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	What Is "The Matrix"?
		Music that does not use this fundamentally tonal distinction between chromatic scale members that are enharmonically the same is easier to analyze without the confusion of this system.
		The analysis of music based on parsing melodies and chords into these small collections of pitch classes is useful in non-functional music where no serial process is involved, and also it can be useful in analyzing the construction of a particular tone row and the atonal results of its use in a complex work.
		The process of serializing musical elements other than pitch involves the selection of twelve (or however many elements are in the series used in the piece) rhythmic values, dynamic levels, types of attacks, etc. The row orderings are then followed in adding all of these parameters to the music.
	www.robertkelleyphd.com /12-tone.htm (3502 words)

	The Matrix Revolutions: Music composed and conducted by Don Davis: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews November 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The tag line to The Matrix Revolutions reads "Everything that has a beginning has an end." Well here is presumably the final Matrix album, and while general opinion is that the films have got worse with each instalment, the albums have got better and better.
		Even the video game album Enter the Matrix (which hasn't been officially released) was an improvement, concentrating entirely on the orchestral side of the Matrix sound, the music being composed very much in Davis style by Erik Lundborg, one of the orchestrators on the films.
		A gentle and deeply melancholy romantic setting of the Trinity music, this may be the most immediately notable track for being the only one devoid of almost continuous uproar.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2003/Nov03/matrix_revolutions.html (683 words)

	Matrix (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, especially folk and popular music, a matrix (van der Merwe 1989) is an element of variations which does not change.
		Musical matrices may be combined in any number, usually more than two, and may be, and must be for analysis, broken down into smaller ones.
		In music mathematical matrices (matrix (mathematics)) are used in the visualization of all permutations or forms of a tone row or set in music written using the twelve tone technique or serialism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matrix_(music) (346 words)

	The Matrix (1999)
		Music could have been a little more dynamic, but the score and songs were mostly well defined and bright.
		As is usually the case with this kind of commentary, the focus is generally limited to a discussion of the music, but Davis also offers some general information about what the filmmakers were trying to achieve.
		It's a fairly brief commentary - this film contains a lot of music - and it's kind of a hassle to listen to, since you have to skip past the music, but I found it to be pretty interesting.
	www.dvdmg.com /matrix.shtml (2291 words)

	The Matrix - Music Soundtrack by Don Davis
		Being the first film in a trilogy and indeed the start of a whole franchise, The Matrix was the film which established many aspects of the subsequent films.
		This omission was later redressed with the release of the soundtrack album of music by Don Davis.
		In its own way the music was just as trend-setting as some of the stunning camera works and effects from the film, and compared to the majority of film soundtracks it was "modernistic".
	www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/the-matrix.htm (686 words)

	Filmtracks: The Matrix Reloaded (Don Davis)
		Interestingly, the original was not predicted to be the smashing success that it was, and thus, the studio did not insist on an A-list composer for the task of scoring the project, allowing instead the hiring of the very talented, but lesser known Don Davis for the post-modern scoring project.
		His music is fleshed out, with more interesting instrumentation, a dramatic use of choral accompaniment, and, surprisingly, a decent amount of harmony.
		For film music fans, the first CD is a waste, with the Dougan "Furious Angels" track being the only cue tolerable to classical ears (and, honestly, it should have appeared with Dougan's other cue on the second CD).
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/matrix_reloaded.html (1548 words)

	The Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Davis is certainly an excellent composer, and his skills as an orchestrator have been honed to such an extent that the music in The Matrix is consistently and genuinely interesting to listen to - Davis has allowed his music to contain a fair share of surprises during its 30-minute running time.
		Because of The Matrix's enormous box-office success in the United States, the profile of Don Davis looks certain to ascend along with that of Reeves, Moss and the Wachowski brothers.
		As a piece of music, The Matrix is thoroughly entertaining, but is in no way Davis' best work to date, mainly because of the obviously heavy influence of the Alien scores.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /matrixcd.htm (390 words)

	The Matrix Revolutions
		Continuing the linear stylistic transition that began in Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions is the most traditionally symphonic score of the trilogy, eschewing a great of the thunderous electronics from the previous two scores and concentrating on by-the-book choral and orchestral majesty.
		This is not to say that The Matrix Revolutions is in any way simplistic: on the contrary, Davis has still managed to work in some of the most challenging, fiendishly clever, and structurally brilliant orchestral writing heard in a box-office blockbuster for many a year.
		The Matrix Revolutions is a quite magnificent album and, when combined with the previous two scores to make an all-encompassing "work", can surely be regarded as one of the most important contributions to film music of the late 1990s/early 2000s.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /matrix3cd.htm (843 words)

	Action Vault - Enter the Matrix Music Interview
		Erik Lundborg: My role was to incorporate music from The Matrix, The Matrix: Reloaded and the anime The Final Flight of Osiris, and develop its themes in conjunction with the game's particular musical requirements.
		In film, the entire experience is an unfolding; the music is typically composed in smaller sequences and is ultimately combined into one long wave with crests and troughs, scrupulously following the action on the screen.
		The music must enhance the game play and be able to be endlessly combined in different ways, depending on the actions of the player.
	actionvault.ign.com /features/interviews/matrixmusicint.shtml (1539 words)

