Legal Commentary

Koyaanisqatsi (and Other Media)

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Via Orin Kerr, I learn that Koyaanisqatsi, the movie version of one of my better-liked and more-played CD’s is now available on YouTube - all 1:26:04 of it!

I like Philip Glass’s music. But I’ve rarely gone for visual pairings with either Glass or Eno or other music of that modernist, and sometimes minimalist, sort. I know that Koyaanisqatsi came into being as a film score, but to me it’s always been a musical composition deracinated from film. I liked Einstein on the Beach when I saw it at its first revival at BAM (even though it was far from new, a decent fraction, maybe 10%, of the audience walked out after the first part, which amazed me); that alone has been a somewhat harder to listen to without the visual, perhaps because it is so long and has so much repetition and near-repetition.

But anyway, something to watch as soon as I have a spare hour and half. Whenever that is: We got a TV for the first time about a year ago, and I though, that’s it, we’ll be TV zombies, our intellectual lives are over. Hasn’t worked out that way: I hardly ever watch it except when folding laundry, and the very occasional taped episodes of Stewart or Colbert.

Although, to be fair, the hard drive on the DVR is filling up with old movies and new episodes of things I plan to watch Real Soon Now ™.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on April 19, 2009 (boomark / email).