Sound Investigation – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHk_mnez4S4&feature=related
I thought to myself epitaph? Epitaph? I found that I repeated it a million and one times until I came to the conclusion that it’d probably be best to open a new tab and just find out what it meant.
Epitaph = A commemorative inscription on a tombstone or monument / A final judgment on a person or thing
Once I knew what the word meant, it still didn’t make any sense to me as to why the artist would name the piece “Epitaph for Moonlight”. However, once I began watching the video I realized that Murray Schafer was trying to show that our outer space is so historical in our lives yet we should not completely demise it from our lives. By choosing a very historic and important event (man landing on moon) it influenced him to compose this video and to use the specific words he used, whether they be complete non-sense or words he just decided to come up with. The sound pictures Schafer created can generate many different writing pieces about ones passion because he used the images to express it.
I really enjoyed the video. I found it incredible how such small notes and ridiculous words can change a sound and create something totally different. I never thought I would feel the countless amount of emotions that I felt while watching the video. The sounds created an image in my head, apart from the images that were being displayed on the screen. The sounds were fantastic, it was as if there were a million different sounds put together to create a very beautiful and peaceful unison sound.
