Brian Tibbs Music
Unabashedly eclectic & idiosyncratic, drawing from many sources, mainly post-punk/industrial & classical. Formal training in classical music theory & composition, plus an abiding love of rock music & its various descendants. A few film scoring credits.
- Huh...these appeared in the train station. Almost sounds like the name of an industrial band?
- I was OK once my nose stopped bleeding #CSO
- That said, it was a great concert of Stravinsky, Rodrigo and Brahms #CSO
- The Industrial Culture Handbook came out in the early 80s, from RE/Search publications. Had sort of forgotten about it, but am now remembering the impact it had on my young, voracious mind. www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/resea...
- Very happy to announce my latest release, Bloom. A full description is in the comments. I hope you enjoy! Bandcamp: briantibbs.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-2 Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6Xzy6Z... Apple Music: geo.music.apple.com/album/bloom-...
- I describe these tracks as a soundtrack for an industrial fairy tale, a world that is part Bavarian forest and part oil refinery, telling a musical story of choices and consequences.
- What could possibly go wrong for art and culture?
- Rewatching the movie Fantastic Voyage, which I loved seeing on TV as a kid. Interesting thing: there is no music until they're injected into the guy's body, 30-some minutes into the film. It plays up the wonder they experience, but also lends a seriousness to that incredibly implausible set-up.
- Not much in the way of natural beauty where I live, but every once in a while…
- Rest in Power, Queen
- I honestly love the first Tuesday of each month when they test the emergency warning sirens. It produces such an eerily beautiful music - different sirens playing different pitches and "modulated" by atmospheric conditions.
- All I think about is music these days. Maybe avoiding reality? Got two EPs and an album in the works. Plus, as part of my geeky deep dive into Star Wars scores, I've transcribed something like 75 themes and motifs from episodes I thru VI. In other news, computer neck is killing me.
- Every third headline contains "...Completely Rewrites What We Know About..." I think I'm skeptical.
- I'm obsessed with this video; watch it multiple times a day. The movement of the dancers is somehow deeply satisfying (if that's the right word). www.youtube.com/watch?v=MojM...
- God, I suck at social media.
- Huh. Just realized that the Editors' track Lights quotes the dies irae (1:20). I'm supposing that was intentional, as it makes sense with the lyrics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniI...
- Yes!
- Watched Wild Bones last night, pretty good quasi-experimental quasi-horror movie about adult memory/experience of childhood trauma...at least I think that's what it was about.
- For music and/or Star Wars nerds, something I've been working on: a relatively deep dive into how John Williams used variations of the Imperial March throughout the SW movies, looking mostly at some less obvious uses. briantibbsmusic.com/blogs/what-t...
- Totally loving this. If you're familiar with early music, you'll recognize this medieval carol, but this version is truly grotesque! music.apple.com/us/album/ori... #ClassicalMusic #EarlyMusic #MusicSky
- Listening for the first time to Jerry Goldsmith's score for Freud (1962) and, by god, some of that score was used in Alien (1979).
- Don't like this decor? You've got another thing coming.
- Current favorite credential, from the world of dentistry: the FAGD
- Remember: your axe was made by someone's grandmother
- Is it just me, or does that 80s song "The Time of My Life" totally quote (or rip off) "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"?
- Interview with musician Theresa Brooks, who is featured on my last music release. She is an awesome person to know, as revealed by these quotes from the interview: "That looks weird…I like weird." "Corporate greed!" (In answer to what she would change about the music industry). tinyurl.com/yy993ctw
- TIL that Survival Research Labs (SRL) is still around & doing their thing. Founded in the late 70s, SRL are technicians using custom-built machinery that interacts & sometimes goes to pieces in noisy/violent live performances. Had a serious impact on my aesthetic. One of their posters from 1981:
- Gotta admit, I miss the days of actual zines and xerox. NYC in the 80s was a special place that has been lost.
- Today I figured out (after about 100 years) the imperial motif from Star Wars, A New Hope...so simple, but oh so effective:
- It might be 6/8 rather than 3/4, but...
- For the music nerds and geeks...a musical analysis of one of my more rationally constructed compositions. Not to say my music is "brilliant" or anything, but just looking at formal and musical unity/cohesion in a piece of music that is fairly wide-ranging in style and mood. tinyurl.com/2bezhmst
- Uncharacteristic photo coming from me, but I really loved the contrasts #spring
