Alan D
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Posted: Oct. 01 2006, 04:42 |
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Quote (goodjob @ Sep. 30 2006, 22:52) | I just wonder what kind of music tres lunas are? I also wonder why so many people says that it is the worst MO-album? |
The way people respond to Tr3sLunas depends not wholly, but to a great extent, on the way they respond to Mike's virtual reality game, Tr3s Lunas.
The really important thing to remember about the Tr3s Lunas music is that it wasn't composed in isolation, just as a piece of music. It was composed in a complex way, in which the process of composition interacted with the process of creating the virtual world, and each process modified the other. In order to appreciate the music fully, I think you need to have spent some time getting involved with playing the game. This changes your response to the music, because forever afterwards, mental images from the game enhance the enjoyment of the music.
Although it's true that the Tr3sLunas music (or rather, remixed extracts from it) was released as an audio album which could be played on its own, it's artistically significant that it was released with a demo CD of the game. I think Mike always regarded the Tr3sLunas project as a coherent whole. And so, if you just listen to the music, with no experience of the game, you are only getting a small portion of Mike's artistic creation. And that's why many people think it's one of his worst albums. But I firmly believe that the entire Tr3s Lunas project is one of his greatest achievements.
So, for a whole series of rather complicated reasons, I love the Tr3s Lunas music. And I have no problems with the 'saxophone', because it isn't a saxophone. It's a new instrument, with a different mode of expression - a saxotar.
You can find out more about the game here, where we're creating a guide to the virtual world of Tr3s Lunas. And you can browse through a selection of images from the game (reduced in size) here.
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