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Hi people, I' m proud to announce
that the CT-GREAT SPEECHES project is now online and free download.
Thanks to all members, for theyr
creativity, patience and ispiration.
Here's is the link: http://www.ct-collective.com/index.cfm?page=music&albumid=24
and - for those of you who are
interested - a "Listening guide" to the project.
As usual, comments are
welcome.
Listening guide
to the CT-Great Speech project The aim of this
project is to compose a music to "furnish" a famous speech. A
"great speech" is a speech that has a relevant historical,
religious, political, or social content. First time I started to
think at this project was when I worked on a film about the Apollo 11 moon
landing. The interesting part of that work was to think to the speech as a part
of the music, the leading part. Nothing new compared to My life in a bush of
ghost (Brian Eno - David Byrne,
1981), but it was new for me experimenting the Eno-Byrne creative
process. I started to work on
other speeches and when I realized that it would take most part of the time i’ve
to spend in music, I open it to the CT-Collective. I'm now very proud to
announce the publishing of the CT-Great Speeches project, my first experience as
a CT-Collective project coordinator. This was an amazing
experience for many reasons: different musical approaches and speeches choosen
by the members, different ways of working on the samples and many contacts with
skilled musicians, from all around the world. It's interesting notate
that some members have choosen speeches regarding similar events or content: 2nd
world war, missions in space and spirituality are three recourring themes in
this CD.
That inspired me to
create a playlist accordingly to these three themes and here's how it works.
The CD starts with a
great dense, obscure and emotional atmosphere, where you can hear the famous W.
Churchill’s one-line quote, "we'll fight 'em on the beaches"
(1). Next songs contain the tone colored declaration
of war (2) by the italian dictator B. Mussolini, in a crescendo rock
track. It's interesting notice that both songs end with a sample (birds in the
1st, a child crying in th 2nd) that introduce a reality
context. The Meaning of God is
the original title of the speech held by M. Gandhi that appears, after an
ethereal looping textures, in Misterious Power (4),
the song i composed for this project. As it was the dark side
compared to the Gandhi message, follows the intense composition by Mike Fazio,
about the The Jim Jones Jonestown Cult Suicide Speech
(5). Moon
1969 (6) opens the edge of space missions. Just announced, like in the
JFK speech, altered by Michael Peters in an onomatopoeic way, as it seems that
you’re starting to fly ; or followed step by step, with an ear to the President
R. Reagan announcing the mission and an ear to a radio station that was
broadcasting in real time the Challenger Tragedy (7),
like in the obscure ambient song composed by Milco
Montagna. Spirit and science
converge in a unique element in the A. Hofman speech choosen by Anders Ostberg
for his drone track, about a new natural wiev of life
(8). Artificious is the
starting point for the (impossible) 17 U.S. Presidents conference (9) Norelpref created.
As an answer to all that politics talking, i’ve put Now is
the time (10) contains a part of the famous I’ve a dream speech held by
M. L. King in Washington in 1963 (10). I compose it before starting the CT
project, and even if i’ve encouraged the members to take in account this speech,
noone used it. So i put it here,
thinking it could be a good final song. At the end, i feel it
was an interesting experience where all members work hard to get the best idea,
or musical and technical approach and inspiration. Thanks to you all for your work, collaboration and patience, i’ll hope it will be a second CT-Great Speeches project to follow.
Roma, 15 gennaio 2007
Fabio Anile
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