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Man With a Movie Camera
Classical · 2002 · 13 tracks

Man With a Movie Camera

Michael Nyman

Driving, mechanical chamber music that pulses with the energy of a modern city. A rhythmic masterpiece of strings and piano that feels like clockwork for the soul.

2002 · BFI

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A relentless, mechanical urgency that transforms the mundane into the cinematic.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks
01
Credits And Introduction
02
Prologue
03
Waking
04
Where The Real Life Dwells
05
Orchestrating The City
06
This Is The Editing Room
07
An Accident
08
Visual Vocabulary
09
End Of The Working Day
10
Battles Of The Lifestyles
11
Vodka, Church And Capitalism
12
Sound
13
At The Viewing Hall
Moments Worth Listening For
The mechanical surge of the strings in Orchestrating The City that mimics a factory coming to life
The sudden, jarring shift in tempo during An Accident that breaks the established rhythmic cycle
The way the piano and saxophones lock into a frantic, interlocking dance during Battles Of The Lifestyles

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