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Topic: Instrument (movie)


  
  Healing Music Therapy instruments - Freenotes Wings
Affordable, lightweight and portable, the Freenotes music therapy instruments are the foundation for the music therapist to facilitate both group interaction and individual creativity.
Our instruments are known to bring comfort, joy and healing to the impaired, the sick, the dying and the family members who share in their experience.
Freenotes musical instruments are carefully designed with a genius for unlocking an individual’s innate creative potential, allowing the universal language of music to be expressed more by feeling and intuition than hours of disciplined practice.
www.musictherapyinstruments.com   (828 words)

  
  The Red Violin Movie Review by Anthony Leong
As Nicolo Bussotti (Carlo Cecchi) fashions the instrument, a gift for his as yet unborn son, his pregnant wife Anna (Irene Garzioli) is told her future by a spiritualist-- a destiny that is inexplicably intertwined with the future awaiting the uncompleted Red Violin.
However, the instrument's stay is short-lived as the relationship between Pope and novelist Victoria Byrd (Greta Scacchi of "Presumed Innocent") sours, leading to misfortune yet again.
The instrument then winds its way to Shanghai, where it languishes for many years in a pawn shop until it is purchased by an upper class Chinese family for their daughter.
www.mediacircus.net /redviolin.html   (1036 words)

  
 Film
Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, motion pictures, photoplays, picture shows and flicks — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form, or as part of the entertainment industry.
As a result, popular movies can become worldwide attractions, especially with the addition of dubbing or subtitles to communicate the dialogue.
Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue).
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/film_1.html   (1368 words)

  
 Template Preparation Machine - Technology Development Center
The instrument collects 300 ul of phage supernatant from the input plate, mixes it with precipitation buffer and transfers the mix into one of six Polyfiltronics GF/B filter plates which are mounted on the instrument.
During these washes, the phage are trapped in the filter membrane and lysed, and the DNA is released, bound to the glass, and washed with ethanol.
Once the washes are complete, the pipettor arm of the instrument resuspends the clean DNA in 1xTE and elutes it into a collection plate served by the second server arm.
sequence-www.stanford.edu /group/techdev/temprep.html   (360 words)

  
 DVD Review - The Red Violin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Imagine you have a biographic movie, in which not a person is the center of attention, but an object.
Gypsies are now in possession of the instrument during the 19th century, when rich virtuoso Frederick Pope (Jason Flemyng) takes possession of the instrument and falls in love with its remarkable voice.
For viewers with a passion for music and instruments, this movie is a remarkably mesmerizing release, and the great presentation Universal is giving it here on this DVD with a great video transfer and hauntingly beautiful soundtracks, makes this DVD an invaluable addition to everyone’s collection.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_red_violin.shtml   (1197 words)

  
 MARS (Neutron Spectrometer at SINQ, PSI Villigen, Switzerland)
MARS is a project of a time-of-flight backscattering instrument with inverted geometry at the new neutron spallation source SINQ, PSI Villigen, Switzerland.
Five choppers running at a frequency of 50 Hz (with an option of up to 350 Hz for the first chopper) tailor the neutron beam into a pulse of neutrons with an energy band width which depends on the incident energy.
Movie [70 KB, cross-platform]) with the advantage of a matching of the primary and secondary resolutions and hence an increased neutron intensity for higher incident energies (smaller scattering angles).
sinq.web.psi.ch /sinq/instr/mars.html   (195 words)

  
 NASA - Top Story - Spacecraft Fleet Tracks Blast Wave Through Solar System
This is a multi-instrument movie of the October - November 2003 solar storms.
This movie is an artist's concept of the blast wave passing the Voyager spacecraft.
In the movie, the Sun is the bright yellow dot in the center of the image, and the blast wave is represented by a yellow-orange blob that moves out away from the Sun.
www.nasa.gov /centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0708flare.html   (1826 words)

  
 INSTRUMENT : MOVIE AND SOUNDTRACK INFO
Instrument was shown for the first time last Friday at Duke University here in the States as a part of some sound and visual festival thing....
i went and saw it (instrument by jem cohen and fugazi) with 3 or 4 of my friends, and they all left before it was even over.
I was very excited to see the new fugazi movie "Instrument" and was glad when I found out their were screenings in my neighbourhood.
users.telenet.be /fugazi/instrument.htm   (1126 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: Master bassoonist reveals instrument's many layers
At various times in Thursday's Seattle Symphony performance of John Williams' Bassoon Concerto "The Five Sacred Trees," Krimsky's lance of an instrument sounded like a resonant viola, an urgent trumpet and a vibrating bass.
Yet it was just Krimsky — the Symphony's principal bassoonist, front and center in the solo spot for the night — showing the range of an instrument seldom displayed so prominently.
The complex orchestration and unusual instrument pairings — the soloist alternately joined the harp, flute, Irish bodhran drum and concertmaster Maria Larionoff's violin — made this piece more challenging than Williams' typically melodic movie scores ("Star Wars" and "Schindler's List" among the many).
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2003436351_symp18.html   (364 words)

