course in cultural studies at Berkley reported to the world media that the audience thought that was the first piece of music but I can tell you this entire field as a philosopher I'vediscovered is fraught with fallacious um ethnography in fact
and so Vach had in his hands a new technology and a new operating system and what he came out with was this incredible piece of music and this is by the way in his own hand just you can see the kind of sweep and flow uh that goes through the music and the it strikes me that we need this today we actually need
I hated his fussy little moustache and his stupid tweed jacket. This piece of music is 98 years old. I could hear my voice growing shrill.
that it's not just the intro. Every piece of music all the way throughout the film is based on different parts of that Edith Piaf track, either sped up or slowed down to different tempos. And he just took those elements, took it, sped it up, slowed it down, and then composed the music for the film based on that.
And it's fantastic. And I remember wearing a haptic vest, really. And there was this piece of music that was being fed through the vest. And I could not recognize what that piece of music was.
But then, of course, once the internet came into play, and of course, people could see lots of different people on YouTube playing their interpretation of a piece of music , the listening then changed because they could see people play and hear them play as well. But then not have the bodily experience, that physical experience.
And quite early on, there was an important realization that, yeah, there is the kind of happiness you get when you get a piece of chocolate or hear a beautiful piece of music for the first time, or if you're a mouse, get a piece of cheese. It's the hedonic happiness.
It's how do you actually build the confidence? And there's a piece of music that I use myself in the various conferences and presentations I do that just helps me visualize doing it, thinking it through, or even when I'm planning what I'm going to talk about.
And so I am living in 2018. I look at this piece of music for the first time and I see a couple of things, right? I see some German on top.
But this is the score that-- This is my score to help me analyze the data that I had written down and to create a piece of music . So these are all the measures.
And that's why any time I had a gig in my office, something that I knew he could do, we will tell him to write this jingle. Write this piece of music . And then we will pay him.
And it's a wonderful thing to write a lyric because you have this prompt. And it was a piece of music that was so suggestive of what it had to be about.
Resolve our kids of streperousness. Buy that piece of music . And that's great. But there are some times when we do everything we can.
And to explain, going back to the Picasso, if that were a piece of music , and you were to see the original work, and it would be a song, and it comes out as a piece of music today, and you would be interested in it, and you would buy it, you would download it, or you would stream it.
And I hope that people look at that and they see oh, here's a guy believing himself-- believing in himself. But a piece of music or a concert you go see or something can, like, just make everything feel good again.
And you have to remember, a lot of this music was written for dialogue scenes, to accompany action, and it was never meant to be played by itself as a piece of music . But a lot of people enjoy that because it's their hobby, they're a fan, they like that.
of the same piece of music .
can listen to that piece of music and be taken to that place.
So this one piece of music , but performed twice.
exploring what makes the piece of music tick and so in that Spirit um as you've
you felt at the time. So even if you play a piece of music 100 times, you're always starting from that clean sheet with it. And you're not trying to remember what you did before.
And there was this piece of music that was being fed through the vest. And I could not recognize what that piece of music was. And it was just a kind of mishmash of feeling, really.
is really elastic to any kind of possibility. So when you learn a piece of music , and you spent time with that piece of music , you then go to an orchestra whom you've never met before. You have never met the conductor before.
Because very often as musicians, we zoom in to the minutest detail. And I think with a piece of music , it depends on the kind of piece.
Because very often as musicians, we zoom in to the minutest detail. And so we created this piece of music called "Sounds of Science." And so we look back at 10,000 years' worth of man-developed
And that is a beautiful piece of music called "Tyler's Suite." It was commissioned by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus and six other gay men's causes.
And it was so shocking to me that I could so easily understand and relate to a piece of music that was written by Bach 300 years ago, and that I could play that piece of music on stage and you will feel what I felt. To me, that's really cool. I mean, I don't think any science can really explain that sort of lineage or that sort of streamline
And this human being was probably writing this music because he was inspired by his surroundings, his emotions, and all these things. So it's not just a piece of music . It's someone's soul, right?
And it just so happened that this piece of music , written by a composer, Carmen Moore, it just so happened to fall into my lap.
When we hear a wonderful piece of music , when we see and read an astounding poem.
When you look at a piece of music , it's like a melody is created.
So does this remind you of any piece of music you know of?
what is that thing that makes this piece of music extraordinary?
And so he was really claiming that piece of music , that musical idea that was really popular and appropriating it for jazz and really putting his spin
That, to me, when I heard it again recently, it just gripped me. I just love that little piece of music . As far as a visual goes, in "Star Wars,"
So we want to share this little piece of music with you.
And it's a great piece of music .
And it's an amazing piece of music .
and present an arresting idea about some piece of music on broadcast television
But it's also been a journey of bringing the audience with the repertoire, bringing the audience with the instruments. It hasn't been about you must like this piece, because it's a contemporary piece of music . I've had to learn and get to know that piece in the same way that an audience have.
I think that's how you create a piece of music that stands up to repeated listens.
He will produce a dish and play a certain piece of music that it's inspired by.
And then when it came to writing this piece of music , I kind of knew what I wanted the motion in the melody to be
So it's three angles to the same piece of music .
So if you have a vision as a composer for a piece of music , film music is not for you.
And now I'm going to play to you a piece of music .
And the task here is it's a hybrid piece of music and see if it reminds you of anything.
the well-tempered City uh and that became the organizing theme for the book um so a history of that in and this was uh uh it came from an amazing piece of music that Bach wrote called The Well tempered clavier comes in two versions book one and book two you should listen to it Bach had an amazing aspiration and that was to take
And it's a wonderful thing to write a lyric because you have this prompt. And so I didn't want to write it to a piece of music but I knew that David wanted a song.
You know, when a piece of music can move you that way.