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Apr 23, 2010 20:15:51 GMT
Post by judgedeadd on Apr 23, 2010 20:15:51 GMT
I was listening to some music, and it struck me how it befitted today's comic:
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Apr 23, 2010 20:51:44 GMT
Post by Per on Apr 23, 2010 20:51:44 GMT
There are several tracks and ambiences from the factory levels of Beyond Good & Evil that would fit the power station (pre- and post-alert).
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Apr 24, 2010 3:25:35 GMT
Post by warrl on Apr 24, 2010 3:25:35 GMT
I was listening to some music, and it struck me how it befitted today's comic:Reminded me of something from a D&D forum...
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Apr 24, 2010 14:05:06 GMT
Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 24, 2010 14:05:06 GMT
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Post by Per on Apr 24, 2010 17:06:19 GMT
You may want to check out the soundtrack to K-Pax by Edward Shearmur if you haven't heard it.
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Apr 28, 2010 23:19:10 GMT
Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 28, 2010 23:19:10 GMT
I just found out about a Polish band named Vivo. Polish folk music, I guess? Really nice stuff.
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Apr 29, 2010 1:11:54 GMT
Post by Tobu Ishi on Apr 29, 2010 1:11:54 GMT
The entire soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I listened to it on loop while I archive binged Gunnerkrigg for the first time, and it's become more associated with GKC than with that movie for me, since I've never actually seen HP:PoA. ( Aunt Marge's Waltz is for silly shenanigans; A Window To The Past is Antimony(and Surma)'s theme; Forward To Time Past is the Court doing creepy technological things; Apparition on the Train is the theme for Zimmingham, etc...) Think if GKC ever becomes a film, they could get John Williams to do the score?
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Apr 29, 2010 10:54:47 GMT
Post by todd on Apr 29, 2010 10:54:47 GMT
The entire soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I listened to it on loop while I archive binged Gunnerkrigg for the first time, and it's become more associated with GKC than with that movie for me, since I've never actually seen HP:PoA. ( Aunt Marge's Waltz is for silly shenanigans; A Window To The Past is Antimony(and Surma)'s theme; Forward To Time Past is the Court doing creepy technological things; Apparition on the Train is the theme for Zimmingham, etc...) Think if GKC ever becomes a film, they could get John Williams to do the score? As long as it doesn't evoke "Harry Potter" too much and further encourage the "imitation" claims....
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Apr 29, 2010 19:20:52 GMT
Post by Mr Pitchfork on Apr 29, 2010 19:20:52 GMT
Man, I think we shouldn't be afraid of a buncha gloopy sods making ironic, illiterate observations. Let 'em go and we can ignore them and be the wiser.
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Apr 29, 2010 23:08:04 GMT
Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 29, 2010 23:08:04 GMT
Not to mention it's John friggin' Williams. Did anyone say his Harry Potter soundtracks were too evocative of the metric crap-ton of other soundtracks he's composed? Give the guy some credit. Personally, though, I think an ideal GC soundtrack shouldn't be purely orchestral, but should have elements of folk music and electronica.
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Apr 30, 2010 1:44:14 GMT
Post by legion on Apr 30, 2010 1:44:14 GMT
An ideal GC soundtrack could only be made by bringing Jerry Goldsmith back from the dead.
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Post by penguinfactory on May 3, 2010 20:33:05 GMT
I've been listening to the music of Susumu Hirasawa, the compser for all of Satoshi Kon's movies and series (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue etc) and for some reason they remind me of Gunnerkrigg Court if you ignore the Japanese lyrics. I think it's the mix of orchestral and electronic, with the discordant and random sounds fitting GC's quirky and off-kilter nature. This is a good example. I think you could make an excellent Gunnerkrigg soundtrack by blending the Harry Potter sound with an industrial one. (Incidentally I really don't see how people think GC is a Harry Potter imitation- apart from vague similarities in the setting they're nothing alike. I guess lots of people just think JK Rowling invented the idea of school houses).
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May 3, 2010 22:19:04 GMT
Post by todd on May 3, 2010 22:19:04 GMT
There's the surface similarity of a weird boarding school somewhere in Britain, next to a dark and creepy forest inhabited by mythical creatures who aren't friendly with the students, and the protagonist is an orphan or semi-orphan with remarkable abilities. But I think that the differences outweigh the similarities (though Tom admitted once that if he'd read the Harry Potter series before he began writing "Gunnerkrigg Court", he'd have handled much of the webcomic differently).
I think that the leading difference between the two is that Gunnerkrigg doesn't have a Voldemort-equivalent; the friction between the Court and the Wood is portrayed as the kind of quarrel in which both sides are partly right, partly wrong (making it appropriate that Annie's being trained to be a medium - someone whose function is to resolve disputes between feuding parties).
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May 4, 2010 16:34:57 GMT
Post by penguinfactory on May 4, 2010 16:34:57 GMT
At the risk of derailing the thread, it might be interesting to discuss how these similarities came about. While I don't know of any other examples I would wager that "boarding school with a big creepy forest" is probably a location that's been used many times before, the reason being that if you're going to set a story in a school you need a place for the characters to have adventures without interference from adults. That was probably JK Rowling's reason for icluding the Forbidden Forest; obviously Gillitie plays a more important role in the stories magic vs technology conflict. Incidentally I went to a boarding school that was surrounded by a small forest we weren't allowed to enter, so I always get a kick out of this idea. A protagonist being an orphan really is nothing new, and it's easy to see why- at a base level it frees them from interference by parents, and missing parents are an automatic mystery that will draw the reader in. Likewise, "orphan with special powers" is a common fantasy trope. I bring all of this up to point out that all of the superficial similarities between Harry Potter and GC are fairly common literary devices with obvious reasons for getting used. Given that, I'm surprised there aren't much more stories that share a basic premise with Harry Potter and Gunnerkrigg Court. (though Tom admitted once that if he'd read the Harry Potter series before he began writing "Gunnerkrigg Court", he'd have handled much of the webcomic differently). I'm glad Tom didn't read Harry Potter, then! I'd hate to think of anything being changed about Gunnerkrigg Court.
