When the piece ended, the video was quickly and automatically followed by an ad that started with a guy uttering astonished: "Beautiful. So beautiful..." - he was frying a steak. It was vulgar, but I had to agree.
I have read that it is a representation, maybe partly fantastical, of the band playing as the ship went down, and this is why at times the sound becomes progressively more muffled, as if heard underwater, almost as if somehow the band managed to play on until the ship came to rest on the ocean floor. But yes, it is brilliant, sad and beautiful.
This album changed my life forever. My father played it in 92 as I was a child and I could never shake the feeling it gave me. It molded my interests forever.
The feeling this evokes is more complicated than just sadness. I feel like I’m watching the end of something very old and beloved. The type of farewell that is full of honour and respect.
The stuff that Eno collected for his Obscure series of albums - I suppose you'd say 'curated' these days - was light years beyond what most people thought was 'alternative' orchestral music. Bought Discreet Music, as an Eno fan, but then had to get this, just from his introduction to it. Then everything else Obscure. Talk about opening your mind/ears/head. We should always be open to new ways of enjoying, well, everything.
Composed in 1969 so here in late 2024 (~56 years later) we are nearly exactly as close in time to the date of Bryers’ homage as Bryers was to the original event (April 15, 1912). Now ain’t that somethin’.
The chills tho as the music seems to continue underwater... While the actual band wouldn’t have been able to carry the tune into the sea, the thought of them playing their final notes before deciding (or being forced) to let go of the instruments is haunting...
Towards the end you can feel how the compression is affecting the metal of the ship and causing these distorted notes and odd gonging sounds - it settles so slowly, yet so inexorably. The pressure even forces tunes out of the piano. No wonder Brian Eno loves this piece...
Eva Hart was a relative of my mothers. Gavin Bryars is a Goole lad. We are, since 1945 on that side of the family,a Goole family..... both things greatly combined. Fantastic bit of music I discovered in my teenage library days in 1995. Love it.
One of my favorite pieces of music. I have shared it with my students and they have liked it, I gave a copy to a student a few years ago and she recently said she had listened to it and thanked me for exposing her to different genres of music.
I was just listenng to a podcast of Bryers on Desert Island Discs and he talks about this composition; his historical research, interviews and the way the sounds were made. I think he said it is based around a hymn called 'Autumn', as he was informed by several survivors and a crew member's log that this is what the band were playing.
A devastating piece of music. It reminds me of Charles Ives' Unanswered Question, where the musical constant is challenged from the periphery. The same is true of his Central Park in the Dark (1906), a soundscape of undulating quietude, interrupted by fanfare and the life of the city. The reality of the growing silence here is so grim but like the Ives works, it is more about introspection and philosophy than turning a tune.
Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников
The song taht is commonly said to be the last played by the Titanic's orchestra is " Nearer My God To Thee". Bryar's version of this music sound like that song, but misheard among the screams of panic and grinding steel.
There's another version of this piece on TH-cam recorded at a very large indoor swimming pool and the diferent accoustics are fascinating.... Lovely and even more "under watery" but different.
Bought the album in 1977 - never forgotten it - reverse side is a tramp singing "Jesus Blood Never Failed me yet" which Bryars recorded - the tramp was completely sober - and not on drugs and so Bryars made a tape loop and introduced a chamber orchestra so that the tramp was accompanied by the best musicians - another really moving piece.
I first heard this music 1975, sure it was on the john peel program,he introduced it as a recording using a highly sensitive mic from the sinking brilliant
Really, this piece could last for at least 2 hours 40, that is the time that elapsed between the Titanic hitting the iceberg and the sinking. Add to that the time it took to settle on the ocean floor and it could be, say, three hours. I'm not sure I could take the emotional impact of a piece like this for that long, but I feel like I should just for the experience, Maybe follow this with Pauline Oliveros' "The Beauty of Sorrow"...
The last two chords of this piece, starting at around 23:50, are what's known as an "Amen Cadence". Give it a listen and you'll hear why. This whole piece is like a prayer.
Indeed, that I can agree with. Since I have ancestors who were on board I can picture it quite perfectly. I have always thought about this tune and it is extremely beautiful, it made me cry the first time I heard it. And when I did, I wrote a long story about it and a novel. I have currently restarted those stories and may be published on Kindle soon. I love this piece. it is sad, it is moving and conveys what happened that night. You have made a very interesting point, thank you.
I think this would be a tune for the aftermath of the sinking. I have this on my iPod and I really enjoy it, but I would think this as a tune for the scenes on board the Carpathia rather than the Titanic, don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant, sad and beautiful piece.
