http://www.sitesakamoto.com/chainmusic/
It's 26:43 min long. You need quicktime.
It's above all CURIOUS(still listening). I'm doing a live commentary. I'm not sure how they did it, why there're so many composers invovled. Right now i'm into second verse, the first verse cleanly cut with a door-banging sound. And closely follows is this chanting 'we're going around the world' set against electrical signals. The first verse is filled with bird hummings, echoes, temple bells. I feel as if being transported back to a quiet monastry, yet not one on earth, somewhere floating in space, walking, stopping, musing, looking back and losing it. I wonder if you can call it surrealistic + minimalistic + futuristic music genre.
Right now into 9:33 - end of 2nd verse, interspersed with windy noise, sounds like someone breathing too loudly into microphones.
3rd verse - new age, gentle female voice, spiced up with sounds of raindrops, simple guitar chords, random piano keys, ohhhh, and a COUGH!!! now a 'Hmm'.
Let me say this straight, I'm sure this bunch of composers involved in this 'project' are having great fun doing it. They feel like spoiling the peace with a cough, a 'hmm', or noisy radio buzz and what not, and I can practically picture them laughing about it in the studio as a concoction of sounds and effects are mingled together to give this super beyond age hybrid. It's cool no doubt. Same way as a bunch of itchy fingered writers gather together for tea and casually speak about the lives of those imaginary faces. A says Tom should cry. B says Tom should laugh after he's done with crying. C says he then should cry again. This sweet lunacy.
15:35 4th verse - a collection of impossible sounds. followed by wailing violin. Repeated chords, 10 times over, with acceleration. Reminds me of a philip glass piece jady sent me. In the background, what sounds like a purring engine and more cacophanous string chords suddenly give way to silence. Reprise. Now a crippled melody. Strings puckled. (Oh i sooo love puckling sounds). Now where is it leading? Am I walking in the temple again?
Whispers of electrical signals. Thousands of firing neurons. Rap tempo. A string of minor keys, mixed with more household sounds. The buzz is getting louder.
I wonder how they're going to end it. One minute on counting.
It's quiet. Despite the noises that tickle a thousand secret senses.
And so it goes back to where it started. And disappeared.
Surreal. (techno)
Well, I was just googling 'ryuichi sakamoto' and bumped into this link on his official website. Wow this's such a cool site. Now i know why the name 'chain music'. It's indeed a music marathon. With new contributions updated periodically. Here's the biography of the amazing composer http://www.sitesakamoto.com/data/biography.html I'm only familiar with his work in 'The Last Emperor', 'The Railroad Man' and 'Merry X'mas Mr. Lawrence'.
And here's the sony classic page http://www.ryuichi-sakamoto.com/
There're some short music clips playing as you enter the main page.
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