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hello I shaved my face on accident but

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we're going to Renita so who cares it's

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time to go back to Italy all right let's

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break down this character

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trailer it's such an impressive shot

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even just to have the aesthetic of

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having the rain uh over the top of this

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I'm sure some cinematographer will do

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some deep dive uh analysis on this but

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it's uh it's very cool um you know I

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think it really sets the stage sets the

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scene perfectly but you're here for

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music talk so let's keep going what is

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going on with my camera

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today I find it interesting that she's

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the only person that has some sort of

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color I think it really highlights

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life vior

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monelli I'm not crazy about the Italian

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translation the Italian pronunciation I

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should

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say would have been really nice but you

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know we we we get what we get I'm not

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unhappy with this performance at all um

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you know but in my brain I hear mon you

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know that's what I hear but uh for non

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Itali me

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whatever in the name of our family I

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swear fasp what I find really

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interesting Jo FAS what I find really

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interesting here is that we don't have

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any music what we actually get a sound

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design and the sound design is really

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effective rain is a is a palpable

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feeling and rain can mean so many

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different things you know the French and

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the French when they wrote about plur

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usually it would be it it's almost um

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there's a sensuality in rain now we we

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sometimes attribute rain with with

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Melancholy or with sadness and that

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that's appropriate but I also you know

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it's certainly appropriate for this

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particular funeral sequence but I do

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think that uh having the sound of just

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rain with no music underneath is

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actually more effective than if we had

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included rain in it bow before you in

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regret may his repentance bring peace to

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your

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soul this is this feels like classic uh

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classic Tel Nolla um well T the more

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like Mafia movie sort of sequence it

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reminds me a lot of Yakuza actually

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dojima you know whatever but uh all that

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to say like this this sequence feels

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very in line with your m mobster style

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thing and and and let it be known of

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course that the the mobster IDE I mean

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yes there there's Mafia of course in

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Italy but but uh this is very much an

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American Trope I'd say of featuring you

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know the Godfather Casino you know

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there's a whole Italian American

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community that that I don't personally

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feel associated with because you know I

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I I feel more like an Italian who was uh

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born in the United States uh my family

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were not big Italian americ there's like

02:58 - 03:05

a whole Italian-American um Community

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aspect to uh Italian culture that's been

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Americanized that um that I was never I

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didn't grow up with that I really grew

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up with a true Italian cultural

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upbringing uh but just the difference

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being that it was uh in the United

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States uh we did I mean I did live in

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Italy when I was a child so I do have an

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affinity and a connection to Italian

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things and and certainly when I became

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an opera singer when I was studying it

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especially in my undergrad years I

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really started to um really want to

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connect with the identity of being an

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Italian and I think one of the beautiful

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things about Opera that we'll actually

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talk about later on as well is the idea

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that music uh music and Opera really is

03:43 - 03:47

you know it's an Italian it's a European

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art form and and Beyond but uh but it

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really you know Opera was was born in

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Italy it was born uh you know from the

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uh from the Florentine camarada it was

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it was born from the you know from well

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really it was born from the Greeks with

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with mono it's a whole complicated thing

04:03 - 04:08

but essentially Greek tragedy uh you

04:06 - 04:10

know it was sort of that was really the

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the Opera's been dying since it was born

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it was it was created it was it was

04:12 - 04:17

reflected on uh it was reflected on that

04:15 - 04:18

idea of Greek tragedy and then

04:17 - 04:20

Florentine camarada say well why don't

04:18 - 04:23

we do why don't we go ahead and uh you

04:20 - 04:24

know do our own thing and mon showed up

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and all these guys kind of came out and

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said you know let's do it this way this

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way this way so we used to have a bunch

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of different forms back in the day and

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then that that evolved through history

04:31 - 04:34

of course and through time but all that

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to say like uh you know I really do

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connect less so with the sort of Italian

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American Vision of what Italians are and

04:40 - 04:43

more so with the Italian vision of what

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Italians are if they even have a vision

04:43 - 04:47

that's another whole complicated

04:45 - 04:48

cultural conversation about the idea

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that you know

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do you know who are you when you're not

04:51 - 04:54

in the place you know if I was in Italy

04:52 - 04:56

I'd be Italian American if I was in

04:54 - 04:57

America I feel I'd consider myself an

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Italian so it's it's an interesting

04:57 - 05:00

conversation

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good morning Mr fusina fasina it seems

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you had quite a restful night what I

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like about this again is that the only

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sound that we have is the sound of the

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ticking clock sound design here is

