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Minimalist music
Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and...
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Koyaanisqatsi
Koyaanisqatsi (IPA: [ˈkɔɪɑːnɪsˌkɑːtsiː], KOY-aa-nis-KAAT-see), also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists...
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- 1983
Ravenous
Ravenous is a 1999 horror/drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party...
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Originally produced for Channel 4 the film is a form of murder mystery, set in 1694. The period setting is reflected in Michael Nyman's score, which borrows...
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- 1982
Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books (1991), written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story...
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- Nov 12, 1991
A Zed & Two Noughts
A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway.
At the onset of A Zed & Two Noughts, twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian Deacon and Eric Deacon) are at work studying the behavior of animals at a...
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- 1985
Enemy Zero
Enemy Zero (E0) is a video game for Sega Saturn, developed by the company WARP and directed by WARP founder Kenji Eno. After its Saturn release, it was later ported to Microsoft Windows. It was the second game to star the digital actress Laura.
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- Apr 18, 1997
The Libertine
The Libertine is a 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton, and Rosamund Pike. It is directed by Laurence Dunmore (his debut film) from Stephen Jeffreys' adaptation of his play of the same name. Johnny Depp plays the main...
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The Claim
The Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman....
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- Jan 23, 2001
Carrington
Carrington is a film released in 1995 about the life of the English artist Dora Carrington, who was known simply as Carrington.
The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey,...
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A Rainbow in Curved Air
A Rainbow in Curved Air is the second album by experimental music and Classical minimalism pioneer Terry Riley.
1970s Progressive rock band Curved Air named itself after this album.
The album inspired Pete Townshend's synthesizer parts on The Who's ...
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- 1967
Post Inferno Soundtrack
Post Inferno Soundtrack is a William Johansson album released in 2005. It were only pressed in a limited edition and it is noted as the first album where William Johansson took a step away from the general synth genre and a step closer to the synth...
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- Nov 27, 2005
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Colonia CD
Colonia is a compilation album by Autopsia, released by Staalplaat STCD158, Amsterdam 2002.
minimal music, industrial, ritual,neoclassical, ambient
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- May 2002
Reincarnation
Reincarnation is a William Johansson album released in 2006. It was meant to be released on January 21 but was pushed forward to 29th. But after a press message William Johansson said: "Since I like my music to be perfect I had to make some new...
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- Apr 4, 2006
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Castlevania: The Original Game Soundtrack
Castlevania: The Original Game Soundtrack (悪魔城ドラキュラ黙示録 Original Game Soundtrack, Akumajō Dorakyura Mokushiroku Orijinaru Gēmu Saundotorakku, lit. "Devil's Castle Dracula Apocalypse Original Game Soundtrack") contains the music from Konami's 1999...
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- Mar 26, 1999
The Knife
The Knife, released May 1992 on Staalplaat Records (STCD 020), is an album by ambient, industrial, music group Autopsia.
minimal music, industrial, ritual, neoclassical
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- May 1992
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- 1,800 s (30 min )
The Actors
The Actors is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey .
The Actors is a contemporary comedy set in Dublin. It follows...
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- May 19, 2003
Berlin Requiem
The Berlin Requiem is a CD album by Autopsia, a Czech industrial/experimental music group.
The Berlin Requiem
Old Europa Café, 2006
When Mary Shelley makes a choice regarding the place on which Doctor Frankenstein will finally render to our memory...
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- Jun 2006
Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid is the sixth studio LP by ambient drone music group Stars of the Lid. It was released in late 2001 on the Kranky label, on two CDs and three LPs. The album features long minimal, droning compositions created from...
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- Oct 29, 2001
Secret Block For A Secret Person In Ireland
SECRET BLOCK FOR A SECRET PERSON IN IRELAND Autopsia 12" vinyl on Illuminating Technologies 1999.
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- Jun 1999
Wound CD
WOUND is a CD by industrial band Autopsia with early electronic - lo fi tape music experiments, The CD is published by Hypnobeat-Germany and Gymnastic Records London.
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- Jun 1991
Soundtracks for the Blind
Soundtracks for the Blind is the final studio album by Swans. It was released as a double-CD in 1996. Soundtracks for the Blind, intended, as suggested by the title, to function as a sort of "soundtrack for a non-existent film", is by far Swans'...
