It took an image to evoke the analogies between the futuristic music (then, in the 1970’s an 1980’s) and other forms of futuristic artwork, the image below drawn from the movie Bladerunner.
Under the directing of Ridley Scott the team of artists produced an imaginative vision of the future and a pioneering work of art.
Source Wikipedia: He was known for using many electronic instruments in a fashion of a “one-man quasi-classical orchestra” composing and performing on the first take
RIP Vangelis!
The image above also makes me think how the studios and the artists handled the challenging images without today’s CG tools.
As I have been piano trained for over of 4 years, I was always impressed with Vangelis’ music. Due to his works having no significant technicality or complexity but hitting straight to your core, with a tremendous impact and deep meaning.
This was a superb life lesson for me, something that affected me from an early age until now. That you must avoid lots of details and complexity at some point, because they make you confused and drive you away from the real meaning.
He used “electronic instruments,” back when such things virtually did not exist and cost a great deal of money, to create complex, memorable works that often featured very simple themes and grand orchestral treatments of those themes.
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