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Fabio, I listened to this project a number of times through the other day and really enjoyed it! Best regards, Ted Killian On Jan 20, 2007, at 11:47 PM, fabio anile wrote: > > Hi people, I' m proud to announce that the CT-GREAT SPEECHES project > is now > online and free to 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. > > > Fabio > http://xoomer.alice.it/eterogeneo/ > www.myspace.com/eterogeneo > > > > 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 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 third song contains a Michael Moore speech, about the U.S. > President G. > Bush feeling like God (3); M. Frank had built a very rithmic and > straordinarly accessible track. > 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. > Fabio Anile >