No he doesn't know. The piece was started in 1969 and released on Eno's label, Obscure, in the 70's coupled with 'Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet'. Also, as more historical facts about the Titanic are discovered, Bryars uses this to update the piece, so it is an ever-evolving piece of work.
I remember John Peel introducing this and explaining the underlying idea - sound fades but never entirely disappears. New technology has made it possible to capture and amplify sounds from the past and this technology has been used to record the band playing on the Titanic.
Man, I heard it on the radio, John Peel's program - BBC when the album was released. If you want to pursue it with the BBC, go ahead. Whether you trust my memory or not is entirely up to you. I was not trying to open a debate, not trying to be clever, just offering my recollection.
I believe Bryars said that he composed the piece after imagining the possibility that sound never disappears, and that the sounds of the Titanic were rolling through the sea forever. I don't think he meant it as a physical reality, only as a spiritual one.
It's such a beautiful concept and if one considers that we can still hear the background noise of the stars from the Big Bang via radio telescopes I don't think we should dismiss it as far fetched. Anyway, as a purely poetic notion it is perfect for this concept.
Thank you very much. It was a story for children written from the perspective of the passengers' dogs. It needs a serious bout or rewriting, but I shall be more than happy to have it published when it is finished.
Extraordinary music endeavor! Perhaps a subtle interpretation of Amazing Grace. Either way, this is amazing music. not easy to listen to, and very haunting considering the tragedy and its consequences. as you hear it, you are almost there, a passenger upon that ship, a soul slowly being lowered to the bottom of the earth and sea, at the same time lifted and guided up to the heavens. you are resigned, and it is easier.
I loved this back in 1979ish. 44 years later and with much more listening experience - this evening Giancinto Scelsi, Elliot Carter and even Nick Drake - this (like the Jesus Blood piece) sounds mind-blowingly tedious.
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When the piece ended, the video was quickly and automatically followed by an ad that started with a guy uttering astonished: "Beautiful. So beautiful..." - he was frying a steak. It was vulgar, but I had to agree.
whats so vulgar about frying a steak
@@svenlittlecross when you can't eat it.
@@jammaschan right in the spot
I have read that it is a representation, maybe partly fantastical, of the band playing as the ship went down, and this is why at times the sound becomes progressively more muffled, as if heard underwater, almost as if somehow the band managed to play on until the ship came to rest on the ocean floor. But yes, it is brilliant, sad and beautiful.
Correct. It makes it hauntingly beautiful.
This album changed my life forever. My father played it in 92 as I was a child and I could never shake the feeling it gave me. It molded my interests forever.
What do you do for a living?
The feeling this evokes is more complicated than just sadness. I feel like I’m watching the end of something very old and beloved. The type of farewell that is full of honour and respect.
I was so blessed to have witnessed this piece being played. It was a truly changing experience.
I hear part of an Eve Hart interview in the background . She was a Titanic survivor and was just a child when about the ill fated voyage .
The stuff that Eno collected for his Obscure series of albums - I suppose you'd say 'curated' these days - was light years beyond what most people thought was 'alternative' orchestral music. Bought Discreet Music, as an Eno fan, but then had to get this, just from his introduction to it. Then everything else Obscure. Talk about opening your mind/ears/head. We should always be open to new ways of enjoying, well, everything.
I can't turn it off. It makes me feel like I'm there with them.
Just beautiful.
This piece brings me back to 2013-16. I discovered this composer and Stars of the Lid during those years.
Composed in 1969 so here in late 2024 (~56 years later) we are nearly exactly as close in time to the date of Bryers’ homage as Bryers was to the original event (April 15, 1912). Now ain’t that somethin’.
Everytime it makes me cry.....wonderful album
The chills tho as the music seems to continue underwater...
While the actual band wouldn’t have been able to carry the tune into the sea, the thought of them playing their final notes before deciding (or being forced) to let go of the instruments is haunting...
They say they kept playing until they died
Towards the end you can feel how the compression is affecting the metal of the ship and causing these distorted notes and odd gonging sounds - it settles so slowly, yet so inexorably. The pressure even forces tunes out of the piano. No wonder Brian Eno loves this piece...
Eno...yes. Bet he had a year in his .piano
Eva Hart was a relative of my mothers. Gavin Bryars is a Goole lad. We are, since 1945 on that side of the family,a Goole family..... both things greatly combined. Fantastic bit of music I discovered in my teenage library days in 1995. Love it.
One of my favorite pieces of music. I have shared it with my students and they have liked it, I gave a copy to a student a few years ago and she recently said she had listened to it and thanked me for exposing her to different genres of music.
Just huge. The sound is all encompassing. Truly beautiful.
That is so absolutely GORGEOUS sounding. Shatters your heart and emotions.
