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Philip Glass

Koyaanisqatsi

1983

© GlassPages, 1999

Cover Picture

References

• Antilles 422-814 042 (1983).

Credits

• Original music composed by Philip Glass.
• Produced by Kurt Munkacsi & Philip Glass.
• Conductor: Michael Riesman.
• Voice of "Koyaanisqatsi": Albert de Ruiter.
• Chorus: The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble.
• Keyboards: Michael Riesman.
• Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet: Jack Kripl.
• Saxophone: Jon Gibson / Richard Peck.
• Saxophone, Bass Clarinet: Bob Mintzer.
• Piccolo, Flute: Tom Nyfenger.
• Trumpet: Lew Soloff / Charles Lewis / Lowell Hershey / Mark Gould / Allan Dean.
• French Horn: Sharon Moe / Peter Gordon / Russell Rizner / Brooks Tillotson / Albert Richmond.
• Trombone: Bob Smith / Keith O'Quinn.
• Bass Trombone: George Flynn.
• Trombone: James Pugh.
• Tuba: Warren Deck / Samuel Pilafian.
• Viola: Jill Jaffe / Sue Pray / Theodore Israel / Jean Dane.
• Cello: Seymour Barab / Beverley Lauridsen / Kermit Moore / Frederick Zlotkin.
• Bass: John Beal / John Bongiorno.
• Remix: Kurt Munkacsi / Michael Riesman / Greene St. Recording studio, NY, NY.
• Recording: Joe Lopes. RCA studio. NY, NY / Roddy Hui, Greene St. Recording studio NY, NY / Dominick Maita, RPM sound studio, NY, NY.
• Digital tape machine: Frank Dickinson / Digital by Dickinson Bloomfield, NJ.
• Special thanks: Harold Orenstein / Lloyd Trufelman.
• All music published by Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc. New York (ASCAP).
• © 1983 Original sound recording made by Institute of Regional Education.

Tracks

1. Koyaanisqatsi (3:30).
2. Vessels (8:06).
3. Cloudscape (4:39).
4. Pruit Igoe (7:04).
5. The Grid (14:56).
6. Prophecies (8:10).

Total Time 46:25.

Links

• Koyaanisqatsi official web site dedicated to this film by Godfrey Reggio and music by Philip Glass.
• Silent Films Never Had It So Good by Michael Riesman on Powaqqatsi and Koyaanisqatsi published in Keyboard Magazine in September 1991.
• Godfrey Reggio interviewed by Michael Dare about Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and the triumph of substance.
• The Internet Movie Data Base.

Notes

• Ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. Crazy life.
  2. Life in turmoil. 3. Life disintegrating. 4. Life out of balance.
  5. A state of life that calls for another way of living.




• This album contains selections from the soundtrack of the motion picture Koyaanisqatsi... a film that, without dialogue or narrative structure, produces a unique and intense look at the super structure of modern life.

Koyaanisqatsi lets you experience the acceleration and density of modern society in a new way. It invites you to consider the benevolence of technology and the notion of progess in the world we live in. A world out of balance.

Translations of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film

If we dig precious things from the land,
we will invite disaster.

Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs
spun back and forth in the sky.

A container of ashes might one day be thrown
from the sky, which could burn the land
and boil the oceans.

Pictures

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