The Sunday supplement: #62
A new composer who doesn't wear a helmet (and other new music), an airline tip, debut fiction about racket sports, and very good, fast at-home pizza
For the Daft Punk fans in the room, did you know Thomas Bangalter, one of the helmet-ed magicians, is now a composer?
A reader reached out this week with a music recommendation (perhaps inspired by a recent New York Times article), suggesting I check out Bangalter’s new ballet/album Mythologies.
From the article:
Even without the buffed, gleamingly artificial sheen and pumping tempos of Daft Punk’s trademark sound, much of the sprawling, 23-track new album does have the clean, poised formality and propulsive rhythmic regularity of Vivaldi and Bach — and of techno.
“It was definitely a journey of learning and experimenting,” Bangalter said. “How to orchestrate, as well as the value of trial and error, and also exploring the ’70s or the ’80s. But not the 1970s or 1980s — the 1880s, or the 1780s.”
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