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really impeccable I also really

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appreciate that there's a echo in here

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and there's a Stillness as she you know

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what does this symbolize obviously the

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pose is like very strong feminine power

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but then on top of that we also have the

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you know what does it symbolize to have

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a a bit of tea you know a tea while

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throwing a knife at somebody that's

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that's very casual isn't it so I think

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even there there's a there's a

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real sense of of power and control

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that's being exerted through body

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language and through uh physicality

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there do forgive us for being so forward

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the Montell family is known for their

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bold

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greetings what a shame you were unable

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to attend tor's

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funeral this is such a nice touch so

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this is a gramophone this is it's

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interesting you know the production of

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this particular I don't know all the

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details but one of the really cool

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things about when when we were really

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leaning into the idea of record record

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records with records and things and the

06:18 - 06:24

production of of of of the the sound for

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the records for the LPS is really

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interesting because now we have

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obviously we have modern microphones

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that take care of all this stuff but

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back in the day Cally you'd have a big

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big you would actually sing into this

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part and then that would scratch onto

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the the record and that's how they would

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I don't know how they mass-produced it

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at the time but in the in the turn of

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the century around the 1900s especially

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when you think enrio Caruso or um you

06:46 - 06:49

know uh some of the others I can't

06:48 - 06:50

remember a lot of The Sopranos that were

06:49 - 06:53

around back then but IO kuso was

06:50 - 06:56

probably like the the most the most

06:53 - 06:58

famous of Italian singers uh in the

06:56 - 07:00

modern era and in the the turn of the

06:58 - 07:02

century

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and what Caruso and all these guys would

07:02 - 07:07

do later on as well they would sing into

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this and then it you if you wanted to

07:07 - 07:10

sing quietly you have to lean in close

07:09 - 07:12

and if you wanted to sing loudly you'd

07:10 - 07:14

have to back up but you're essentially

07:12 - 07:16

sticking your head not necessarily into

07:14 - 07:19

this particular apparatus this

07:16 - 07:21

gramophone but this is a very uh normal

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I don't realize or wonder how many of

07:21 - 07:24

you actually know what this is but

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essentially it's a record player but but

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the sound obviously travels out of this

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part here it's it's pretty pretty cool

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so now we're going to get into the music

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and and this this piece oh my God I

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watched it last night I'm sorry it's not

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a reaction but I watched it last night

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and I was just like what so I'm really

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excited you might find some time to and

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this is an accurate sound representation

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too it's it's very muffled it's

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interesting because you know pieces from

07:49 - 07:53

this time period enri Caruso Lily pones

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all these recordings that we have are

07:53 - 07:57

all like they just sound bad not the

07:55 - 07:59

singing itself but the singing does

07:57 - 08:01

sound a little pitchy actually because

07:59 - 08:03

of the way that it's recorded but um but

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but the actual sound was extremely

08:03 - 08:08

muffled and this is pretty accurate to

08:05 - 08:12

that pay your respects while the

08:08 - 08:13

prospect for men Still Remains well and

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then it's interesting cuz this chord

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here it literally sounds like

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listen listen how it starts while the

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prospect for a men Still Remains well

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morning hours are precious therefore I

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Shan impose any further enjoy the it

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does into something else here in a

08:56 - 09:01

secondina I'll see you at the auction

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but what we get is actually this

09:01 - 09:07

operatic uh obviously but we get this uh

09:04 - 09:07

uh this this harp

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arpeggiation what excites me about this

09:13 - 09:17

particular trailer and and I I don't

09:15 - 09:18

plan to cover every trailer it's not

09:17 - 09:20

really my intention here but my

09:18 - 09:23

intention is to focus on music that's

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very very very very very good and what's

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amazing to me about this and what Kuro

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has done here is really taken something

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and this is one of the reasons why I I

09:29 - 09:33

really fell in love with uh you know so

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many video game soundtracks is where

09:33 - 09:37

they we really but lasora comes to mind

09:35 - 09:39

from genin Impact where we really are

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taking and actually this is actually

09:39 - 09:43

different than that because that has

09:40 - 09:46

some Modern twists to it which evolve

09:43 - 09:47

and move the uh sound quality of what we

09:46 - 09:49

would consider traditional classical

09:47 - 09:51

music forward but actually what we're

09:49 - 09:53

doing in this particular resonator

09:51 - 09:56

Showcase of kot is we're actually

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deviating from advancing the thing and

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to me what's really exciting is that we

