Mission To Mars Disaster

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On a different note altogether, wasn't the Voyager spaceship mentioned in
the programme the one which blew up after taking off in 1986? Or am I
thinking Challenger in January of that year? I know that Jean Michel Jarre
had some music played (live or recorded, can't remember) on the 'disaster'
one - obviously Tomita got lucky that time!

After having seen it last week, I reckon 'Mission To Mars' would have been
a dream score for Tomita to have done. IMO he would have been very into the
conceptual themes of the movie. Shame they could only get Morricone to do
it... ;-)

In terms of 'nationalist' pieces, I wonder what Tomita will do at the
Greenwich Sound Cloud next year? Maybe 'Knees Up Mother Brown' (you have to
be English to get that!

Ben

>
>Hi Nick,
>
>This reminds me of the 1988 Sydney Sound Cloud, our bicentenary year as you
>mentioned. At one point the music performed was "Waltzing Matilda" which
>Australians have a very strong connection with. Brought tears to my eyes and
>a lump to my throat when I heard Tomita's beautiful arrangement...
>
>Regards,
>Lance.


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Hi Ben,

Voyager was a probe that was launched into the Cosmos in the 70's.
It had recordings and images from earth recorded on a gold LP.
Challenger was the shuttle that blew up after launch.
Mission to Mars was a bit of a disaster too, the score in particular.
As for Greenwich, my bet would be "Londonderry Aire" (Oh Danny Boy) for the
Tomita treatment...

Regards,
Lance.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Ward [mailto:ben at benward.net]
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> Isao Tomita Mailing List - http://listen.to/tomita/
>
> On a different note altogether, wasn't the Voyager spaceship
> mentioned in
> the programme the one which blew up after taking off in 1986? Or am I
> thinking Challenger in January of that year? I know that Jean
> Michel Jarre
> had some music played (live or recorded, can't remember) on
> the 'disaster'
> one - obviously Tomita got lucky that time!
>
> After having seen it last week, I reckon 'Mission To Mars'
> would have been
> a dream score for Tomita to have done. IMO he would have been
> very into the
> conceptual themes of the movie. Shame they could only get
> Morricone to do
> it... ;-)
>
> In terms of 'nationalist' pieces, I wonder what Tomita will do at the
> Greenwich Sound Cloud next year? Maybe 'Knees Up Mother
> Brown' (you have to
> be English to get that!
>
> Ben
>
> >
> >Hi Nick,
> >
> >This reminds me of the 1988 Sydney Sound Cloud, our
> bicentenary year as you
> >mentioned. At one point the music performed was "Waltzing
> Matilda" which
> >Australians have a very strong connection with. Brought
> tears to my eyes and
> >a lump to my throat when I heard Tomita's beautiful arrangement...
> >
> >Regards,
> >Lance.
>
>
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Benjamin Ward wrote:
>
> Isao Tomita Mailing List - http://listen.to/tomita/
>
> On a different note altogether, wasn't the Voyager spaceship mentioned in
> the programme the one which blew up after taking off in 1986? Or am I
> thinking Challenger in January of that year? I know that Jean Michel Jarre
> had some music played (live or recorded, can't remember) on the 'disaster'
> one - obviously Tomita got lucky that time!

No, Voyager was a pair of probes that successfully took all the pictures
of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and moons that you see in all the
books. It carried a phonograph disk (that sure dates it) with the
carefully chosen sounds of earth and some digitally encoded pictures
saved as audio data. They were the second set of probes to exit the
solar system upon the completed mission (Pioneer with the line drawing
of a man and woman designed by Carl Sagan's former wife was the first)

Tomita is pointing out that the record contained music and sounds
representing the world (so the aliens get to hear the since shamed Kurt
Waldheim who was United Nations General Secretary then). On a less
controversial note he mentions Cranes in their Nests (not Tomita's live
recording here) was selected to represent Japan as the musical excerpt
on that record. I don't know if its Goro Yamaguchi playing on the
Voyager disc, but since he was Japan's acknowledged master, I wouldn't
be surprised if it was.

As for Jarre, yes his astronaut friend brought a saxophone on the ill
fated challenger mission so they could do a duet from orbit at the big
Houston event. The piece is still there with someone else on the ground
filling in and became a memorial


>
> In terms of 'nationalist' pieces, I wonder what Tomita will do at the
> Greenwich Sound Cloud next year? Maybe 'Knees Up Mother Brown' (you have to
> be English to get that!

well Ben, pitch it to him if you dare

anyway nationalist is slightly pushing it, I was mentioning that at
least 2 of his events were tied with a major national anniversary in the
respective contry. I was pointing out, as most of us realize, that
Tomita doesn't exactly
theme his event to the big anniversary. He has his own positive
fictional metaphor as a program.

nick


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