	Erik Lundborg: Enter The Matrix \| Cinemusic.net Soundtrack Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Davis became so busy with The Matrix Reloaded, that he enlisted his assistant and orchestrator Erik Lundborg, to adapt material from the first two Matrix scores, as well as compose some of his own original material for the game.
		The album is arranged in a sort of "demo" form with all the action stuff lumped together in the beginning, then more ambient suspense, and finally ending with music from the various cinematic scenes throughout the game.
		This is challenging music, but there still seems to be another level of energy that is in Davis's scores, but absent from here.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2003/enter_the_matrix.html (652 words)

	Amazon.com: The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		This CD contains most of the music from "The Matrix", both songs and instrumentals, that was not written by Don Davis and considered part of the film's score.
		I would have preferred the music and score from "The Matrix" to be boxed together in a 2-CD set, but this CD does have merit on its own as a nice introduction to contemporary metal and techno.
		Propellerheads' "Spybreak!", which was used in "The Matrix's" mind-blowing lobby scene, more strongly evokes a scene from the film than any other piece of music.
	www.amazon.com /Matrix-Music-Motion-Picture/dp/B00000IFW8 (1060 words)

	SongwriterUniverse Magazine - The Matrix Article
		Christy (who is married to Edwards; they are both from Scotland) had written and recorded two albums as a solo artist for Mercury Records in the mid-90s (Lauren Christy and Breed), and had a hit song, “Steep.” She also co-wrote and recorded the theme song to the Bruce Willis movie, Color Of The Night.
		The matrix is a name for the womb, or the rock, which everything comes from.
		The Matrix was very pleased with their work with Lavigne, but they didn’t realize until many months later how successful her album would become.
	www.songwriteruniverse.com /matrix.htm (1223 words)

	Music \| The Matrix reloaded
		Their previous two albums adhered to clichés that didn’t change much between the Sonics in the mid-’60s and the Makers in the mid-’90s: wraparound shades, bowl cuts, tight fl slacks, and trebly fuzz guitars.
		The disc sounds like what most 15-year-olds probably hold in their mind’s eye when they imagine what the ’60s and ’70s were like: free love, clean drugs, happy psychedelia, up-with-people optimism.
		Since the Matrix is essentially great songwriters in search of artists with attitude, it’s a perfect match — a marriage of style and substance, to which frontman Sonny James seems to be alluding on the new disc’s opening track, "Primitive Condition": "Ooh, baby, you’re the missing link/between my brain and my instinct."
	bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/04091517.asp (530 words)

	MatrixFillmore - Homepage - San Francisco
		The Matrix was opened by Marty Balin in 1965 as a place for his new band to play.
		On opening night the band finally chose their name, Jefferson Airplane, and from that moment on, The Matrix was the place for the famous bands of the 1960's in San Francisco, bridging folk and psychedelic rock.
		The Matrix closed in 1972 but was brought back to life in 2001 with a hip and futuristic twist that instantly became a favorite of San Francisco's night owls.
	www.plumpjack.com /pjmatrix/index.html (185 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Matrix Reloaded: Music: Original Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		You certainly get the impression that the Warchowski's have come to see this as the theme music to the second film as it repeats so often to be very familiar to someone who hasn't heard the album.
		This is film music that builds and builds as fits the needs of the images on screen but is also very listenable without the images.
		The music is just not on a par with the original soundtrack, or the sublime Animatrix soundtrack.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Matrix-Reloaded-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B00008W2OO (1715 words)

	12 Tone Music - The Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Write P0 in the leftmost box of the second row and then write in your tone row across the same row of the matrix, using the numbers 0-11 to represent the chromatic scale c c# d d# e f f# g g# a a# b.
		The whole matrix was derived from the original tone-row series.
		But using this matrix for musical composition is not as easy as you might think.
	www.duckmusic.free-online.co.uk /hatton/serial/matrix.htm (859 words)

	The Matrix
		When Anderson realizes of his predicament he teams up with Morpheus, the leader of a gang of freedom fighters, to reclaim their individuality and 'wake up' the world.
		Showbiz about the "Matrix" sequels: "We are going to do Matrix 2 and Matrix 3 simultaneously.
		Essentially, the boys [writers/directors the Wachowski brothers] intended to make Matrix because they wanted to find a way to make a superhero movie today where the audience would accept superheroes in a way that wouldn't feel to them like Saturday morning television.
	www.movie-page.com /1999/Matrix.htm (1017 words)

	The Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Matrix concerns a young man who goes by the name of Neo (Keanu Reeves) who discovers that reality as you and I know it is a falsehood pulled over our eyes to keep us docile and in a state of slavery (Total Recall, 1984).
		This, however, is no different from the original theatrical exhibition, in which the music caused a lot of popped ears.
		The score music is surprisingly well made, given some of the sequences it was used in.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/MatrixDean.asp (2048 words)

