Vangelis interview

[CS_TBL]

Have you people seen this yet?



Somehow I'm not completely sure how much ouzo influence there is in all that mumbo jumbo.. it'd be a weird debate with him on VSE, that's what I'm sure of..

[OntarioHydro]

Cool video thanks for posting. I liked what he was saying about how music should drive the composer and not the other way around.

[OntarioHydro]

The interviewer wasn't very good I want to see Nardwuar vs. Vangelis

[tomorrowstops]

Somehow I'm not completely sure how much ouzo influence there is in all that mumbo jumbo.. it'd be a weird debate with him on VSE, that's what I'm sure of..

Ahaha YES!

[Ned Bouhalassa]

I disagree about the ouzo, he's just older and probably been through a lot, like many of us born before the 80s...

He's one of my musical heroes, but it's sad/sobering to see him bitter, and not enjoying today's music.

[CS_TBL]

The point is: if you ask him how he creates music, then he could be answering the right thing: "I'm using specially constructed devices that allow to me to improvise/create on-the-fly and control many keyboards at the same time. Also I'm using specially constructed devices to quickly choose sounds (see Mythodea)." A more mild answer would have been: "I use a lot of improvisation and performance technology, created for me." But what does he actually answer? "I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise." (Direct booklet) Hail ouzo!

Make no mistake though, I have probably all his albums, and I rate him very highly. But I'd rather see him being to the point about it, rather than all this talking behind curtains of weird things no one understands. While I don't really like the recent (post-Chronologie) Jarre, he's at least rational about his instruments and workflow.

[OntarioHydro]

He's just a believer that music is universal and inherently powerful.. creating it is more than simply improvising and utilizing custom made technology.. you have to open up your mind and the music just comes to you. I get what he's saying and feel this way about music sometimes... that I don't actually compose anything it already existed in potential and I'm just allowing it to flow through me. It goes back to what he says about music driving the composer instead of the composer driving the music.

[analogholic]

Have you people seen this yet?

Somehow I'm not completely sure how much ouzo influence there is in all that mumbo jumbo.. it'd be a weird debate with him on VSE, that's what I'm sure of..

I disagree,

I think that most of what Vangelis said is some of the most sane and intelligent stuff I´ve heard in a long time.
The guy is not for everyone, that´s for sure.

[iphoenix]

That is excellent, thanks so much for sharing this.

[pflosi]

While I really do appreciate his talk about the cultural industry (commodification of arts, alienation of artistic production, etc.), I don't see how playing at a spectacular cheesy event in an absolute monarchy will foster peace, education and science... Ok, they have a nice theather there (which Greece cannot afford ATM), but how is this more than simple panem et circenses?

Funny how the interviewer is totally not up to it though