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- 1996
Music for 18 Musicians
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- Mar 31, 1998
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- 3,489.36 s (58.156 min )
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DE9: Transitions
DE9: Transitions is an album released by Detroit techno and minimal artist Richie Hawtin. It contained a CD and a special edition DVD, with multimedia, such as videos.
The CD includes tracks 1-21. The DVD has all 28 tracks.
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- Oct 26, 2005
À la folie
À la folie ("To Madness") (English: 6 Days, 6 Nights) is a 1994 film by Diane Kurys with music by Michael Nyman.
Two rival sisters, Alice and Elsa, have been apart for two years. Alice, a promising young artist, lives in an attic flat in Paris. Her...
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Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman is the third album release by Michael Nyman and the second with the Michael Nyman Band, having previously contributed tracks to new music compilations. Most of the music was material from early films by Peter Greenaway such as "Bird...
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La Sept
La Sept (Société d'édition de programmes de télévision) was a French television broadcaster and production company created on 23 February 1986 to develop cultural and educational programming for transmission via the TDF 1 satellite.
In 1985, Georges...
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- Dec 1989
Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline
Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline is the seventh studio LP by Stars of the Lid, which was released on the Kranky Label in April 2007. The album features minimal, droning compositions of varied length created from treated guitar,...
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- Apr 7, 2007
The Ogre
The Ogre (German: Der Unhold) is a 1996 film based on the 1970 French novel by Michel Tournier, Le Roi des aulnes (English: The Ogre a.k.a. The Erl King). Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, it stars John Malkovich as a simple man who recruits children...
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- 1996
Wonderland
Wonderland is a 1999 drama film about the lives of a London couple, their three adult daughters and absent son. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker and Stuart...
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The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair is a 1999 drama film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea.
The film is based on The End of the Affair, a 1951 novel by British author Graham Greene.
Novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph...
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- Dec 7, 1999
Outside the Dream Syndicate
Outside the Dream Syndicate is a 1973 collaboration album by United States avant-garde filmmaker Tony Conrad and German krautrock group Faust. The album marks Conrad's first and only musical release for many years, and remains his best known musical...
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- 1973
Freq
Freq is a 1985 album by English singer and musician Robert Calvert.
It was recorded during the time of the UK miners' strike (1984-1985) and in between the songs it features snippets of field recordings by Calvert with miners on a picket line, with...
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- Jan 1985
Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life
Gravitational Pull vs the Desire for an Aquatic Life is the second studio album by ambient drone music group Stars of the Lid. It was recorded on four track and released as an LP on Sedimental in 1996. The album features short, medium and long...
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- 1996
The Cold Room
The Cold Room is a 1984 cable television film by James Dearden. Based on an eponymous 1978 science fiction novel by Jeffrey Caine, the film stars George Segal, Amanda Pays (in her film debut), Anthony Higgins, Renée Soutendijk, and Warren Clarke....
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- 1995
The Essential Michael Nyman Band
The Essential Michael Nyman Band is a studio album featuring a collection of music by Michael Nyman written for the films of Peter Greenaway and newly performed by the Michael Nyman Band. It is the seventeenth album release by Nyman. The album...
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The Composer's Cut Series Vol. I: The Draughtsman's Contract
The Composer's Cut Series Vol. I: The Draughtsman's Contract is the 51st album by Michael Nyman, recorded in 2005 with the Michael Nyman Band and released in 2006. It is the first in an unprecedented series in which Nyman began rerecording some of...
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"The Masterwork" Award Winning Fish-Knife
'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife is a 1979 performance sculpture by Paul Richards and Bruce McLean with music by Michael Nyman. The companion album is the second release by Michael Nyman and the first release including the Michael Nyman...
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- 1979
Taking a Line for a Second Walk
Taking a Line for a Second Walk is the name of piano duo reduction of a dance work for orchestra by Michael Nyman, Basic Black, written in 1986 for the Houston Ballet. It is eponymous with a 1994 album on Work Music on which it constitutes...
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- Feb 1, 1995
Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks
Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks is a 1998 album by the English Sinfonia conducted by Bramwell Tovey. The work, by Michael Nyman, is paired with The Protecting Veil by John Tavener featuring Josephine Knight on the cello. The photography...
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- Jun 1, 1998
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover is the twelfth album release by Michael Nyman and the ninth to feature the Michael Nyman Band. It is the soundtrack to the eponymous film by Peter Greenaway. The album includes the first commercially released...
