Philip Glass on His Collaboration With Aphex Twin | Red Bull Music Academy
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The celebrated composer Philip Glass recalls meeting a young Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin, in New York City and collaborating with the producer on a handful of tracks and combining their unique approaches.
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It’s hard to overstate the influence of New York City composer Philip Glass. Along with Steve Reich, his minimalist compositions transformed the world of classical music and, eventually, popular music in general.
Glass’ early epiphanies occurred in Paris during his time in the mid-’60s studying under Nadia Boulanger and in New York when he heard Steve Reich’s “Piano Phase.” These events helped set Glass on a course toward the repetitive, dramatic, and conceptually rigorous style that has become his trademark.
Throughout the ’70s Glass refined his work, resulting in career-defining compositions like Music In Twelve Parts and Einstein On The Beach. In the process, he became a popular sensation, a serious composer who wasn’t willfully obscure or too difficult to understand. Glass’ stunning soundtrack work for films like The Thin Blue Line and The Hours, and a symphony based on David Bowie’s album Heroes, has only elevated his standing as one of America’s most popular living composers.
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you know your are some serious shit when Philip Glass spends 3 mins talking about how unique you are.
"I like music when I don't understand it". Richard said the same thing in an interview at some point.
can you give me the link of the interview?
I want too
I think MTV interview
He has such a cute humble tone to his voice a really thankful person!
That’s why I like math rock. I couldn’t tell you what time signature the music is in but I can tell if I like it.
Rumour has it he is still twice his age
wait
i didn't realize the glass family ages exponentially
That's not how time works.
@@meu02136 yes, that is indeed the joke
Philip "I was easily twice his age" Glass
The way he describes Aphex Twins music is exactly how I feel about it as well.
*'I like music when I don't understand it'* ~ That's exactly why I love both their music. I don't really understand it in any structural sense, but the puzzle fascinates me. And every time I hear it I discover something different I didn't notice before.
I saw Phillip Glass perform at my college and it was a mesmerizing experience. Got to meet him later and he was very very kind.
I need to hear those sound experiments
try Unstable Escapes by Dum Trik
you tricked me, but it wasn't bad you did.. nice stuff cheers
That Icct Hedral orchestration was great
It was an interesting experiment
I don’t understand Phillip Glass’ music, either, and yet I’m intrigued every time I hear it. Aphex Twin is easy to like. Put them together and you’ve got something INTERESTING 🧐
I think a fair chunk of Richard's stuff (like Analords for instance) makes for a bit more of a challenging listen tbh
aphex isn't easy to like at all if you don't like harsh timbres. his 80s/90s stuff is easy. after that not so much.
It’s really nice to hear a Legend comment on his work with another Legend
The Logo on the wall is killing me 😳
It'd be nice if the world had things with intense purpose around only
Saw Glass in Bristol many years ago.. absolutely amazing… the audience was made up of the classical folk in dinner attire.. and weirdo electronica people, Philip played beautifully and both sets of the audience loved it. So glad I got to be there.
Was RDJ being modest? It seems pretty clear that he knows his way around a keyboard. Either that or he took lessons in the late 90s.
Electric engineer, audio engineer. He's a genius knob twittler
The answer is synclavier
I always thought RDJ sequenced rather than performed on instruments.
@@forestsunset9617 sequenced? well that's much easier if true.
He sequences pretty much everything. If you watch his shows he rarely actually actively is playing the keyboard. He’s a drum machine guy through and through, and that’s why he’s so good.
"When I don't understand something I get curious about it".
If only more people approached the unknown like that, Bob Dylan would've never wrote "Don't criticize what you can't understand".
I had a chance several years back to hear Mr. Glass live with full orchestra playing his Heroes composition (among many others). Richard James' remix of Glass' version, basically combining elements of himself, Glass, and Bowie remains one of my favorite go to tracks.
Of course my best friend decided to get married and make me his best man on the exact day of the concert.
I'm still bitter about it. 😅
I feel glass when he said he was attracted to music he didnt understand but liked very much.
Nice clip but I can't forgive this man for haunting my dreams with his music from Candyman.
There were some sounds that I had to warm up to with Richard's music. It didn't make sense. I couldn't congeal the sound.. But then I started hearing it and I could see. It became less like noise and became organic. There still are certain sounds/noises that I don't like, i.e. highpitched tones sustaining through a track, but those are designed to irritate to a degree.
I've been listening to Aphex since '96.
Lovely man and great musician.
experimenting with random equipment seems so fun. this collab is interesting
another great clip, thanks RB Music Adacdemy for these interviews. good questions, very open format, great guest and interviewer
When Aphex Twin visit Red Bull Music Academy ????
Witold Zielonka Never I hope .... He is one of the only decent guys in electronic music.
Don't sell out Rich - red bull is poison !
Witold Zielonka he got enough money so he dont have to do this, plus his image is based on being quiet and letting music speaks
Why? People why?