Absolutely mind-blowing. Thank you for making this dark, water diamond available for us.
La versión corta de The Sinking ,tan disfrutable como la más larga de ellas.Una obra imprescindible
Such a beautiful, original and oddly familiar piece of music which, would you believe, I used to own as a cassette tape.
I was just listenng to a podcast of Bryers on Desert Island Discs and he talks about this composition; his historical research, interviews and the way the sounds were made. I think he said it is based around a hymn called 'Autumn', as he was informed by several survivors and a crew member's log that this is what the band were playing.
A devastating piece of music. It reminds me of Charles Ives' Unanswered Question, where the musical constant is challenged from the periphery. The same is true of his Central Park in the Dark (1906), a soundscape of undulating quietude, interrupted by fanfare and the life of the city. The reality of the growing silence here is so grim but like the Ives works, it is more about introspection and philosophy than turning a tune.
what a top piece of music. nothing abstract about it. captures the moment beautifully.
Bob here: Highly recommended ... most haunting composition I can remember having heard.
Thanks BOB!!!
And what does Donna think??
You can see the big influence on Stars of the Lid, for sure
Very much .
Preachhhhhhhh
This piece blew me away the first time i heard it. When i learned about the title i was struck again
Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников
Simply haunting.
Wow I always was so interested and amazed in learning the band kept playing!
I was in the Choir when Peyton McDonald rewrote the piece. It is truly a fabulous work.
The song taht is commonly said to be the last played by the Titanic's orchestra is " Nearer My God To Thee". Bryar's version of this music sound like that song, but misheard among the screams of panic and grinding steel.
Forever haunting
It's the grand ballroom from the shining on water! Masterpiece!!!
I don't think there was a grand ballroom on the titanic, but let's pretend because it's prettier that way.
There's another version of this piece on TH-cam recorded at a very large indoor swimming pool and the diferent accoustics are fascinating.... Lovely and even more "under watery" but different.
Sublime piece of music
Bought the album in 1977 - never forgotten it - reverse side is a tramp singing "Jesus Blood Never Failed me yet" which Bryars recorded - the tramp was completely sober - and not on drugs and so Bryars made a tape loop and introduced a chamber orchestra so that the tramp was accompanied by the best musicians - another really moving piece.
me too
I remember that tramp. On the London Underground. He had perfect pitch. Extraordinary to hear him, as I did, more than once.
@@christopherterry8589 that's amazing.
Very beautiful music.
We can all Judge but we will only ever be truly Judged by our piers regarding our music
The Harold Budd nod of his album pavilion of dreams is just as haunting
Mesmerising, haunting, hypnotic, poignant, beautiful, tragic and utterly moving. The much longer Philip Jeck piece using this is just as good
great composition .great compositor
Que belleza!!!!! Gracias Gavin Bryars!!!!
Excellent!!!
I first heard this music 1975, sure it was on the john peel program,he introduced it as a recording using a highly sensitive mic from the sinking brilliant
Peel had wonderful taste for music across all genres
Only a few people knows that James Cameron had the idea to make his movie listening to this.
Listen to this while also listening to UVB-76. You won't be disappointed.
Really, this piece could last for at least 2 hours 40, that is the time that elapsed between the Titanic hitting the iceberg and the sinking. Add to that the time it took to settle on the ocean floor and it could be, say, three hours. I'm not sure I could take the emotional impact of a piece like this for that long, but I feel like I should just for the experience, Maybe follow this with Pauline Oliveros' "The Beauty of Sorrow"...
Thank you Bob, Pauline Olivero's is a piece of art...
Holy hell. Listen to this side by side with the AFX remix - the soundscape created is jaw dropping.
Uma maravilha! A melodia transporta-me para o infinito.
The first three chords of the piece, which are heard regularly throughout, also sound very like the opening of the 1812 Overture.
This is the 1912 Overture!
Randomly found this to my delight!!
schöne musik und ein tolles cover...
The last two chords of this piece, starting at around 23:50, are what's known as an "Amen Cadence". Give it a listen and you'll hear why. This whole piece is like a prayer.
Amazing Grace
It is just a tad removed from. Amazing grace but your observation is apt
Indeed, that I can agree with. Since I have ancestors who were on board I can picture it quite perfectly. I have always thought about this tune and it is extremely beautiful, it made me cry the first time I heard it. And when I did, I wrote a long story about it and a novel. I have currently restarted those stories and may be published on Kindle soon. I love this piece. it is sad, it is moving and conveys what happened that night. You have made a very interesting point, thank you.
