Nagasaki Aftermath (Angst)

[Danilo Chompor]

I not talk now. Dictionary much work. This music tells anyway.

Tell if you like (or not)

[AndrewG]

Not too much. This is suitable only as a background addition to e.g. a visual sequence which has contrasts, ambiance, emotions etc. This music alone does not have this, or maybe I do not feel it good enough.

[Cody Loyd]

Danny.. (can I call you that?)

This is quite good! There are some very good things going on here. Overall, If I have any complaints it is that there are a few moments that sound a little too 'synthetic' and not as 'organic' This is a hard problem to solve though. Also, the deep, booming drums that come in around halfway through make it sound a little too 'movie-music' to me.

In any case, it was enjoyable to listen to. I liked the stuff that sounded like a choir.. was that a synth, or did you use a sample?

Nice work
Cody

[John McIntyre]

I liked this. It is not just ambient, but has a nice emotional feeling. I liked some of the chords and their spacings.

[Danilo Chompor]

I think people needs few listens, and begin to know notes.

[Adrian Allan]

Some interesting sounds there.

However, I do think that the discordant, hollow tones are perhaps now too much of a cliche to depict the horrors of nuclear war. Sometimes juxtaposing the beautiful with the horrific can actually be more effective.

On the subject of nuclear war, I'd like everybody to watch this film just once. It is one of the most powerful dramas ever made, and people going into work the day after it was first screened in the 1980s were still reeling from its emotional impact.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488&ei...

Countries such as the US and Britain just like to hold up the nuclear gun to the heads of poorer nations to get their own way without actually pulling the trigger. So in a way they do use nuclear weapons every day like a bank robber uses a gun.

The only nation to have ever pulled the ultimate WMD trigger is in fact not Iraq or Afghanistan, but America - twice (over two cities, in fact).

and oh yeah, happy Easter.

[Chris Alpiar]

Very nice, I enjoyed this much more. I still dont care for the EastWest choir stuff, it breaks the 'real' sounding of this and makes it sound 'fake' but still quite a nice job.

[Chris Alpiar]

yea that is a great film. I think anyone that is like 35 or older has seen that. Anyone old enough to remember even the end of the cold war and the horror we had to live with. Its a good thing to watch if you werent around then. But seriously Adrian, on the topic of nuclear bank robber - do you seriously think the UK doesnt participate as well? Where do you think the US learned how to be imperial? And I guarantee you its the same family lines of the lords and the ladies of the UK when the British Empire was at its peaks that are in control in the US today.

But being mad about these guys playing politics backed by threat of nuclear holocaust doesnt help a thing. Besides complete and total disarmament (a lovely idea but one that will never happen, at least not without going through a global thermonuclear war), what do you think can be done? Giving out the nuclear secrets to every fledgling and rogue nation so we all are on equal terms? The US, UK, Russia, China and others may be dipsticks about how they use their nuclear power to make demands on the world, but at least they dont use them. Imagine Iran with nukes? Do you realize how easy it would be for an angry fundamentalist to gain power and quickly melt down Israel and then the whole western world? Or what about other far less established countries where a power change happens so much easier like many countries in African and South America

[Adrian Allan]

The only answer to the nuclear issue is changing the way we live.

Our energy addiction in the West means that we have to have the best weapons to have the threat to bully our way into energy rich areas of the world like Iraq, Afghanistan and (maybe soon) Iran. We need the best weapons to preseve our hegemony.

Every single financial transaction burns fossil fuels. The more the economy grows, the more fossil fuels are burned. For every calorie of food eaten (which we often don't even need to eat in the obese West), 10 calories of fossil fuels have been used to make the food, from the tractor, fertilizer (oil based) pesticides (oil based), packaging, transport, heating, processing, etc. etc.

The so-called "terror threat" is, I believe, totally bogus. Hundreds of thousands have been killed since the beginning of the "war on terror" in desperately poor oil-rich nations, but there has only been one major terrorist event (911). Iran would never strike Israel. If it did, it would also wipe out the Palestinians and the fallout would travel up to Syria too. Iran has never invaded a country for over 100 years. The West backed Saddam throughout the 1980s against Iran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtCS65DtoSw&feature=channel_page

But in order to justify interventions in oil rich areas, the West needs an enemy (why do you think they never find the nefarious Bin Laden ?).

And I'm sorry to say that (like many internet users) I believe there was government (at some level) complicity in 911 in order to allow this never-ending war to begin.

This isn't intended to be a lecture, but just my take on the world right now. And maybe I've got it all wrong, but I don't just read the headlines, I try to find out what is driving events.

And yes, the UK is almost as bad as the US. We are renewing trident, but the US does hold the world record for an estimated 7,000 active nuclear weapons (why does it need so many ?...re-read the above paragraphs).

PS. The US version of our film Threads was called The Morning After, I think. I am surprised that Threads was screened in the US, being so colloqiual (North England), but I stand corrected.

And just to make it clear, I did say that the UK was part of the same game in post. I said:

Countries such as the US and Britain just like to hold up the nuclear gun to the heads of poorer nations to get their own way without actually pulling the trigger

[Chris Alpiar]

I, like most Americans, was in complete fear of annihalation in those days and I went out of my way to find material like 'Threads', and many around me did as well. And books like 'Warday' and 'Alas, Babylon' and such were top of the lists. I dont necessarily disagree with any of your thoughts, and some I agree with, like the possibility that 9/11 was staged. I know for a fact that Bush and Cheny *planned* to invade Iraq before Bush was ever in office, at least as per Scott McLellan's book (bush's press secty for 6 years). But in the end I still dont think that every nation should be allowed nuclear warfare capability, its just too easy for a country to be taken by a coup and someone decides enough is enough and actually launches a few.... crap thats a scary thought, even more than our current leaders controlling it....

Anyhow we are seriously derailing this kids thread (who claims to have no interest in politics!) so we should take it somewhere else ;-)

[Adrian Allan]

Anybody with half a brain can see that the "good" west vs the "evil" muslims is as bad as state propaganda can get (most oil is in muslim nations, coincidence ?)

thanks for responding - I'll stick to music now.

[Lori Sweeney]

Danilo, nice haunting piece of music. Seems like this comes easy for you. I get the whole "Nagasaki" title but how this turned into a political discussion is beyond me. Maybe because I am politically fed up like most people. I don't know if it's because the older I get the more I pay attention or if it's just gotten worse. The media certainly exagerates as well. Call me an idealist, but maybe if everyone solved their problems with music instead of weapons, we would all live in peace. Plus if the world were a giant musical, it would be easier for gay men to come out of the closet. :)

[Danilo Chompor]

I not like politics. I write music not to say right or this wrong. I just say a picture of what is like with music.

Oh, and unhappily I is not gay, but if world was a musical, I stay in closet for very long poo. Very very long poo. Musical is not for me. But I would like to be gay, cause is easy to make anonymous sex.