Good evening and a Happy Halloween to all! “Into the Score” returns with Episode 14, chronicling an independent game out of the University of South California! This diamond in the rough… is called “Cloud.”
Also in this episode, we study the practice of orchestration, we stumble upon the practice of “demoscening” and we have a guest on the show! For the first time in the history of “Into the Score,” we study a game and then interview the composer of that very game! Tonight, we interview Vincent Diamante, an adjunct professor at USC and the composer for the “Cloud” project.
We study the score then discuss it with Vincent - what it was like writing it, his thoughts on the work and what is next on the horizon! This episode is one that you do not want to miss!
Exciting review about autiful Sky with Clouds and White Moon at Into the Score. Thoroughly love this interesting posts!
First: thanks for the show, great preparation.
Bunch of comments again:
I think that the Promenade in Mussorgskys “Pictures” does not relate to a place, but to the act of walking from one picture to another. Promenade in French is a nominalisation which might means either: a walk or a walk… I think, the piece is better understood this way.
I found the remark interesting on what composers can do and what they can’t because of the instruments’ limitations as it ties in with what was said of not having to deal with CPU power when you are Mozart. If I combine that with the way the “Pictures” were (supposedly) expanded by adding orchestral color, one should be surprised to see what the sound chips of the future might come up with. Then again, I said supposedly, as I think Ravel’s re-instrumentation is simplistic. It always reminds me of the sarcastic quote I once heared that went something like: “all music can be played on four [five?] instruments, only Americans need more to understand it.