music

the avalanches are an electronic music group from melbourne, australia, best known for their live dj sets and debut album since i left you, which was assembled from approximately 3500 vinyl samples. [wikipedia]

richard david james (born 18 august 1971), best known under the pseudonym aphex twin, is an electronic musician described by the guardian newspaper in 2001 as “the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music. [wikipedia]

though his first major single, “didgeridoo“, was a piece of acid thrash designed to tire dancers during his dj sets, ambient stylists and critics later took him under their wing for selected ambient works 85-92, a sublime touchstone in the field of ambient techno. [allmusic]

the didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind instrument developed by indigenous australians of northern australia at least 1,500 years ago and is still in widespread usage today both in australia and around the world. it is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or “drone pipe”. musicologists classify it as a brassaerophone. [wikipedia]

this music video is an artistic collaboration between innerlife project and timelapsehd.

time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back. when replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of high speed photography. [wikipedia]

prior to 1976, jarre had dabbled in a number of projects, including an unsuccessful synthesizer music album, advertising jingles and compositions for a ballet. his inspiration for oxygène came from a painting by the artist michel granger that was given to him by his future wife charlotte rampling. the painting showed the earth peeling to reveal a skull and jarre obtained the artist’s permission to use the image for this album.
jarre composed oxygène over a period of eight months using a number of analogue synthesizers and an eight-track recorder set up in the kitchen of his apartment.[2] however, he found it difficult to get the record released, not least because it had “no singers, no proper [track] titles, just ‘i’, ‘ii’, ‘iii’, ‘iv’, ‘v’ and ‘vi’”.
he eventually found a publisher, francis dreyfus, head of disques motors (now disques dreyfus). dreyfus was the husband of one of jarre’s fellow-pupils at the groupe de recherches musicales of pierre schaeffer, where jarre had learned to use synthesizers, including the ems vcs 3, which was to play a major part in the music of oxygène. although dreyfus was initially skeptical of electronic music, he gambled by pressing a run of 50,000 copies. the album went on to sell 15 million copies.
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jean-michel andré jarre (born 24 august 1948) is a french composer, performer and music producer. he is regarded as a pioneer in the electronic, synthpop, ambient and new age genres, as well as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music which feature lights, laser displays and fireworks.

an equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the sun, the centre of the sun being in the same plane as the earth’s equator. the term equinox can also be used in a broader sense, meaning the date when such a passage happens. the name “equinox” is derived from the latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because around the equinox, the night and day are approximately equally long. it may be better understood to mean that latitudes +l and -l north and south of the equator experience nights of equal length.