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- 1989
And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices
And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices is the eighth album release by Michael Nyman and the fifth feauring the Michael Nyman Band. And Do They Do is a modern dance work commission by Siobhan Davies and The London Contemporary Dance Theatre, which premiered at...
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- 1986
Time Will Pronounce
Time Will Pronounce: The 1992 Commissions is a 1993 album by Michael Nyman, his eighteenth release. Nyman does not perform on the album, but he composed all the music, produced it, and wrote the liner notes. The album contains four compositions,...
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String Quartets 1–3
String Quartets 1-3 is a 1991 album by the Balanescu Quartet (Alexander Balanescu, Jonathan Carney, Kate Musker, and Tony Hinnigan) and the fifteenth release by Michael Nyman. It is the second album of his music (after Out of the Ruins) on which he...
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- Jun 14, 1991
After Extra Time
After Extra Time is a 1996 album by Michael Nyman with the Michael Nyman Band containing three tributes to Nyman's fandom of Association football: After Extra Time, the soundtrack to The Final Score, and Memorial. The latter is described as a remix,...
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- May 20, 1996
The Suit and the Photograph
The Suit and the Photograph is a 1998 album by Michael Nyman with the Michael Nyman Band, recorded in 1995. On this album, Nyman is the composer, conductor, and producer, and wrote the liner notes. The album contains two works, String Quartet No. 4...
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Mozart 252
Mozart 252 is a 2008 album by Michael Nyman (his 58th release) with the Michael Nyman Band, Hilary Summers, and Andrew Slater, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth. Although "Revisiting the Don," one of only two newly...
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Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi is the 54th album release by Michael Nyman, who not only composed but also conducted both the works on the album. The first, a setting of poetry by Paul Celan, was originally recorded by Ute Lemper...
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The Piano Concerto/MGV
The Piano Concerto/MGV is the 23rd album by Michael Nyman, released in 1994. It contains two compositions, The Piano Concerto and MGV. The first is performed by Kathryn Stott and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Nyman,...
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The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980-2001
The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980-2001 is a compilation album of film music by Michael Nyman, including three previously unreleased tracks (from Nelly's Version and Monsieur Hire) and one from the limited release, La Traversée de Paris...
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- Nov 6, 2001
The Piano Sings
The Piano Sings is a 2005 solo album by Michael Nyman featuring personal interpretations of film music he wrote between 1993 and 2003. It is his second release on his own label, MN Reocrds, and his 49th release overall. The album was released...
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The Composer's Cut Series Vol. II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisited
The Composer's Cut Series Vol. II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisted is the second in a series of albums, all released on the same day, by Michael Nyman to feature concert versions of film scores, in this case, films of Peter Greenaway, and his 52nd release...
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Dream Interpretation
John Cale: Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume 2, Dream Interpretation, aka simply Dream Interpretation, is an album by John Cale during his tenure with the Theatre of Eternal Music. It is the second in a loose anthology of minimalist pieces, once...
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- Jan 2002
String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why
String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why is an album by Simon Haram, The Lyric Quartet, and members of The Michael Nyman Band, featuring music by Michael Nyman. "If" and "Why" are songs written for The Diary of Anne Frank, where they were performed by...
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- Sep 24, 2002
Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit
Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit is the 55th album by Michael Nyman, the eighth on his own label, and the third of these to consist entirely of previously unrecorded work. He does not perform on the album, but composed and produced it. Acts of Beauty...
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Nyman Brass
Nyman Brass is a 2006 album composed and produced by Michael Nyman and performed by Wingates Band. It consists of suites from the films, The Ogre and The Libertine, and two additional shorter works: "In Re Don Giovanni", and "Chasing Sheep Is Best...
8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi
8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi is a setting by Michael Nyman of 8 pieces of a collection of vulgar poetry from Pietro Aretino’s I Sonetti Lussuriosi. The songs depict a man and woman's sexual desires for one another in varying contexts. Marie...
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- Jul 29, 2008
Day Of Niagara
Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. I: Day of Niagara or simply Day of Niagara is a 1965 album by the minimalist music group the Theatre of Eternal Music, aka The Dream Syndicate. Contributors include former Velvet Underground bassist John Cale,...
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- May 9, 2000
The Composer's Cut Series Vol. III: The Piano
The Composer's Cut Series Vol. III: The Piano is the third in a series of albums, all released on the same day, by Michael Nyman to feature concert versions of film scores, in this case, Jane Campion's The Piano, and his 53rd release overall. The...