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May 5, 2010 2:48:20 GMT
Post by Mezzaphor on May 5, 2010 2:48:20 GMT
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May 5, 2010 7:32:36 GMT
Post by judgedeadd on May 5, 2010 7:32:36 GMT
My gosh that's some awesome stuff.
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May 5, 2010 7:51:53 GMT
Post by penguinfactory on May 5, 2010 7:51:53 GMT
The first few notes of that remind me really strongly of a cartoon I used to watch, but I can't think which one. I could imagine it playing over a Wacky Montage of some sort in GC.
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May 5, 2010 8:00:02 GMT
Post by Mezzaphor on May 5, 2010 8:00:02 GMT
I absolutely know it's from some classical music piece (one that's definitely been used in a lot of cartoons). I can hear the music, but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it.
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May 5, 2010 12:20:53 GMT
Post by Yin on May 5, 2010 12:20:53 GMT
I'm gonna take a gamble and say Feux Follets because I can't play Mezz's suggested song for some reason.
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May 5, 2010 14:03:19 GMT
Post by Casey on May 5, 2010 14:03:19 GMT
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May 5, 2010 14:04:42 GMT
Post by legion on May 5, 2010 14:04:42 GMT
I absolutely know it's from some classical music piece (one that's definitely been used in a lot of cartoons). I can hear the music, but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. Actually it's a composition from Django Reinhardt, famous gypsy jazz guitarist of the first half of the 20th century ( here is the original version of that song). The cartoon music you're thinking of ressembles this, but is actually something different: that would be the compositions of another jazz musician, Raymond Scott, of which the Warner Bros had bought the right in order to use them in their cartoons, notably the compositions Powerhouse and Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals.
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May 5, 2010 14:11:48 GMT
Post by Casey on May 5, 2010 14:11:48 GMT
Oooh, legion you know your stuff! This reminded me of watching Tom and Jerry when I was a kid. Which was longer ago for me than it was for a lot of you guys, I would bet.
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May 5, 2010 14:20:37 GMT
Post by legion on May 5, 2010 14:20:37 GMT
Well I just happen to love both jazz and old american cartoons from the 30s, 40s and 50s, so… yeah
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May 14, 2010 18:24:19 GMT
Post by hal9000 on May 14, 2010 18:24:19 GMT
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Jun 12, 2010 4:40:02 GMT
Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 12, 2010 4:40:02 GMT
"Shallow Water" by Demon Hunter.
The lines from the chorus "Sons and daughters pray for the rain / may it redeem their eyes" remind me of Zimmy. The rest of the lyrics are so vague they could be about anything.
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Jun 12, 2010 18:10:07 GMT
Post by Uncle Putte on Jun 12, 2010 18:10:07 GMT
Frankly, for the last arc...
I can't think of anything more fitting to the tone than Red Pyramid from Silent Hill 2 soundtrack. And that's pretty darn high on my creep-o-meter.
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Jun 12, 2010 19:41:39 GMT
Post by legion on Jun 12, 2010 19:41:39 GMT
Frankly, for the last arc... I can't think of anything more fitting to the tone than Red Pyramid from Silent Hill 2 soundtrack. And that's pretty darn high on my creep-o-meter. I was thinking of OST from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. myself, it's even creepier, I think.
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Nov 22, 2010 4:05:16 GMT
Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 22, 2010 4:05:16 GMT
BUMP I absolutely know it's from some classical music piece (one that's definitely been used in a lot of cartoons). I can hear the music, but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. Actually it's a composition from Django Reinhardt, famous gypsy jazz guitarist of the first half of the 20th century ( here is the original version of that song). The cartoon music you're thinking of ressembles this, but is actually something different: that would be the compositions of another jazz musician, Raymond Scott, of which the Warner Bros had bought the right in order to use them in their cartoons, notably the compositions Powerhouse and Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals. Actually, the song it reminded me of was something completely different, but it took me several months to find it: Sabre Dance. Listening to Rhythm Futur and Sabre Dance back-to-back now, they're definitely not the same song, but there's a similarity in the openings of each that I can't un-hear. And I can't name the specific short, but I swear I've heard Sabre Dance from Looney Tunes. They probably used it when they got bored with Powerhouse.
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Nov 22, 2010 16:35:33 GMT
Post by legion on Nov 22, 2010 16:35:33 GMT
Well Sabre Dance is a classic of burlesque music, it's been used and overused this way in movies and tv shows. And it has only be composed in 1942!
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Nov 22, 2010 16:47:26 GMT
Post by aegis on Nov 22, 2010 16:47:26 GMT
I don't know where this would fit, maybe the forest? This or Peter and the Wolf. Yes, I know the theme from MGS2 was stolen from this composer. It's sad that so many 'accomplished' adults still steal work from others. TS Eliott, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, HG Wells, and even Martin Luther King Jr. would've been even better if they never ripped others off...
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