Re: CT-GREAT SPEECHES IS OUT !

[tEd ® kiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net>]

Fabio,

I listened to this project a number of times through the other day and 
really enjoyed it!

Best regards,

Ted Killian

On Jan 20, 2007, at 11:47 PM, fabio anile wrote:

>
> Hi people, I' m proud to announce that the CT-GREAT SPEECHES project 
> is now
> online and free to download.
> Thanks to all members, for theyr creativity, patience and ispiration.
>
> Here's is the link:
> http://www.ct-collective.com/index.cfm?page=music&albumid=24
> and - for those of you who are interested - a "Listening guide" to the
> project.
> As usual, comments are welcome.
>
>
> Fabio
> http://xoomer.alice.it/eterogeneo/
> www.myspace.com/eterogeneo
>
>
>
> Listening guide to the CT-Great Speech project
>
> The aim of this project is to compose a music to "furnish" a famous 
> speech.
> A "great speech" is a speech that has a relevant historical, religious,
> political, or social content.
>
> First time I started to think at this project was when I worked on a 
> film
> about the Apollo 11 moon landing. The interesting part of that work 
> was to
> think to the speech as a part of the music, the leading part. Nothing 
> new
> compared to My life in a bush of ghost (Brian Eno - David Byrne,  
> 1981),
> but it was new for me experimenting the Eno-Byrne creative process.
> I started to work on other speeches and when I realized that it would 
> take
> most part of the time i’ve to spend in music, I open it to the
> CT-Collective.
>
> I'm now proud to announce the publishing of the CT-Great Speeches 
> project,
> my first experience as a CT-Collective project coordinator.
> This was an amazing experience for many reasons: different musical
> approaches and speeches choosen by the members, different ways of 
> working
> on the samples and many contacts with skilled musicians, from all 
> around
> the world.
>
> It's interesting notate that some members have choosen speeches 
> regarding
> similar events or content: 2nd world war, missions in space and
> spirituality are three recourring themes in this CD.
> That inspired me to create a playlist accordingly to these three 
> themes and
> here's how it works.
> The CD starts with a great dense, obscure and emotional atmosphere, 
> where
> you can hear the famous W. Churchill’s one-line quote, "we'll fight 
> 'em on
> the beaches" (1). Next songs contain the tone colored declaration of 
> war
> (2) by the italian dictator B. Mussolini, in a crescendo rock track. 
> It's
> interesting notice that both songs end with a sample (birds in the 
> 1st, a
> child crying in th 2nd) that introduce a reality context.
> The third song contains a Michael Moore speech, about the U.S. 
> President G.
> Bush feeling like God (3); M. Frank  had built a very rithmic and
> straordinarly accessible track.
> The Meaning of God is the original title of the speech held by M. 
> Gandhi
> that appears, after an ethereal looping textures, in Misterious Power 
> (4),
> the song i composed for this project.
> As it was the dark side compared to the Gandhi message, follows the 
> intense
> composition by Mike Fazio, about the The Jim Jones Jonestown Cult 
> Suicide
> Speech (5).
> Moon 1969 (6) opens the edge of space missions. Just announced, like 
> in the
> JFK speech, altered by Michael Peters in an onomatopoeic way, as it 
> seems
> that you’re starting to fly ; or followed step by step, with an ear 
> to the
> President R. Reagan announcing the mission and an ear to a radio 
> station
> that was broadcasting in real time the Challenger Tragedy (7), like in 
> the
> obscure ambient song composed by Milco Montagna.
> Spirit and science converge in a unique element in the A. Hofman speech
> choosen by Anders Ostberg for his drone track, about a new natural 
> wiev of
> life (8).
> Artificious is the starting point for the (impossible) 17 U.S. 
> Presidents
>  conference (9) Norelpref created. As an answer to all that politics
> talking, i’ve put Now is the time (10) contains a part of the famous 
> I’ve a
> dream speech held by M. L. King in Washington in 1963 (10). I compose 
> it
> before starting the CT project, and even if i’ve encouraged the 
> members to
> take in account this speech, noone used it.  So i put it here, 
> thinking it
> could be a good final song.
> At the end, i feel it was an interesting experience where all members 
> work
> hard to get the best idea, or musical and technical approach and
> inspiration.
>
> Thanks to you all for your work, collaboration and patience, i’ll 
> hope it
> will be a second CT-Great Speeches project to follow.
>       Fabio Anile
>