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are actually

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recreating we are

10:01 - 10:07

essentially taking something that is is

10:04 - 10:11

very old and leaving it in the

10:07 - 10:12

functional style that that that is we're

10:11 - 10:13

leaving it in the I didn't realize I was

10:12 - 10:16

leaning back that entire time I'm very

10:13 - 10:19

excited we we are essentially taking the

10:16 - 10:21

style retaining it and then move

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composing it in a modern time period and

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this to me is very exciting as a person

10:23 - 10:29

who grew up you know studying Opera for

10:26 - 10:31

from um from 18 to to Really to to 30

10:29 - 10:34

and then performing for a bit a few

10:31 - 10:37

years before Desiring to retire I was

10:34 - 10:40

always desperately searching for

10:37 - 10:42

compositions that were comfortable to

10:40 - 10:43

sing in that were also contemporary and

10:42 - 10:45

one of the things in the classical music

10:43 - 10:47

industry is that we have a lot of

10:45 - 10:49

academics we have a lot of academics

10:47 - 10:51

that often times it feels like the

10:49 - 10:54

pieces that they're trying to compose

10:51 - 10:56

are are rooted in a compositional style

10:54 - 10:59

that is taught in school and we're

10:56 - 11:04

moving away from a romantic time period

10:59 - 11:08

of say Pini or or a belcanto style of of

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say rosini donetti and Verity these are

11:08 - 11:11

famous Italian composers and what we're

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getting here is we're

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getting this is more like guno really

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this is has a bit of a French sound to

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it and and why does it have a French

11:18 - 11:24

sound to it well it's it's very uh

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languid it's it's got a ton of a br a

11:24 - 11:29

lot of belcanto time period stuff which

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is really what this feels rooted in and

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I'm sorry if I'm losing you just rewind

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and try to come follow along I'm trying

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to I'm trying to make it digestible for

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you but one of the interesting things is

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that the Legato gives way to uh a couple

11:40 - 11:45

different time periods because Legato

11:42 - 11:47

writing like this could be the Verismo

11:45 - 11:51

style the romantic and Verismo style of

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say Petro mascan or rero Leon cavalo or

11:51 - 11:54

jaku Pini and these guys were

11:53 - 11:56

contemporaries and these guys were also

11:54 - 11:57

affected by the music of rard Vagner

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over in Germany because all these things

11:57 - 12:03

are kind of happening at the same time

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Pini was the natural uh evolution of a

12:03 - 12:08

guy like ji and ji was part of the banto

12:06 - 12:11

time period which also featured uh joako

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rosini and Gano donetti but these guys

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they the style is different a lot of

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times with this kind of with the music

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of the banto period you

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have the orchestration not only is more

12:25 - 12:30

simple than this but it's also uh a

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little bit it just doesn't feel as

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Legato it doesn't have as much flow to

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it and whereas this is very like flowy a

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lot of harp arpeggiation in there like I

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mentioned earlier so we're getting a

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sound quality here that's probably more

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synonymous with some of the French grand

12:44 - 12:48

opera composers that were also around

12:45 - 12:51

around the same time Shard guno uh you

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know George Biz that kind of style uh

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not to say that it's not Italian because

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it it is and we'll we'll get some

12:54 - 12:59

inklings of of this later on also you

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have to consider that jip Veri was the

12:59 - 13:05

sort of if Beethoven was the natural

13:02 - 13:07

through line from classical to uh the

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Romantic time period uh where where you

13:07 - 13:12

know we're we're writing an emotion the

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the the sort of structure of music is

13:12 - 13:18

changing then at the same time ver is

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also threading that needle later on in

13:18 - 13:22

his life especially after this period of

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time called the gal years um that's

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where we're threading the needle and

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moving into Pini which is much more the

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still the Romantic time period but we're

13:28 - 13:33

moving into that sort of Verismo very

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real high drama of uh that style of

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writing which is also in line with the

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art and holy [ __ ] I just ranted for 10 I

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hope you're still here let's keep

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going I like the sense of wonderment in

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this I love the sense of wonderment and

13:54 - 13:56

the

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twinkling still with that gramophone

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sound but it really feels like as Kota

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gets out of the car she's like um okay

14:03 - 14:07

we're going in you know there's a sense

14:05 - 14:09

of possibility in that twinkling sound

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and again a constant sense of

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confidence next we have the banquet

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starting bid 50,000 man B number four

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now now this musical style feels much

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more sort of 1920s jazz is now again

14:24 - 14:27

that's not my forte but what I would say

14:25 - 14:29

is now we have a bit of uh sorry

14:27 - 14:32

unfortunately my face was blocking that

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that little section there but now in

