Monday, 7 December 2009

All in all - final experiences from the semester - Outlook to the future prospects based on the music class experience

So far we have taken several practicum classes, which have brought us closer to the particular field of art, the medium, the means and the way how business is done in an area and how we join to this world. How we can manage the artists and the general understanding was given of these fields. Talking about music is borad, to tighten this sphere to my experiences I should began with the nicely organised introduction to the world of music, trough analysis provided during the lession of basic musical notions, sounds, equipment.
The introduction to the various ages I really found useful and should stay as it is in my view, becuase it served as an arthistoric review from the business point of a manager, what he should look for when deals with opera or just a casual concert. What sponsors may support the event or what better not to invole. The funds and capacities at disposal are always limited, the way that limits them are people, tastes and demand. To base music for a financial ground is not a new idea, but consciously manage it with an overall market coverage is. Except states, I did not really see any organised music conesseur for the whole market and neither a consumer who does take it all.
For this reason overall management for the inustry and individual parts of it is really a thing that we should rethink. The loads of talents and far more who try to get to be one, are out there with more or less support and directions.
To lead and unite these freefloating sources I would strongly consider to bring conesseurship and artists on the stock or similar markets... let's C how it works;)

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Film Music


Since the first silent films there was always some musical dub, e.g. a pianist played the piano for the actions in the movie.
1923 has brought the change when the first fully synchronised sound-movie was introduced to the public.
At the early development phase it was uneasy to record sound and the film together, due to the noise of the sound-recording equipment, so the actors and the technical tools were separated, as a result it became hard to move the camera...
An other problem that has arised with sound movies was that the voice of silent actors was not always as pleasant as their play on the screen, so they had to apply singers who could sing the songs in the posrproduction phase, known "looping". Thus the career of many well-established silent movie stars came to an end.
The first films with sounds and sound effects in the 1930 have created an uproar among the audience and art lovers who claimed that silent movie had a lot to deliver in aesthtic values and this has been destroyed by the added sounds.

Since the first changes and challanges turned up in film industry, sound techniques and siystems have developped well together with the scientific and technical discoveries and by today we call engineering of sound that goes to the silent film track recorded. Thus the question arises again, whether silence is worth more with artistic measures or a perfectly edited, designed, recorded and engineered sound to the film?
At least this question should remain open, but what we should see and know is that art and artistic features of a film does not anymore lie behind the sound/music of the film, but how it is made and what is added to the moving picture!