  
 The Red Violin - www.ezboard.com
The soundtrack CD, like most movie soundtrack CDs, suffers a bit without the movie context on the pieces, but less so than some others because of course the whole idea was that this one violin's personality carried through the ages w/ all its owners.
I enjoyed aspects of the movie, although I confess I probably would have enjoyed the two hours more if they had been spent showing the spectal analysis of the instrument that was only implied by all the electronic equipment surrounding it toward the end of the flick.
I liked the movie, found it confusing with all the flashbacks and had to watch it again -- which was not unenjoyable.
www.cello.org /heaven/mbarchs/2001/sept10/redvio.htm   (953 words)

  
 Psychology of Film Music - UCLA - Ethnomusicology 197 - List of Movies
Music for this movie is bithematic - the theme of love (whenever Ingrid Bergman, the actress in the movie is thinking about him) is in major and the theme of his obsession with the parallel lines (on the tablecloth, her robe, the bedcover.
This movie is an epic recreation of the attack on Pearl Harbor as told from both the American and Japanese sides.
Music for this movie is monothematic - the theme (a spiritual) is varied in different ways throughout the movie - by use of orchestration and motivic work, and at some point it becomes a source music.
www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /courses/176/ethnomus197d.htm   (2651 words)

  
 Catalog Page for PIA07369
The pink swatch is the area observed by the radar instrument during the Oct. 2004 flyby, while the blue area represents the coverage observed during the Feb. 15 flyby.
The movie zooms into several interesting areas on Titan, including a giant crater the size of Iowa, an area with bright hills and ridges surrounded by a dark plain, and a smaller crater with a blanket of material surrounding it, possibly due to ejected material being thrown out of the crater after an impact.
The radar instrument team is based at JPL, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA07369   (207 words)

  
 Tom Woods Rocket Movies Page
The size of this movie is 6.5 MB, and this movie includes a soundtrack about activites during the flight.
The targets are the Sun (not shown) for the solar instruments and the western horizon for the airglow instrument.
This movie is from the CCD camera inside the rocket experiment that is aligned about 10 degrees below the airglow field of view.
lasp.colorado.edu /rocket/rocket_movies.html   (622 words)

  
 SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT)
Movies of a flare-related wave and dimming indicative of a possible earthward-directed coronal mass ejection (CME).
While the pixel scale of the EIT instrument is 1024 x 1024 2.6-arc second pixels, the images to which these thumbnails are linked has been reduced to 512 x 512 to keep the file size reasonable (160 - 200 Kbyte).
The instrument was designed to be used in conjunction with other SOHO instruments, particularly the LASCO visible-light coronagraphs and the SUMER and CDS imaging spectrographs, as well as with ground-based instruments.
umbra.nascom.nasa.gov /eit   (1370 words)

  
 RED VIOLIN
A momentary delay in the violin’s appearance from behind the rotating doors stirs some confusion, but the violin is finally revealed, and the bidders begin their face off.
A young orphan prodigy in Austria clings to the instrument almost as if it were a teddy bear while he dreams of developing his life after his talent is discovered by monks.
Bussotti spent night and day making his instruments, but only when he sealed in his heartache, his passion, and love, did he create the one thing that can stand for his entire life and carry forth the humanity it represents.
www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/red_violin.htm   (958 words)

  
 Review: The Red Violin (Le Violon Rouge)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Not only is that the name of the instrument that lies at the center of François Girard's new film, it's the movie's title, as well.
The stories are tied together by employing inserts from the 1997 auction, where representatives of the descendants of the instrument's past possessors are preparing to bid, as a means to move from one segment to the next (these inserts show the auction from different vantage points).
Movies that follow objects rather than characters are always difficult to craft, and the central item often ends up being little more than a gimmick used to tie together unrelated narratives (see The Dress for a recent example).
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/r/red_violin.html   (919 words)

  
 Rumbleometer Virtual Site
The Rumbleometer (or VSM) is a NOAA seafloor instrument used to monitor volcanic activity.
During the 1998 eruption, the instrument was caught in the new lava flow!
Both the fly-through movie and the panorama may take some time to load, so please be patient.
www.pmel.noaa.gov /vents/nemo/explorer/rumble.html   (217 words)

  
 Newswise
One way to gauge this effect is to examine the use of an instrument commonly undervalued by both.
To assess the tuba's use in movies, Sloan examined countless film scores, listened to hundreds of soundtracks, watched more than 200 videos ("I relied greatly on the fast forward button."), and conducted interviews with some of Hollywood's greatest tuba players, including Tommy Johnson and Jim Self.
The first significant film score was written in 1933 for the movie "King Kong," and two years later, the tuba made its big-screen debut in a Gary Cooper movie called "Mr.
www.newswise.com /articles/view?id=TUBA.UAR   (930 words)

  
 First Light Images
This is a selected frame from a sequence which is available as a quicktime movie.
The Radio Plasma Imager (RPI) on IMAGE is the first-of-its-kind instrument designed to study the dynamics of the magnetosphere by using radar techniques.
The view is towards the earth's night side, and the detailed, highly turbulent region near midnight reveals storm activity in the magnetic field surrounding Earth.
image.gsfc.nasa.gov /press_release/2000_05_31   (623 words)

