rumors say: collectors still search and pay millions to find the guitar he used on this "hold my beer" moment solo Prolly one of best solos & appearances ever.

[rowanthestrange]

It’s unpopular but I love what Ruby did with Conrad. Not just in the philosophical ‘people’s internal sense of emptiness and wrongness leads them to try and validate that by projecting it on the outside world’ kind of thing, but that the Doctor is so cold and brutal to him in his speech and thinks threatening him with a worse life can change him. The cop. Versus Ruby who is not punitive, grew up with kids dragged into foster care, and knows suffering — stewed by self-infliction or not — creates suffering. And she doesn’t wish his mum was better or anything, doesn’t try and guess at the root of it, just wishes for the result. Very ‘believer in Finnish prison systems’ and actually putting that into practice, I like that in a character. “Justice” versus healing the world.

Also with Dhawan!Master we were crying out for one of the characters to notice this wasn’t just An Evil Villain™ but that it’s also a guy going through a mental health crisis, trying to communicate about the cause and the Doctor shutting that down…

Ruby’s been so well set up for a Master story.

[isagrimorie]

Christophe Beck and Michael Paraskevas breakdown Agatha Harkness’s theme music on Agatha All Along.

source: instagram

Beck: All the statements of Agatha’s theme have been leading up to this moment.

Parakskevas: This is what she came for. It was Agatha… All Along.

Beck: The main part is all over one chord and is pretty simple descending feeling and that gives it a slightly ancient eternal quality.

Paraskevas: The other thing with Agatha’s theme we carried over from her theme from WandaVision was this detuned alto flute, that we pitched down an octave. That also adds a sense of mystery, and darkness, and heartbreak.

Another presentation of Agatha’s theme was in her association with Nicky we used this detuned piano.

Beck: It has a watery quality to it. It really sounds like distant memory.

Paraskevas: In Episode 8, Agatha finally gets her power back. And we got epic, soaring strings. Episode 9, we really lean into the witchiness of Agatha and have all this really cool evocative vocal textures. Wanna try and sing it?

Beck: Absolutely not. Point your ears towards the high-plucked, dulcimer-like sound you’ll hear it’s actually outlining the whole theme.

A single theme can express such a wide range of feeling while also still connecting all these disparate parts of an entire series, and it gives it everything a wonderful cohesion.

[grimorie-dos]

Agatha All Along composers (Michael Paraskevas and Christophe Beck) break down Death | Rio's theme

source: Instagram

Michael Paraskevas: She lives within these liminal spaces, and so the sound palette for her is this really creepy blend of organic textures that are twisted and warped, so they sound alien and synthetic.

Christophe Beck: Right now, we have the distinct pleasure of breaking down Rio's theme for you.

MP: Also known as dun dun dun Death! We actually recorded myself playing Mediocre Clarinet.

CB: Slightly better than mediocre!

MP: Doubled it with a synth that created this sort of in-between combination of two worlds. We love exploring the duality of her nature, her relationship with Agatha, and this unsettling eerie sensuality as this crazy ex-girlfriend.

CB: The other side of her character is she is a reimagining of the mythical figure of death.

MP: The other side of her character is she is a reimagining of the mythical figure of death. An unstoppable force of nature. So we got these nice big drums.

CB: There's a signature sound for Rio. It's almost like a metallic, motorized type of a sound.

MP: It's actually me playing bass clarinet, but we processed it so much that you can't even tell. We recorded a string quartet playing all these harmonics that then have this airy and ethereal quality.

CB: Pitch bends are a favorite trick of mine and Michael's.

MP: And here it is all put together. So we used Rio's theme throughout the show whenever a member of the Coven dies.

CB: As an unseen but felt presence. Adds so much depth to the storytelling.

MP: We got more themes coming to you soon!