KHAARTOUM COMPOSE and SINGS 'THE MOST ROMANTIC MOMENT OF MY LIFE"...
It EXPLORES WORLD CINEMA PRODUCTIONS that STUDY these VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS of SUDDEN ROMANCE that MAKE UNEXPECTED RELATIONS that THROW the UNSUSPECTING 'LOVERS' into BEWILDERED TURMOIL.
1. D.H. LAWRENCE: 'WOMEN IN LOVE'. The 1920s British novel that was banned and burned for 'obscenity'. The novel concerns the love between tempestuous men and women, but also between men and men. It was made into a 1969 British cinema film that really shocked the world.
JOYCE CAROL OATS essay extract on 'WOMEN IN LOVE' from 1978:
Women in Love is an inadequate title. The novel concerns itself with far more than simply women in love. Two violent love affairs are the plot’s focus, but the drama of the novel has clearly to do with every sort of emotion, and with every sort of spiritual inanition. Gerald and Birkin and Ursula and Gudrun are immense figures, monstrous creations out of legend, out of mythology; they are unable to alter their fates, like tragic heroes and heroines of old. The mark of Cain has been on Gerald since early childhood, when he accidentally killed his brother; and Gudrun is named for a heroine out of Germanic legend who slew her first husband. The pace of the novel is often frenetic. Time is running out, history is coming to an end, the Apocalypse is at hand. FULL ESSAY HERE:
https://celestialtimepiece.com/2015/1...
2. MALAYSIAN CINEMA: 'SEPET' ['CHINESE EYES'] made in 2004 by the Late YASMIN AHMAD. 'SEPET' was the most successful Malaysian film domestically and internationally in English. It is the taboo love between two unlikely people, a middle class conservative Malaysian Muslim girl and and a working class Chinese market stall seller. The film also considers British Empire past and present.
SEPET FULL FILM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pnpK...
3. CHINA CINEMA: 'FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE' a masterpiece on the destruction of Chinese Opera by Mao's communism. The ambiguous love of straight actor and his male 'actress' partner. A disasterous marriage to a prostitute and tragic end to the 'actress'.
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE FULL FILM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9BTq...
4. UK CINEMA: 'MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE' is a shattering film chronicling the 1980s Britain under Thatcher. In the film British Asian falls in love with his British punk friend and they suffer homophobia and racism.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE FULL FILM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ66C...
INDIA - MONSOON WEDDING a 2001 film by MIRA NAIR. It is a complex tale of a Punjabi wedding in Delhi with family scattered across USA, Muscat and India. The wealth differences, arranged marriages, betrayals, broken hearts, high class love, low class love and a desperate situation of having to expose incest in the family.
MONSOON WEDDING FULL FILM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvB-d...
5. TURKEY: 1970s CINEMA MATINEE LOVERS with HERO: KADİR İNANIR and HEROINE: TÜRKAN ŞORAY. These SECULAR 'LOVERS' were an ICONIC part of TURKISH REPUBLIC STATE MACHINERY. KITSCH, but REALLY SWEET and ROMANTIC!
MUSIC
REPLICATING that EMOTION and RARE MOMENT
- VOCAL is INTROSPECTIVE FOCUSING on SENSUALITY of SYLLABLES and MICRO-CHANGES of PITCH and TIMBRE that REPRESENT the STATE of MIND, EMOTIONAL RESPONSES and that SLOW MOTION VACUUM.
- TONALITY has a DEBUSSY kind of WHOLE TONE SCALE that has little TONE 'PULL' giving a 'MOON-WALK' DRIFTING SLOW-MOTION FEELING. There is also an ADVENTURE of CHROMATICS, that is, moving up and down half tones. This adds COLOUR and a certain 'ORIENTAL' sound. The ACCOMPANIMENT is in OPEN FIFTHS [chord with no middle third note] to add a MEDIEVAL SOUND that BREAKS RULES of WESTERN COUNTERPOINT and HARMONY.
- ORCHESTRATION is just an ELECTRIC PIANO that plays QUIETLY in the BACKGROUND with a DRUM KIT adding to the PORTRAIT of an EMOTION-SCAPE where the VOCAL is PROMINENTLY TALKING to ITSELF DESCRIBING the WONDER of the ROMANCE with this QUIET and SUBTLE MUTATING RHODES PIANO.
- TEXTURE has as LITTLE 'HARMONY' as POSSIBLE. I am trying to move POP to BEYOND HARMONY and the 1000 years of HARMONIC REVOLUTION where WESTERN MUSIC just MUST have CHORDS and BASS LINE and CHORD PROGRESSIONS. I would like to start the MELODIC REVOLUTION where we try to MOVE BACKWARDS to pre-1300s EUROPE MELODIC MUSIC and LAYERED ORCHESTRATION.