14:32 - 14:36

this jazz style we have a a sound that

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feels

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very uh there's a bit of harpsicord but

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but it almost feels like a

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reinterpretation a mixture of Baro and

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1920s Jazz kind of um I'd like to keep

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listening 60,000 and I know I say that

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because of the drum set it's very 15,000

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this

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part this feels this feels much more

14:59 - 15:07

like your Mario PUO The Godfather sound

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it feels very very Mafia movie type

15:07 - 15:15

style you know number three 200,000

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monai going once going twice sold for

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200000 now this feels much more in line

15:22 - 15:27

with that feels much more in line with

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that BTO style that I referenced earlier

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if you're still with me I find that

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that's that's

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similar that's very in line with that

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style to our friends the Montell are

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always

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generous as for our tra you know what's

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interesting this almost looks like I

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mean it's it's not but it almost looks

15:46 - 15:54

like the uh the final supper of of Jesus

15:51 - 15:56

Christ um not really but just the way

15:54 - 15:58

that they're sitting at the the table it

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does remind me of the the Last Supper

15:58 - 16:04

that famous painting um I have one back

16:01 - 16:06

there of sacriligious but of uh of Star

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Wars characters anyway always

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generous as for our

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traitors I mean it's incredible stuff

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it's a very lyrical phrase and again

16:40 - 16:43

this is actually borrowing with that

16:41 - 16:46

we're just taking what we heard earlier

16:43 - 16:47

and just adding the soprano on top and

16:46 - 16:49

what we're really getting there is that

16:47 - 16:51

sense of Legato and and and what's

16:49 - 16:53

amazing about operatic style of of

16:51 - 16:55

composition is that the voice is

16:53 - 16:56

actually the principal part of that

16:55 - 16:58

experience while we have the

16:56 - 17:00

accompaniment and it's a very integral

16:58 - 17:02

part of the thing obviously you need

17:00 - 17:04

accompaniment to guide uh the melodic

17:02 - 17:07

singing the singing is the hero the

17:04 - 17:08

singing is the main part of this also we

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have to understand that the singer here

17:08 - 17:12

it's called the dance section but this

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is absolutely representing carota this

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is carota's theme this is carlota's

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Elegance her her ability to you know

17:19 - 17:24

kind of move things along the way that

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she wants them her ability to transcend

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any sort of of uh challenge there's

17:26 - 17:29

there's a sensuality a femininity that

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those are all things that are

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highlighted and put on display but also

17:31 - 17:35

we have to understand is that the act of

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opera singing requires a great deal of

17:35 - 17:39

athleticism it's not just a park and

17:37 - 17:42

bark or a stand and sing I mean the the

17:39 - 17:45

physical man the physical ability to

17:42 - 17:48

produce an operatic tone is

17:45 - 17:51

one that is incredibly athletic it's

17:48 - 17:53

essentially an Olympic sport in a lot of

17:51 - 17:55

ways and what I love about this

17:53 - 17:58

transition is just the the visual design

17:55 - 18:00

here as she Springs into action check

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this out

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for our traitors watch this we

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shoot shoots the clips the mask and then

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watch she turns around ready for

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action smile on her face

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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so interesting I'm pretty sure this is

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in Italian because it sounds like it

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says

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matina

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or and again we're talking about

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Elegance we're talking about the fact

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that here are all these guys coming at

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her and what are we getting incredible

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lyric singing on top of that this is

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also first of all I'd like to say this

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is incredibly good operatic singing it's

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incredibly high quality operatic singing

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which I'm very sensitive to uh and I

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would tell you if it wasn't good um this

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is incredibly incredibly well done I

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think that it could the thing is I I'm

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always partial to a a much more melodic

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experience and while obviously the the

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act of this is a very leg Auto connected

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piece of music I would have liked a

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little bit more of of a melodic

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Direction but it's setting the the scene

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so perfectly that it's like that's like

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a little tiny quibble um but I also like

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how as we climb up it sounded like we're

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actually sustaining the notes which is

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pretty cool

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[Music]

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as she climbs up it actually kind of

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goes up again the the the melody

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meanders a little bit which is not

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inherently a problem it's this is such a

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huge upgrade from anything I heard in

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the first the 1.0 patches all of it

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frankly um this is uh there were other

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nice things of course with the black

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Shores and the firmament but but this is

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uh this is such a memorable experience

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and in my excitement for this really

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also stems from the fact that here we

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are representing Opera in a non- cliche

