Nick Parker

Would you just shut up, you fucking weirdo whose academic work on the music of Star Wars was chosen by renowned and legendary journalist Alex Ross to share and discuss with John Williams himself!? Jesus talk about grasping for straws.

That's not true actually. The woman being name-dropped constantly is only an additional dialogue writer. There are several credited writers already, and the lead writer is someone else entirely. No idea why these clickbait extremists keep singling her out and making it out to seem that she's in charge of the whole project or something dumb like that, when in reality her job is extremely miniscule. Just one of those Mike Zeroh clickbait "theories" that will disappear in time as usual, created because small minded man children like to be angry at everything nowadays... and of course as we all know, outrage = views = YouTube revenue ($$$).

I was at the Sunday concert and it was a lot of fun. Of course, since I have finished my podcast, I knew there would be no new film music for me to hear, but that was fine. The Overture to the Oscars was new, I think? I have to look it up, but it sounded like the music that opened the 2002 Oscars when he was co-musical director. 
 
I enjoyed seeing JW looking so lively at 89 years old. I spoke with a woman after the show, and after I told her John Williams was five months away from turning 90, she said, "He looked like he was in his 70s!"
 
But the highlight of the show was meeting Eduardo Victoria, who was a cohost on my podcast for the "War of the Worlds" episode. It was the first time meeting one of my cohosts in person, and we had a wonderful pre-show conversation.
 
 

Could you throw some links my way? This is one of the few tracks that made an impression on me back in the day 
 
 
I'll give the score props for being more imaginative than Twilight Princess.

This discussion really hones in on how important it can be for composers to engage with actual players, and how unfortunate it is that so many composers now have to rely on virtual instruments. There's something truly remarkable to be said for how a player-- a specialist in their instrument--can take the broad strokes given to them by a composer, much like an actor and a director/screenwriter, and imbue the part with dimensions that a composer just can't conceive of.

This discussion really hones in on how important it can be for composers to engage with actual players, and how unfortunate it is that so many composers now have to rely on virtual instruments. There's something truly remarkable to be said for how a player-- a specialist in their instrument--can take the broad strokes given to them by a composer, much like an actor and a director/screenwriter, and imbue the part with dimensions that a composer just can't conceive of.

This discussion really hones in on how important it can be for composers to engage with actual players, and how unfortunate it is that so many composers now have to rely on virtual instruments. There's something truly remarkable to be said for how a player-- a specialist in their instrument--can take the broad strokes given to them by a composer, much like an actor and a director/screenwriter, and imbue the part with dimensions that a composer just can't conceive of.

This discussion really hones in on how important it can be for composers to engage with actual players, and how unfortunate it is that so many composers now have to rely on virtual instruments. There's something truly remarkable to be said for how a player-- a specialist in their instrument--can take the broad strokes given to them by a composer, much like an actor and a director/screenwriter, and imbue the part with dimensions that a composer just can't conceive of.

My love and lust for Villa-Lobos has coursed with no delay. My current stop in the land of this prolific composer: Floresta do Amazon, a symphonic tone poem.
 
Fans of adventure scoring from the likes of Williams and Goldsmith might get a kick out of some of this!
 
 
 
 
 
 
With some more contemplative moments thrown in as well
 
 
 
 

As others have said, it's a really cool project, and also shows how sneaky these composers had to be sometimes (re-sampling propietary instrument sounds in some cases), but overall I prefer the original more often than not.
 
The SNES was notorios difficult to write music for, using a pain-in-the-ass programming language that required lots of trial and error...I believe Kondo was still the main programmer of his music until the N64 days, where he strictly focused on the composition and let someone else handle the technical nitty gritty of compiling and implementing the music in the hardware, so it's all but guaranteed he knew the compression of the samples and adjusted accordingly. This probably played a huge part in making all these disparate sound sources sound simpático with each other, and married them using the obscene DSP (reverb/echo) that was baked into the SPC700 soundchip.
 
Interestingly, while Nintendo massively bungled the GBA sound, it actually allowed for better, cleaning sounding samples than that of the SNES'.
 
 
 
Tim Follins was a master of this, using these techniques to really push past boundaries and create music for the systems he worked on that you just don't hear anywhere else.
 
 
 

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

One of my favorite indie developers (I'm a *huge* fan of both Mutant Mudds and Xeodrifter) is putting out their own Picross game on Switch tomorrow, titled Pictooi
 

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/07/like_picross_say_hello_to_pictooi_a_new_puzzler_out_very_soon_on_switch

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

i just want to see williams go goddamn ballistic on social media when sugarland express is announced

sorry i havent posted in a while, moved out of my apartment for a box so i can afford all the nintendo games im excited for later this year. the switch has handheld mode so dont worry bout me

@Nick Parkerintroduced me to this one the other week and I was almost surprised to find it insanely fun!
...and of course I can't find the former recording for sale digitally.

Any SMT players here?
 
 
 
I can't decide if this looks silly or appropriately intense

Rule 49 of the Internet: never click on a video with a Photoshopped Rian Johnson thumbnail.

Rule 49 of the Internet: never click on a video with a Photoshopped Rian Johnson thumbnail.

Rule 49 of the Internet: never click on a video with a Photoshopped Rian Johnson thumbnail.