Uploaded June 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Experimental piece by Stefaan Himpe, inspired by the poem "Twilight" by Samuel Menashe.
This piece is made in the context of a youtube composer's experiment (the Youtube Composer's Legendary League -"YouCoLeLe Twilight") where every participating composer is supposed to write some music around the theme "Twilight". If you are interested in participating on a next occasion with a new theme, feel free to add a comment here, so you can be notified about it. All styles are welcome.
Q&A
Q. Who wrote the poem?
A. It is poem written by Samuel Menashe, called "Twilight".
The rights for the poem belong to Bloodaxe books (bloodaxebooks.com/).
Q. What is this YouCoLeLe thing ?
A. Please refer to my blog: http://a-touch-of-music.blogspot.com.
Q. Do you only write weird music?
A. No. I have written a fair share of "normal" music, but Youtube is my playground ;)
Q. Are you just bashing random keys?
A. No. In fact the score is visible throughout the video. While you can try to transcribe it from there, it may be easier to just download it from my blog (when published). It won't include the words, though.
Q. Are you insane?
A. Aren't we all?
Q. How did you make the video?
A. I used a Panasonic HDC-SD20 camera to film me playing the thing. I made the score in lilypond (http://lilypond.org). I used gimp (http://www.gimp.org) to convert the score to transparent .png files, and then used all of those materials in kdenlive (http://kdenlive.org) to create the video. I normally record the sound digitally but my sound recorder doesn't work properly at the moment, so the piece is "naturally enhanced" with "environmental noise". Ahem.
Q. Why is there no rythm in this piece?
A. There is, it just is very basic. It's all about harmonies and colors, impressions instilled by the poem.
Q. Can I get my Q&A here too?
A. Leave me comment and if I deem your question worthy of addition, I might add it with a reply.
Experimental piece by Stefaan Himpe, inspired by the poem "Twilight" by Samuel Menashe.
This piece is made in the context of a youtube composer's experiment (the Youtube Composer's Legendary League -"YouCoLeLe Twilight") where every participating composer is supposed to write some music around the theme "Twilight". If you are interested in participating on a next occasion with a new theme, feel free to add a comment here, so you can be notified about it. All styles are welcome.
Q&A
Q. Who wrote the poem?
A. It is poem written by Samuel Menashe, called "Twilight".
The rights for the poem belong to Bloodaxe books (bloodaxebooks.com/).
Q. What is this YouCoLeLe thing ?
A. Please refer to my blog: http://a-touch-of-music.blogspot.com.
Q. Do you only write weird music?
A. No. I have written a fair share of "normal" music, but Youtube is my playground ;)
Q. Are you just bashing random keys?
A. No. In fact the score is visible throughout the video. While you can try to transcribe it from there, it may be easier to just download it from my blog (when published). It won't include the words, though.
Q. Are you insane?
A. Aren't we all?
Q. How did you make the video?
A. I used a Panasonic HDC-SD20 camera to film me playing the thing. I made the score in lilypond (http://lilypond.org). I used gimp (http://www.gimp.org) to convert the score to transparent .png files, and then used all of those materials in kdenlive (http://kdenlive.org) to create the video. I normally record the sound digitally but my sound recorder doesn't work properly at the moment, so the piece is "naturally enhanced" with "environmental noise". Ahem.
Q. Why is there no rythm in this piece?
A. There is, it just is very basic. It's all about harmonies and colors, impressions instilled by the poem.
Q. Can I get my Q&A here too?
A. Leave me comment and if I deem your question worthy of addition, I might add it with a reply.
![[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")
