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Karl Hyde recommended 2001: A Space Odyssey by Richard Strauss in Music (curated)

 
2001: A Space Odyssey by Richard Strauss
2001: A Space Odyssey by Richard Strauss
1968
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I was 11 when this film came out and it was the first time I ever went to see a film twice in one week. It blew me away and changed my life. Not just the film, but largely [György] Ligeti's atonal choral pieces. This discordant, sometimes beautiful, intertwining of voices, that were dark and then beautiful and then disturbing and then uplifting. I went out and bought the album, and then put it on my record player in my room and shut myself in my wardrobe with a flashing light and spent hours in there. I wanted to shut myself off from the world and immerse myself completely in this extraordinary sound. And I went on to be an artist that built environments and quadrophonic sound spaces – purely based on this experience. And years later, when we came to write the score for Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, I said, "do you think 2001 can be referenced?" and Danny said, "absolutely", and that was just like heaven for me. This album is at the core of where my head’s at. One minute it will be playing some Brahms and then it’s playing this beautiful, yet discordant, choral music and I think like that now. This is the rhythm of my bones. Something for the future is to score for a choir."

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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated ONI in Video Games

Aug 30, 2019  
ONI
ONI
2001 | Action, Fighting, Shooter
7
7.5 (8 Ratings)
Video Game Rating
Story, plot, combat tactics, characters, style. (0 more)
Rough control, occasional awkward camera placement, gun control! (0 more)
An overlooked bungie Gem that was too ahead of its time.
Contains spoilers, click to show
Oni is a third person action videogame developed by Bungie (west).
Released in 2001 it was Bungie wests ONLY game!?
The game focuses on shooting and hand to hand combat as you take on a reasonable amount of enemies, the gun controls are rather terrible and the combat controls are great providing you actually manage to land a strike.

ONI was originally planned to be released just for Mac, OS and Windows but was later ported to ps2 through Rockstar Canada.

The game was heavily inspired by Anime classics 'Ghost in a Shell' and 'Akira' which is very noticeable from the cover and beginning of the game (and also being set in a cyberpunk world).

Story:

Taking place in the year 2032, the world has become a dystopia due to pollution leaving very little of the planet habitable.

In order to solve the Global economic crisis, all nations formed under one banner....the world coalition government.

 You play as agent Konoko (voiced by Amanda winn-Lee) a member of the TCTF (Technological Crimes Task Force), working against a crime organisation known as The Syndicate. Whilst blasting through enemies konoko begins to unravel secrets promoting more questions than answers.