  
 UNo MAS: Fugazi, the Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was the Washington premiere of Instrument, a full-length film documenting Fugazi's 11 year existence, and Picciotto, the band's co-frontman, was sitting in a crowd of 300 Fugazi fans wondering how they'd react.
The film (available from Dischord Records on VHS format) is a beautifully impressionistic work, combining Cohen's stylish nightscapes and grainy 16 mm concert footage with super-8 home movies and video from several sources, edited together with a skill that is sometimes startling in its juxtapositions.
Many of those sounds and textures can be heard in the audio portion of Instrument, but a better document is "Instrument Soundtrack," the accompanying CD that has been released by Dischord (MacKaye's and former Minor Threat partner Jeff Nelson's label) in conjunction with its video release of the movie.
www.unomas.com /features/fugazi.html   (1517 words)

  
 NASA - Top Story - Fall 2003 Solar Storms Overview
The CME expands in the field of view as it approaches the SOHO spacecraft because it was directed toward Earth, and the SOHO spacecraft is positioned directly between the Sun and the Earth.
The white spots in the third and fourth images are the impacts of high-speed particles on the LASCO instrument.
This is a movie of the November 20 aurora made by the Visible Imaging System on board the Polar spacecraft.
www.nasa.gov /lb/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0519solarstorm.html   (2592 words)

  
 The Red Violin Movie Review at Hollywood Video
And while the performances and pacing in this sequence are on the mark, Violin presents an over-glossy version of the Revolution's tragic historical events.
Next, the instruments discovered in the music teacher's home are transported en masse to Canada where some are sold off at an auction house.
An instrument restorer (played by Pulp Fiction's Samuel L. Jackson) is brought in to assess the value of the various violins, and is quick to spot the eponymous one.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=45600   (845 words)

  
 The Red Violin - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
In almost every movie that features musical characters, the semi-trained eye knows quickly that the actors have no idea what they are doing with the instrument in their hands.
I have been informed by a cellist that although the actors were much better than most at their fakery, it was still obvious that they were not playing.
For as thrilling as the musicality at the beginning of this delicately woven tale was, I expected it to remain at the forefront of the story.
feedmyego.com /movies/R/RedViolinThe1998.html   (346 words)

  
 Pilot supplies from FlightGadgets.com, flight gear from Jeppesen, ASA, David Clark and more.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Instrument Refresher is the only flight simulator designed for instrument pilots to practice the FAA instrument currency flight
View a 2 minute Quicktime movie to become familiar with all the major features of the program.
well as the system requirements for the movie and for the flyable demo.
www.flightgadgets.com /instref.html   (394 words)

  
 The Louisville Scene - Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A haunted violin passes through three centuries of owners until it is discovered by an instrument expert (Samuel L. Jackson).
The movie is more memorable for its score by John Corigliano than its story.
violin, crafted by a master Italian instrument maker in the 1600s, passes through three centuries of owners and travels to as many continents before being discovered by a modern-day expert.
www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/rev1999/19990625redviolin.html   (408 words)

  
 Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura
Each instrument's field of view is illustrated by a beam originating from the instrument.
The instruments are designed to work together and probe the atmosphere nearly simultaneously.
Depending on their field of view, some instruments will get global coverage in one day while others will need several days of scanning to complete their coverage of the globe.
aura.gsfc.nasa.gov /project/orbitmovie.html   (229 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The concerts were reviewed on the front page of the New York Times, and the instrument was seen as the forerunner of something that was not yet known as electronic music.
It is an instrument like the inventions of Harry Partch, useful for evoking a sound that no other instrument can duplicate, essential when that sound is required, but unnecessary to the musical mainstream.
It is the kind of movie that requires a musical score only the Theremin possibly could supply.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951215/REVIEWS/512150305/1023   (690 words)

  
 Movie Vault Forums - Name That Flick #190
Maybe you can tell us what kind of music instrument he played or any other clue?!..
The same actor had to do with the family of instrument in another movie, only this other movie was very good
Tyler said it was a good actor in a bad movie who was also in a good movie but that the good movie was not the one in NTF.
www.movie-vault.com /cgi-bin/forum/showthread.php?t=1210   (332 words)

  
 The Red Violin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
concept behind “The Red Violin”, in which a famous instrument becomes the pivot of an entire biopic, following the 300 years life span of an handmade Italian violin in an episodic approach that is both beautiful, and intriguing.
this legendary musical instrument that is famous for its unusual reddish hue.
For viewers with a passion for music and instruments, this movie is a remarkably mesmerizing release, and the great presentation Universal is
www.dvdreview.com /html/the_red_violin.shtml   (1171 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Red Violin: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The odd voyage of this unique violin through history is then explored from one episode to the next, from child prodigy to gypsies to Victorian virtuoso to a clandestine enclave of art lovers in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution.
This is all framed by the violin's rediscovery in present day by instrument appraiser Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson), for whom the perfect instrument strikes a resonant chord.
And it is at that moment that the audience can finally put their mind at ease knowing that the red violin's battered and weary soul has finally found its harbour.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000031WD7?v=glance   (2053 words)

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