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Bones Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: Feb. 22 2004, 08:47 Having recently bought The Wind Chimes Video off Ebay, i was curious to see who else has seen it and what they thought of it? -------------- Amarokin' All Over the World "Music is at its best when listened to in the dark" Back to top

dreamweaver Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: Feb. 2004 Posted: Feb. 22 2004, 10:10 strangely enough I've been following a bid on ebay for the Wind Chimes video... don't know whether to go for it or not, so I'd be interested in opinions too ! -------------- I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-Life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heaven and Hell:" Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Feb. 22 2004, 13:07 Well, it's interesting. It's not really the kind of thing I'd recommend to people who aren't fans of Mike's work, but it's fun to watch. In some ways, it's like a video version of Music VR - Mike's experiments with computer graphics and music. I personally find that the instrumental The Wind Chimes makes a lot more sense when seen with the video than it does on its own. The standout track has to be Magic Touch, co-directed by Alex Proyas - it looks very stylish in comparison to the others, though Mike's contribution of something that looks rather like Bertie Bassett playing the drums nearly puts pay to that! Also well worth a look are the additional promo videos on the video, including his two video singles, Shine (which puts an interesting spin on "she's my light"!) and Pictures in the Dark. Back to top

bugular tell Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: Mar. 2003 Posted: Feb. 23 2004, 15:09 I also have this video, and i have to say that some of the music on the album is clarified by the video, also the inclusion of shine, and pictures in the dark are worth buying it for alone, as these are rare, but all in all i would have to say that this is prob the best MO video out of all of them, a whole album of music and vidoe plus other singles, something which is sadly lacking in future releases   -------------- Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak Back to top

Spinne Group: Members Posts: 397 Joined: May 2003 Posted: June 07 2004, 15:36 I have it too. At my copy the video of Moonlight Shadow isn't complete, it's something like an edited version (after the first chorus -that in fact is mixed with the second- jumps to the guitar solo, so most of the second part of the song is missing). Does it happen at your copies too? I would like to know . And don't you think that the Magic Touch version of the video is slightly different to the US and UK versions? Have you noticed that or it's me seeing (hearing) things?   And as Korgscrew has said, there are things that reminds you the MusicVR project, that's why I think this is the start (and not the interactive track on TSODE) of all that PC game stuff. It's all connected with his desire of linking music with images. IMHO the difference is that then surely he did music first and then created the videos, and now, specially with Maestro, I think he has done it the other way round. Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Aug. 26 2004, 20:50 Where can I bye it? Do anybody knows? Im from norway. I would love to see wind chimes video!!!!!!!!!!! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

EDROFKRAM Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: July 2004 Posted: Aug. 27 2004, 12:45 amazon.com Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Dec. 09 2004, 01:13 Well, now that the Elements DVD is out, I finally got to see this one, and I have to say I'm quite disappointed. Not that I had expected anything spectacular, but upon watching The Wind Chimes for the first time (ok, yes, I've only watched it once yet) I found it to be just a lot of nothing. It didn't seem to make any sense at all, the images seem to be randomly chosen, they don't look too great by today's standards and actually not by '87 standards either, and the Bali footage doesn't blend with the computer stuff very well really. I can't say that seeing this added anything to the experience of the piece for me. Also the opening scene (Wind Chimes pt 1) is very static and drawn-out. I guess it's supposed to be some kind of reference to 2001 with those flying bones. The other videos, well, Islands I knew already from the Elements VHS and I guess it's ok, looks pretty good. North Point, nothing special at all really. The time has come, pretty silly, randomly chosen Egyptian-style imagery which doesn't fit the lyrics at all. Flying Start, pretty silly, nothing special really. Magic Touch has to be the standout track as Korgscrew said, but boy, that "drummer" brings it down a notch at least. Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Dec. 09 2004, 18:37 Well, Holger and Mark, I suppose we have to remember that Mike, as ever, was more interested in the actual mechanics of video making at the time. He spent a lot of OUR hard earnt money on a quantel system to play with even before Top of The Pops had a chance to play silly buggers with Kate Bush. I seem to recall an interview where he went on about how many times he could overlap images of Aled Jones, which makes me think he was more worried about the technical side than the actual artistic content. We have to be gratefull that he still can/could produce such great musical compositions with only half a heart involved. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

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