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Hello guys, yesterday i put online my new piano tribute, a medley on the music of E.T here is the link. soon, will come 2 new tribute on star wars. it's called episode 7 for hook and episode 8 for E.T because the episode 1 2 3 4 5 6 will be exclusively done on star wars (logic !! ). episode 1 has already be done on Yoda. you can find it as well on my channel at www.youtube.com/didiermartini , including other tributes to christopher reeve, john barry, alan menken, etc ... thanks for watching and your comments.

Agreed Roald. The composer has been pushing the bounds of his range all throughout his illustrious career. He's played with synths, exercised many avant-garde techniques and explored many diverse musical styles (ex. minimalism, atonality, atmospheric stuff, etc). I don't think you'll find another composer who continues to push their boundaries like Williams does. And what does it mean to be "innovative" nowadays anyways? Williams has a unique musical voice, and that's something I really appreciate and love.

Maybe I'll catch it when it's on TV. I'm not a big fan of the franchise.

something that was definately outside the box for wiliams

Pictures from the desk of Alice! Swedish people standing in line for Hobbit tickets, in minus 6 degree Celsius cold (21.2 F for those across the pond)

I can afford this but why encourage them? The Varese DE is enough music as it is. It's a wonder why they left those 12 minutes off when it seemed like it was as complete as it could be.

Fantastic! Thanks so much for posting, Marty.

thank you very much ! (i love the Twin Peaks soundtrack ! ) the only thing that i can tell who can explain the fact that it's not as perfect as it must be or that i would be (i play this much much much better normally if i can use my ears. for example, i play usually over the moon like on the record) is that i'm an hearing trauma guy (i had an hearing accident during a jam session 18 years ago and can't listen to any sound anymore. the complete reverse of being deaf. sound become painful.) and that i record all my videos in one take without almost hearing what i played, and never listen again what i recorded because sound make pains to me. i did the video/audio editing etc by watching my hands on the video to know what i was playing and when, not by listening the recording. usually i never edit the piano recording track but E.T has been a nightmare to do, and i had to do it (that's why so some fade by moment). same, if it's not good, i can't record it again, because i don't know if it's good or not (i ask to other people to tell me if it's "ok" to publish it or not" so it's never perfect, and usually, i suffered so much to record it, that i always try to never record it again and publish it "like it is" with his mistakes or issues. E.T has been a nightmare in every step to do, 2 months of work to make the video right. usually it take me 1 month per video to make the subtitles, make the video being ok, watching the midi editor to see if i didn't do any note mistakes during the recording, asking to a friend to listen to my recording and he tells me if i played bad one passage etc and try to fix it myself or he fix the issue himself etc ... i never listened what i recorded again (that's the same thing for my others videos), sometimes i'm forced to do it, and i listen one time only after recording it so i can hear if i did very "bad mistake" during the recording and take the decition to put the take in the trashcan or not, of if i can save it. so i have absolutly no idea if it's good or not. it's a friend of mine who mix the piano, so it's his piano taste in term of reverb . i have certainly other taste in term of piano sound, but i will (maybe) never know it . so i have absolutly no idea as well if there is too much reverb or not for my taste, i'll discover it one day if i have a new healing . it's completly improvised and as i can't play piano anymore or pratice it (i didn't do it since 18 years) i take the original sheets, make a basic arrangement with only the melody and notated chords and i improvise on it by filming myself. my speakers are in an another room to where i am when i record a tune, to lower as much as possible the sound of the piano so i don't hear 90 to 95% of the sound of it when i play it. (because each sound and notes make pure pains), i almost listen and hear nothing when i record the song, the biggest issue is the pedals. without hearing the decay of a note, i do usually a lot of mistake on it, and a friend of mine or the one who do the mix usually fix it for me. i put this "technic" to an upper lever as i recorded some videos with the amp completly turned off so without listen to what i was recording at all because i did them in a time where i couldn't listen to anything at all. it's still the same, but i recorded .E.T, Hook for example at a very very low volume, because, well, sometimes, it's so much frustration to not being able to listen to what you're playing that you accept to suffer to do it. here are some examples recorded without hearing what i played at all : i always put a warning message on the videos who have been recorded this way without hearing nothing at all : here is the only video where i played it by completly hearing and listening to what i was playing normally at full volume during an healing time in 2008. (hello to Marc who accepted nicely to play on this version of marion ! ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erxxeAnG-BA thank you very much for taken the time to listen to my video and much more , commenting it, because it's unfortunatly very rare ! thank you ! you can see / listen to everything i recorded on my website here : http://www.didiermartini.com

It's really too bad that you did all that and no one bothered to comment! Thanks for sharing. You play well, and even though some of it may be 'hidden' by lots of reverb and there isn't much "space" between the notes, it still flows wonderfully. Like a slowed-down, muted concert version or something. Like E.T. performed TWIN PEAKS-style!

Just decided to play the whole stream today...what a great score!

Am I the only one here who loves Williams' music exactly for what it is..? The man has proven to be extremely diverse. From the rock/electric guitar solo in The Eiger Sanction to the choral writing of Empire Of The Sun. From the jazz pieces of his earlier scores to the ethnic Memoirs Of A Geisha. From the techno-beat sequence in A.I. to the orchestral bombast of Jurassic Park. Williams has done it all, literally. And yet we 'accuse' him of not straying too far from familiair roads. I really don't understand...

With the modern film scoring techniques surrounding us on all fronts, John Williams' music sounds unspeakably fresh.

Chuckster312 posted these in the Last Score Listened To thread.