Uploaded September 2010 | Updated September 2026, 49 minutes ago
If you think of Maurice Ravel, you most probably think of his "Bolero". Outside musical circles it is not so well known that Ravel in fact wrote a lot of music, and in quite a different style than his bolero. Most of his music is technically very demanding and outside the reach of all but the most advanced pianists. Luckily, he also wrote some less demanding works.
In this work he shows his craftmanship by imitating the style of a russian composer (and smoothly blending it with his own original ideas).
Many thanks to Youtube user Penne, whose performance of this piece made me want to learn it too. You can contrast our approaches by watching her performance here: youtube.com/watch?v=0lJ-9LwQutI
Some technical data:
The piano is a yamaha gt2 digital grand piano. The sound is recorded on a boss br600 multi-track recorder in dry recording mode. Sound and video were mixed using kdenlive on a linux laptop running debian sid.
If you think of Maurice Ravel, you most probably think of his "Bolero". Outside musical circles it is not so well known that Ravel in fact wrote a lot of music, and in quite a different style than his bolero. Most of his music is technically very demanding and outside the reach of all but the most advanced pianists. Luckily, he also wrote some less demanding works.
In this work he shows his craftmanship by imitating the style of a russian composer (and smoothly blending it with his own original ideas).
Many thanks to Youtube user Penne, whose performance of this piece made me want to learn it too. You can contrast our approaches by watching her performance here: youtube.com/watch?v=0lJ-9LwQutI
Some technical data:
The piano is a yamaha gt2 digital grand piano. The sound is recorded on a boss br600 multi-track recorder in dry recording mode. Sound and video were mixed using kdenlive on a linux laptop running debian sid.
![[Experimental] Fish From Hell (1935, fragment) - close reading with Roland Integra-7 sax.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PrlLEFFMSSY/mqdefault.jpg "[Experimental] Fish From Hell (1935, fragment) - close reading with Roland Integra-7 sax.
Edit: Youtube had automatically turned off comments but this was not my intention. Probably some annoying bug that seems to be affecting many creators lately. A close reading of a 1935 documentary on fish. I think the idea behind this experiment will speak for itself: a transcription of the narrators voice is played by a Roland Integra-7 baritone saxophone. The documentary is at the same time amusing and (to modern eyes) horrifying. Whereas nowadays sea creatures would typically be described as majestic, mysterious and endangered, back in 1935 apparently standards were quite different. The subtitles are mine, based on what I could understand. Im pretty certain I got some things wrong...
Ken Smith reports: Essentially, this film is just murky stock footage of men on a fishing trawler. What transforms it into an epic tale of Man vs. The Sea is an amazing narration by somebody named Wilfred Lucas. Mr. Lucas pulls no punches; in this violent world, decent men kill every fish they meet. But thats okay, because as Mr. Lucas explains fish are evil and deserve to die.
The complete documentary in two parts (and the modern reviewer comments!) can be found on archive.org: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Marine+Pictures%22
The thumbnail is based on a free picture from Reimund Bertrams via pixabay.com. The free horror font is from Dimas Prasetyo, aka Dmletter31 at https://www.dafont.com/dm-studio-dimas-prasetyo.d7283")
