In the grand tradition of Glenn Gould’s So You Want To Write A Fugue comes a wonderfully self-referential “instructional” video on fugue writing by NYU student and chess enthusiast Danny Pi.
Created for James Gardner’s Sight and Sound course (Pi is a Film and Television student at the Tisch School of the Arts), this little video makes us laugh out loud with its use of the theme from Britney Spears’ Oops!… I Did It Again.
Described by Pi as “silly” and “pretentious”, he is absolutely right – and though he claims to not understand why people like it, I think that you’ll agree that it is both fun and delightful. I for one am a big fan. It doesn’t reach the heights of the works that precede it (SYWTWAF and the Solitude Trilogy) but then, it’s not supposed to. It’s simply clever and cute. Enough said.
RESOURCES
So You Want To Write A Fugue, by Glenn Gould
Gould’s Solitude Trilogy, featuring his “contrapuntal” radio, found also in the short Pi example.
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