Here from that submersible getting stuck down there. Rip boys
This just played on KALW radio Sept . 11,2020
Splendid.
speechless
I think this would be a tune for the aftermath of the sinking. I have this on my iPod and I really enjoy it, but I would think this as a tune for the scenes on board the Carpathia rather than the Titanic, don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant, sad and beautiful piece.
No he doesn't know. The piece was started in 1969 and released on Eno's label, Obscure, in the 70's coupled with 'Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet'. Also, as more historical facts about the Titanic are discovered, Bryars uses this to update the piece, so it is an ever-evolving piece of work.
Gorgeous. Truly.
Yes i remember hearing this all those years ago on poss JP program. My first play since then
This is correct, many mistake it for Amazing Grace or closer still, Nearer My God to Thee. The opening notes are very similar.
Always mesmerising
Tremendous.
Love it ....
It's still hard for me to believe it's almost 50 years old.
I remember John Peel introducing this and explaining the underlying idea - sound fades but never entirely disappears. New technology has made it possible to capture and amplify sounds from the past and this technology has been used to record the band playing on the Titanic.
Man, I heard it on the radio, John Peel's program - BBC when the album was released. If you want to pursue it with the BBC, go ahead. Whether you trust my memory or not is entirely up to you. I was not trying to open a debate, not trying to be clever, just offering my recollection.
I believe Bryars said that he composed the piece after imagining the possibility that sound never disappears, and that the sounds of the Titanic were rolling through the sea forever. I don't think he meant it as a physical reality, only as a spiritual one.
it's the concept behind the album which makes it all the more beautiful when you listen to it, that technology doesn't actually exist.
It's such a beautiful concept and if one considers that we can still hear the background noise of the stars from the Big Bang via radio telescopes I don't think we should dismiss it as far fetched. Anyway, as a purely poetic notion it is perfect for this concept.
And god bless John Peel - wish he were here.
Thank you very much. It was a story for children written from the perspective of the passengers' dogs. It needs a serious bout or rewriting, but I shall be more than happy to have it published when it is finished.
Extraordinary music endeavor!
Perhaps a subtle interpretation of Amazing Grace.
Either way, this is amazing music. not easy to listen to, and very haunting considering the tragedy and its consequences. as you hear it, you are almost there, a passenger upon that ship, a soul slowly being lowered to the bottom of the earth and sea, at the same time lifted and guided up to the heavens. you are resigned, and it is easier.
That's what I heard too
@@danieloconnell3055 Revisiting it now has an even stronger effect. chilling, and amazing.
#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #Audioded
They are recorded sections of interviews with the survivors.
I’m wondering if Godspeed You Black Emperor was influenced by this because it really sounds like it.
This is really good.
Sound theory underwater!
If anyone has read the original sleeve notes for this then you know what we mean.
Put Jonsi's falcetto on this, and it's like something straight out of Valtari. I can imagine that Jonsi is a huge fan of this.
I had all ten Obscure LPs. I don't know what happened to them
So this is an off- kilter variation of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” that tires out after 10 minutes. Wow.
I would think it’s nearer my God to thee.
It's like being stuck in a capsule suspended in time
Que bonita melodía,like si llegas asta acá del tiktok
THIS WAS PLAYED AT GROUND ZERO DURING THE DIGGING ON THE PILE AFTER 9/11.
+wangdangdoodilydang I didn't know that. Thank you.
liar
I'm getting some strong stage 3 vibes from this
Sounds really similar with one Macedonian Folk Song " Ajde slushaj, slushaj, Kalesh Bre Angjo"
I loved this back in 1979ish. 44 years later and with much more listening experience - this evening Giancinto Scelsi, Elliot Carter and even Nick Drake - this (like the Jesus Blood piece) sounds mind-blowingly tedious.
es una pieza genial...recrea bastante bien y con sentimientos , tal catástrofe...
Aphex Twin brought me here!
That would be just like him to play this! Always found the most unusual stuff :-) I love this - also Bryars' "Jesus Never Failed Me Yet".
is that a quotation of Amazing Grace I can hear?
This heavily reminds me of Everywhere At The End Of Time
Oh god please don't
Yes
You're like that guy who thinks every oldie sounds like Fallout
BRIAN ENO!
Its beautiful, but clearly a variation of Danny Boy
Gain Friday got me here..
the full package
pretty good
What is the talking that starts up at around 2:30 ?
Survivors talking
No, we won't take it from you, because you don't know.
I would be very interested to read your novel if kindle publish it, I will keep a lookout for it.
Aphex Twin sent me here
Me too.
how??
The 1994 version of this piece was remixed by him, called Raising The Titanic - th-cam.com/video/D9sQaIn1BmA/w-d-xo.html
hehe me also
I cnat hear what they're saying