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Part 24 of Vids
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2013-02-24
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Vid: Always

Summary:

A mixed consort of soft instruments. Premiered at Escapade 2013.

Notes:

Many thanks to Yao, Kouredios, Ellinor, and Laura Shapiro for beta and general cheerleading.

 

I've always loved this track. It is weird and beautiful and strange. It combines found audio (from a variety of sources, including Raymond Baxter witnessing the first live transatlantic transmission of a tv image, and WH Auden reading lines from one of his own poems) with singing and with instruments. I believe the string instrument on this track is a cello, not a violin, but it still made me think of Sherlock, and so does the track's lyrical oddity, which feels to me like a good match for Sherlock's particular brand of strange brilliance.

Given the show's frequent use of onscreen text, I knew I wanted to play with using words as a design element and a communicative element in the vid. I hope y'all enjoy!

Work Text:

(Password: softinstruments)

Be Good To Them Always (highly edited -- the original track is 4:51)

Here we are
Here we are
We are antici--
There it is! There it is!
That's the picture.
You, you see it for yourself.
There it is.
It's a man.
There it is.
With, ah --

You know, I simply cannot understand people.
Oh, how sadly we mortals are deceived by our own imagination.
This is not real life, this is for us aleatoric television.
A mixed consort of soft instruments.

A culture is no better than its woods.
The feeling of being connected with the past.
Look at it this way: you may fall and break your leg.
And so, one leg is shorter than the other: can nothing more be done?

 

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