I do not know how I would love to hear his story. For many years, many stories and dreams have been created if this were to be confronted with facts
Never hahahahah
If you go deep in understanding his person you'll find obvious that he would never do it (not because "red bull is poison")
Of course would be super cool hearing his stories...
Wtf??? They did collaboration?!??!?! Nice
Imagine seeing Icct performed live by Glass though 🤯
Like how he "tryed" to explain his "musical" training. With richard...you never ask questions. He knows his path and where it will go. Essentially Phil was an "experiment" to him. And it worked beautifully
Great collaboration 🐾☘️☘️☘️
Timeless🦦
Master on master. Love it
Happy, happy, happy. Everybody's happy.
I can’t be the only one who never wants to see something like an RBMA or Fact: Against the Clock with Aphex as the focus. Please nobody spoil that mysterious layer for me, it adds to the experience of enjoyment! I like little hints, like the video he put out of Vordhosbn being played on a tracker, or the Tuss rotary speaker video. But no need for complete exposition.
I would be shocked if he did something along those lines
I actually feel quite the opposite way. I'd love to take a closer look at the original tracker files of tracks like Ziggomatic 17 or whatever...Just to learn from them. I used to have dreams of Squarepusher showing me his way around the Yamaha QY 700 (nerdy as hell). But it might not be that interesting to people who don't make music themselves.
@@guruleinii oh man I would really love to see the tracker files as well. Pretty sure RDJ, Squarepusher and Venetian Snares have all used trackers 💙
@@21stCenturyDub Totally. Squarepusher uses a mode on the QY that's quite tracker-ish (but he's only mentioned trackers once, afaik). I'm pretty sure that Richard started using trackers in the mid-nineties already as he went on to influence the demo-scene quite a bit (people such as Bogdan Raczynski) up until the early 2000s. Venetian Snares has been using trackers forever, but I think he's more hardware-oriented these days (lots of Elektron machines). Autechre also used Renoise for a while and actually worked with Snares a little bit. I wish both would release some of those files, the results must have been mental!
how tf did i never know about this collab
Just so you guys know he's like 80 in this...... wow
Is there an album about their collaboration !???
most of movies and music im obsessed with are stuff, at first glance, i didnt get what was going on,.. but i liked i t
Great clip , didn't understood a word he's saying
That’s one lucky man
what?! on what did they collab?!?!
James mailed Glass which lead Glass to orchestrate Icct Hedral.
@@geoffsmith8172 where can I listen to this?!
@@boimesa8190 Aphex Twin - Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration). It's out there.
Does anybody know what track Philip did on "I care because you do" LP? I forgot the sleeve notes!
I will be king
Iccthedral - but his version is not on the LP, it's on the Donkey Rhubarb EP. RDJ also leaked a previous version of it in his "Soundcloud dump" days. He notoriously said he really didn't like Glass's first version and made him redo it.
do you need to understand aphex twin intellectually or can it just be for the enjoyment of sound?
I don’t think Richard (Aphex twin) would claim there is an intellectual part to his music.
I'm probably in the minority in that I came to the collaboration as a Glass fan first but I came out of it a fan of both. Philip Glass did a similar thing with Ravi Shankar - where each would compose a piece and present it to the other and the other would have their ensemble play it how it fit their style and instrumentation.
It's truly a wonderful experiment to take the music of someone else and translate it into your own musical language - especially if that language is very different than your own. I'm not sure that Icct Hedral is one of my very favorite AFX II tracks, but I think it most definitely adds something very worthwhile to Richard's catalog.
fucking redbull sign behind them is triggering my tripophobia wtf
He’s the closest thing to John Cage in our time.
Well clearly his memory is in a grey area. Listen to way he tried to recall certain aspects of the story. He will give a wide window of specifics. Also why is this video so short?
This is an extract from the full lecture, which you can find here ua-cam.com/video/qlvampaoeE4/v-deo.html
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really interesting how he would add tracks to Richard's music, then remove Richard's tracks.. I never thought of collaborating with another person that way. Kind of "infusing" their style into your own sound.
Duublow donkie dingo uno ;D
two of the greastest to ever do it
Philip Glass, one of the greatest memes in the industry; the most successful noob that ever lived.
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He looks shattered.
Nobody mentions his work with Sadé.
So this guy has worked with both Aphex Twin AND Fred Again!? wow.. too much musical genius sorry
That's not exactly true
To be honest it doesn't really sound like he liked his music all that much and is just being diplomatic..
I disagree. When he says "I like his music" I feel like he's being sincere. Sure he doesn't sound blown away by RDJ, but I think he felt a kinship in sound.
Sounds more like it wasn't his cup of tea but he still enjoyed it
Yeah, because he's not jumping around all excited an hysterical shouting silly compliments and "WOWs" LOL
Dude, get out of here!
No it's just that he had a process the next level amazing fucking music like anyone else who first listen to aphex twin
dense ass comment is dense
Cool as fuck. 1:41 -- Good answer. Awesome, in fact.