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stereotypical or superficial way what

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we're getting is a proper proper proper

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exploration of the classical sound and

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the fact that this is reaching 257,000

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people at the time of this upload uh on

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that main video is really exciting to me

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because this is you know this is like

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this is Opera this is Opera this isn't

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the funny commercial that you see where

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they're singing the torador or or you

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know the the habanera from Carmen or

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whatever this is this isn't pasti this

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is the real deal and I love that uh

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let's keep

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going see and that's cool too cuz it's

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in unison with the U this is all in

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unison is this and then there's the

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tension so first of all we get some

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Unison performance here but then here's

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the

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tension is this your invitation to dance

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gentlemen we move the music 300

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[Music]

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the ball has only just

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begun and that's genius I mean this is

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fantastic

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stuff right that's how we end CU I

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thought that we would end here dance

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[Music]

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gentlemen but instead we end

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there and what a incredible mixture here

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and this is why Visual and music can go

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so well together and uh and why Opera is

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also a visual medium in a lot of ways

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now we land in the car and suddenly we

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have the conclusion and this the

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connection here between audio and

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visuals is

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[Music]

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divine and this is

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excitement and what is this this is the

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forming of that glass right the power

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that she has and and now we get that

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sort of the culmination of her power we

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get this building up in the piano as she

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collects all these pieces of glass

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what a shot and then listen to the

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[Music]

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piano little bit of harp Secord movement

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in the

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[Music]

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underneath and this is really the climax

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here there a

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goes

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right actually know there's a

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slight Crescendo into the ending

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there why don't we cut a deal you can

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have the F spea estate on bra street and

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10 chests of

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manai no wait wait wait wait wait are

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you really willing to be a gun in

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someone else's

23:32 - 23:38

hands also the fact that she kills him

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outright which is I find

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surprising obviously it's off screen but

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the fact that we do have that full-on

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violence there uh is uh is very

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interesting to me well hopefully this

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has helped you I mean the ending there

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that culmination of of

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the I'm I'm I'm just enamored enthralled

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excited beyond belief I'm not gonna I'm

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not gonna hide it I'm not gonna hide the

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enthusiasm and joy I feel for weing

24:06 - 24:12

waves I really really really am excited

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to report back in the next couple weeks

24:12 - 24:17

as we see where we land with 2.0 but if

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anything is to be said from this

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marketing material and these

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showcases this is a big shift for weaing

24:21 - 24:25

waves and uh I'm incredibly excited for

24:23 - 24:28

what's to come it was one of my favorite

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games of the year of 2024 and it will

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continue to be up into 2025 unless

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something absolutely terrible happens uh

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this is definitely my patch so if you're

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new to the channel or if you haven't

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seen this before we're going to be

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talking about withering waves music a

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lot so I do hope that you'll stick

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around thanks a ton and I'll see you

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later bye

Exploring Classical Music in Video Games: A Deep Dive into the Opera of Withering Waves

In this extensive analysis, we delve into the trailer of the character "Renita" from the video game "Withering Waves", focusing on the intriguing integration of classical music. Despite the lack of a traditional soundtrack, the ample use of sound design, particularly the rain, sets a captivating scene. The exquisite attention to detail in capturing the ambiance of a funeral sequence is commendable.

A notable aspect is the absence of music during pivotal moments, as the rain itself becomes a piece of the narrative, echoing a range of emotions from sensuality to melancholy. The thematic elements, reminiscent of mafia movies, are masterfully interwoven with Italian and American cultural influences.

The character trailer highlights the unique use of the gramophone, symbolizing a blend of the past and present in the game's audiovisual storytelling. The transition into music within the trailer showcases a fusion of classical and modern influences, with a nod to famous Italian opera singers like Enrico Caruso.

The portrayal of "Renita" exudes strength and elegance, emphasizing the power dynamics through body language and operatic singing. The seamless integration of opera into the game's narrative not only adds depth but also offers a refreshing take on classical music within the gaming industry.

The infusion of different musical styles, including harpsichord and jazz elements, adds layers to the gameplay experience. The progression from Legato to a more vigorous vocal performance exemplifies the diverse musical landscape present in "Withering Waves".

Ultimately, this trailer signifies a transformative shift in the representation of classical music in video games, offering a unique auditory journey for players. As we anticipate the release of the full game and its musical compositions, the "opera and classical music enthusiasts" among gamers are in for a treat!

Keywords

Classical Music in Video Games, Opera, Withering Waves, Sound Design, Character Trailer, Musical Styles, Renita