Detail of Beethoven's handwritten score for the "Große Fuge"

Assemblage #4

Arvo Pärt, first movement of Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles"
(performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, 04/16/09)

6.8.1999 - 6.12.2000 Leipziger Platz, Berlin (Michael Wesely)

Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak, 1948)

Basic (John McTiernan, 2003)

Hand Writing

[Adagio from Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001]

Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830's and 1840's

Often we or I or you find ourselves (or self) writing or talking about movies in terms of music. But once we've done that, we can go the other way around -- because when we can talk about, say, directing in terms of composition or performance, then we can talk about composition or performance in terms of directing. If we can think of the musical aspects of an image, then we can think about the image-like qualities of music.

Image of the Sound

[page of the score to Jenůfa]