breadvelvet
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congrats breadvelvet u responsible fukc
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Post by breadvelvet on Sept 11, 2015 19:47:20 GMT
added about twenty films to the doc, this is actually a lot of fun!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2015 19:49:07 GMT
dont link it was mentioned but alot of clips from the film 'prometheus' were used in the video
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a_M
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Post by a_M on Sept 11, 2015 23:50:40 GMT
love how quickly this has turned into PC Music film club
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Post by sullivantoph on Sept 12, 2015 0:14:39 GMT
Hey, for those who are into helping the list at google docs ( docs.google.com/document/d/1YlxtLGUPd8wYK0oKj84XEKgRu6fWn9KxUdS-qD-xPq8/edit for those who missed it), the best thing you can do is screenshot one of the clips you don't know, upload it to images.google.com, and it will typically grab it for you. It's super helpful on those environmental shots. Just in case anyone has massive amounts of time and boredom.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 0:52:59 GMT
i identified some too, and specified some marvel movies
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Post by skinnymctoothpick on Sept 12, 2015 3:42:08 GMT
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Post by cheeseburger on Sept 12, 2015 17:22:51 GMT
Could use some airhorns tbh.
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Post by skinnymctoothpick on Sept 12, 2015 20:00:39 GMT
Could use some airhorns tbh. sorry I'll remember to put that in the MLG remix
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Post by raindro on Sept 12, 2015 20:53:25 GMT
Any music theory wizards here? I wanna know this chord progression. It's soooo good!
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breadvelvet
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congrats breadvelvet u responsible fukc
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Post by breadvelvet on Sept 12, 2015 21:38:01 GMT
Any music theory wizards here? I wanna know this chord progression. It's soooo good! not a wizard, but i've listened to enough lil b to know it sounds like a typical ii-I(1st inversion)-IV-V progression starts out something like dmin7-C/E-F6-G, then transposes 3 semitones up to fmin7-Eb/G-Ab6-Bb then at around 4:48-ish it has this really nice change to Ab-Bb-gmin(?)-Ab chords might be a tiny bit off because i don't have an actual keyboard by me but that's what it sounds like imo
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Post by spencerzsz on Sept 13, 2015 0:14:02 GMT
Any ideas as to what IDL means? I really love the idea that IDL stands for "In Digital Life". I did find, when forgetting to type in "Life Sim" after the title, that IDL is the acronym for Interactive Data Language, which is the programming language used for Data Analysis... from wiki:
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Post by lost in the file system on Sept 13, 2015 21:30:46 GMT
AG dropped this at Pop Cube and I was so blown away by the fact that the the song is mostly changes in timbre. The video adds so much emotion. PC Music, contemporary culture, EDM, film, etc feel so saturated and that is something the video represents to me -- the synthesis of different forms and the fact that life keeps building on itself, becoming more and more 'complex'. That saturation is not negative; this content is all extremely powerful and expressive. It reminds me of Spring Breakers in some ways, which I saw a shot of in the video.
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Post by wuchi on Sept 13, 2015 22:19:55 GMT
This song has been floating around for a while. The first time I can remember hearing it was at the beginning of SOPHIE's set at Oberlin College, almost exactly a year ago, and it blew my mind. The way that it continuously builds while increasing the tension and anticipation throughout is astonishing. It manages to be completely satisfying without resorting to the cliché of a drop, but by reaching higher and higher towards something beyond itself. Many other PC Music songs use this trick, such as Snow Globe and Bronze, but this distills the essence of that formula to the bare essential of a bubbling, effervescent arpeggio. In the Tank Magazine interview, A.G. Cook talks about his fondness for Ukraine's 2013 Eurovision entry, "Gravity": "It's the same few chords throughout, but they keep moving them around to create different sections – it just feels like it's infinitely escalating, really clever." Whether Life Sim has A.G. involvement or not, this kind of approach is apparent throughout PC Music's body of work. The video adds so much emotion. PC Music, contemporary culture, EDM, film, etc feel so saturated and that is something the video represents to me -- the synthesis of different forms and the fact that life keeps building on itself, becoming more and more 'complex'. That saturation is not negative; this content is all extremely powerful and expressive. Interesting interpretation. Definitely goes along with PC Music's interest in mashing high-concept artistry and complexity with the most banal aspects of popular entertainment. Seeing all of these shots arranged together out of context had a powerful affect on me I didn't expect. It uses all of these short clips to create its own HD universe that makes the world look beautiful. I'm still not entirely sure what to make of the video as to what it's trying to say about culture and HD or if it should even really matter beyond the visceral emotional reaction. I just wish it would never end.
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digitalmuscle
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Post by digitalmuscle on Sept 14, 2015 0:34:15 GMT
AG dropped this at Pop Cube and I was so blown away by the fact that the the song is mostly changes in timbre. The video adds so much emotion. PC Music, contemporary culture, EDM, film, etc feel so saturated and that is something the video represents to me -- the synthesis of different forms and the fact that life keeps building on itself, becoming more and more 'complex'. That saturation is not negative; this content is all extremely powerful and expressive. It reminds me of Spring Breakers in some ways, which I saw a shot of in the video. YES! great connection. i remember almost being reduced to tears when i was in the theatre watching spring breakers and realized that the music in the final shootup was an orchestral reprise of "scary monsters & nice sprites" a lot of the reason i was so moved comes from things you mention here: the way timbre and context affect the emotional impact of music, the power of trans-medium & high-low culture syntheses. i love the overall direction of art and entertainment in this post-internet age because, more than ever, everything is weighted with context upon context while simultaneously being stripped of context entirely. and this is why i love pc music; like yeah, there's a lot to the kitschy appeal in the trance pastiche of "beautiful" or the musical theatre topline of "snow globe", but so much of the magic in these songs also comes from the pc crew's willingness commit wholeheartedly to their influences, no matter how corny, and present their inherent beauty. the jessie j sample in "laplander" is manipulated beyond recognition, but when easyFun reveals its source in "domino" remix they allow us to make our own decision about whether that cultural transaction is meaningful or meaningless or both or neither. i think thats wonderful! & i think the "idl" video perfectly captures this very idea when it splices all these movie trailers together to create a self-consciously generic, artificial narrative that nonetheless reveals a comforting universality in the emotional beats that humans are drawn to, whether they come from an iranian art film or a superhero block buster. none of it is real and all of it is so real. it's life and it's sim. lol im embarrassing myself
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digitalmuscle
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Post by digitalmuscle on Sept 17, 2015 6:28:56 GMT
made a midi if anyone wants it. i think it's at least 90% accurate. the only parts i'm not sure about are those chords that start in the background around 4:00 and those brassy synth stabs a lil while after that, but i at least got the gist of them. lmk if there are any mistakes! Attachments:IDL.mid (22.99 KB)
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