Robert Fripp or Brian Eno who does the scale progressions..?

[Fastra]

Sat in the flicks yesterday with my lad waiting for 'The Spy Next Door' to start, and they were playing the usual background music before the film starts, but then came on one piece of music that I loved!

I have no idea who it was by other than to try and describe it.

Its the sort of instrumental music that accompanies sped up night scenes - usually traffic on motorways.
It starts of with a very simple progression of 3 notes and just repeats and repeats but has other scales coming in with it, again heavily repeated, eventually building up to a crescendo.
Its quite hypnotic really.
I think its the sort of thing either Robert Fripp or Brian Eno might have done..????

I've done a couple of searches through iTunes store and Amazon but they both seem to be very prolific and nothing really came up.

Anyone suggest what it might be???

[Arese]

Robert Fripp's Triple Note Crescendo

HTH

[Fastra]

ahaaaaa!!!

I'm bloody sure its Philip Glass!!!!!!

[onomatopoeia]

Something by Cliff Martinez from the Solaris soundtrack perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDuWBUs4FBw


Rather difficult to guess from just your description though!

[Fastra]

That's got the feel and pace of it, very similar actually, but I'm sure its a Philip Glass thing though.

[HiRich]

Fastra said:

Its the sort of instrumental music that accompanies sped up night scenes - usually traffic on motorways.
It starts of with a very simple progression of 3 notes and just repeats and repeats but has other scales coming in with it, again heavily repeated, eventually building up to a crescendo.

You don't mean the train theme from the original Get Carter, do you?

And BTW, it would build up IN a crescendo TO a climax.

[Fastra]

HiRich said:

You don't mean the train theme from the original Get Carter, do you?

If you mean this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kMhcf8eyiA

...then no.

... and as for

HiRich said:

And BTW, it would build up IN a crescendo TO a climax.

Then I do apologise! No, I really do!

[koenig999]

Could be Phillip Glass - Koyanisqatsi, The Grid, that is often paired with sped up night time road scenes.

Try it.

Koenig

[Fastra]

koenig999 said:

Could be Phillip Glass - Koyanisqatsi, The Grid, that is often paired with sped up night time road scenes.

Try it.

Koenig

Commander I love you!



It was from Koyaanisqatsi and was specifically the track Prophecies - but listening to it now I'm not sure where I got the 'crescendo' bit from.

Although quite what it was doing being played at the intro to a kids film I'll never know... (my little lad thought it was thoroughly 'boring'

[koenig999]

HTH

I saw PGE playing it live as a soundtrack to the film, quite an experience.

He is doing it again as part of the Brighton Festival i heard?

Koenig