	ScoreTrack.Net - Music for Movies: Soundtrack Review from Enter The Matrix
		Since the music for the game had to keep the orchestral mood and signatures from the series, it wasn´t easy for Lundborg to write something really unique.
		Faithful to his own concept of game music Lundborg composed a very nice collection from what I call "generic" music where the individual tracks are labeled as "Action/Fighting", "Suspense", "Impending Danger", "Asian Wind" and "Cineractives" (these heard in the movie sequences integrated to the game, a must for Matrix fans).
		All the music in the album is nicely performed by the Seattle Symphony conducted by Lundborg.
	www.scoretrack.net /CDenterthematrix_e.html (458 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Matrix - Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture: Music: Original Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The cynical wireheads who flock to such high-tech conspiracy flicks as Brazil and Hackers are thrill0seekers of the highest calibre, and The Matrix soundtrack meets this challenge faster than a speeding cyborg.
		It may sound dismal, but the friction permeating this compilation of techno, grind-core, and heavy metal is energising enough to make fans of these genres feel the same unity as a clandestine community of hackers.
		All the soundtracks and music from the movie is included and this is an excellent album for the Matrix fan.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Matrix-Music-Inspired-Motion-Picture/dp/B00003WFVS (819 words)

	The Matrix, Serial Music Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		To facilitate composing or analysis of serial music, it is useful to represent all four transformations of a row in each of the transpositions (thus 48 possible forms) in a 12 x 12 matrix.
		Notice that the first row of the matrix is the Prime 0 row, P0.
		Also, notice that the main diagonal of the matrix consists of the pitch class number 0.
	www.wsu.edu /~dpalmen/mathlessons/html/serialmusic/matrix.html (150 words)

	IGN: The Matrix Revolutions: Music From The Motion Picture Review
		The Matrix Revolutions caps off Don Davis' journey with the Wachowski Brothers (as far as we know) with some exceedingly dense and complex orchestrations mixed with state-of-the-art electronica.
		It is very aggressive, almost chaotic at times, but with repeat listenings we've come to appreciate some of the more structured nuances in the tunes, especially in relation to the choral movements.
		Unfortunately, unlike a symphony, The Matrix Revolutions is full of too many stops and starts, too many three minute songs to allow for full immersion into the experience.
	music.ign.com /articles/501/501033p1.html (763 words)

	IGN: The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture Review
		From the aggro leanings of the musical antichrist, the album swerves into the slick, electronic blitz of The Propellerheads' quintessential spy disco riff "Spybreak (Short One)." The track is an expert coalescence of speed shifting rhythms and elegantly methed-out synth blasts.
		The biggest flaw to The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture is the ping-pong nature of the track sequence.
		But then maybe the album producers wanted to simulate the jolting shifts between reality and the matrix that the characters in the film undergo.
	music.ign.com /articles/401/401458p1.html (863 words)

	The Matrix Revolutions Soundtrack Reviews @ Movie Music . com
		Viewers have come to expect a certain genre of music to be associated with this movie and the tracks in this one certainly live up to their "expected" reputation.
		If you like the fact that Davis's music became more sentimentally complex since the very dark score to the first film, and if you regard "The Matrix Reloaded suite" from the second CD to be incredible, and especially if you are not looking for dance music, I strongly urge you to pick up this CD.
		The middle part is a bit fragmented and too noisy, missing the point of music, but the rest is perfect.
	www.moviemusic.com /comments.asp?mm=matrix3&author=1 (786 words)

	The MATRIX
		The MATRIX is a new musical instrument that gives users a 3-dimensional tactile interface to control sound with their hand(s).
		The MATRIX generates musical output by mapping a performer's expressive gestures to a variety of sonic parameters.
		One mapping uses the individual rods of the MATRIX to directly control the digital waveform of a sound, thereby "sonically sculpting" the timbre of the sound.
	xenia.media.mit.edu /~dano/matrix (642 words)

	Enter The Matrix - Music from the Movies
		Another highlight of the game music scene, Erik Lundborg's score for the highly popular and critically acclaimed Enter The Matrix game, is filled with exciting action music written for full orchestra.
		Lundborg, who has been working with composer Don Davis since House On Haunted Hill and was involved in the orchestrations for The Matrix: Reloaded and the upcoming The Matrix: Revolutions, builds this score around thematic ideas introduced in the films which is, quite naturally, written in the same style as the film scores.
		Game music these days such as the orchestral works of Richard Jacques, Michael Giacchino, Jesper Kyd, Bill Brown and now Erik Lundborg, is actually of a higher quality than the majority of Hollywood film scores today.
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=14 (664 words)

	Matrix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matrix (biology), the material between animal or plant cells or the material in the inner membrane of a mitochondrion
		Matrix (numismatics), an intermediate into which the design of a coin is engraved
		Matrix (music), an element of variations which does not change, especially in folk and popular music
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matrix (451 words)

	The Matrix by Don Davis \| Cinemusic.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Matrix, already a film event of this year, is hailed as one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.
		A lot of this music is an edgy, strident underscore with fast strings and explosive percussions.
		There is no real central theme, but the music does have fascinating, rich orchestrations and very intense string movements, which appear to be Davis' forté.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/1999/matrix.html (375 words)

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