French Horn: Sharon Moe / Peter Gordon / Russell Rizner / Brooks Tillotson / Albert Richmond. 5. Additional Cinematography: Hillary Harris, Louis Schwarzberg, MacGillivray-Freeman. Copies are copies of copies. Optical Effects: Gamma Research. The encounter is my interest, not the meaning. NY, NY / Roddy Hui, Greene St. Recording studio NY, NY / Dominick Maita, RPM sound studio, NY, NY. So while I might have this or that intention in creating this film, I realize fully that any meaning or value Koyaanisqatsi might have comes exclusively from the beholder. 2. It invites you to consider the benevolence of technology and the notion of progess in the world we live in. Music: Philip Glass. Editors: Alton Walpole, Ron Fricke. Saxophone: Jon Gibson / Richard Peck. Prints by: Deluxe. Re-Recording Mixer: Steve Maslow, C.A.S. Trombone: Bob Smith / Keith O’Quinn. Titles & Optics: Pacific Title. Director of Photography: Ron Fricke. Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet: Jack Kripl. 4.
We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. 1982. Director of Distribution & Promotion: Mel Lawrence.

In our world the “original” is the proliferation of the standardized. Life out of balance. Art has no intrinsic meaning. Koyaanisqatsi lets you experience the acceleration and density of modern society in a new way. A world out of balance. Voice of “Koyaanisqatsi”: Albert de Ruiter. Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio’s debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy.

The musical score was composed by Philip Glass. Directed by Godfrey Reggio Music by Philip Glass. Koyaanisqatsi. Digital tape machine: Frank Dickinson / Digital by Dickinson Bloomfield, NJ. Recording: Joe Lopes. Editing Consultant: Dennis Jakob. Crazy life. It invites you to consider the benevolence of technology and the notion of progess in the world we live in. Saxophone, Bass Clarinet: Bob Mintzer. Chorus: The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble. Solo Organ: Michael Riesman. If meaning is the point, then propaganda and advertising is the form.

3. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. Music Consultants: Marcia Mikulak, Walter Bachauer. © 1983 Original sound recording made by Institute of Regional Education. CREDITS: Produced & Directed by Godfrey Reggio. 2. Cello: Seymour Barab / Beverley Lauridsen / Kermit Moore / Frederick Zlotkin. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning “life out of balance.” Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds — urban life and technology versus the environment. Presented by Francis Ford Coppola. Music Director & Additional Music: Michael Hoenig. Special thanks: Harold Orenstein / Lloyd Trufelman. Concept: Godfrey Reggio. SYNOPSIS: A non-verbal film integrating images, music and ideas contrasting scenes from America’s natural and urban landscapes. CAST: b trb, tuba, 2 hn, 3 trp, vox (6), fl, sop sax, ten sax, organ, cb, pic, va, vc.
Crazy life. So in the sense of art, the meaning of Koyaanisqatsi is whatever you wish to make of it. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. Vocals: Western Wind Ensemble, Albert Du Ruiter-Solo Bass. Hopi Prophecy Consultants: Thomas F. Tarbet, Dr. Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lowatewama, James Kootshongsie, Dennis Kootshongsie, John Kimmey. Timers: Bob Hagans, Matvey Shatz. Tibetan Bells: Nancy Hennings, Henry Wolff. Life disintegrating. Ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning “life out of balance.” Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds — urban life and technology versus the environment.

Camera Assistants: Robert Hill, David Brownlow, Roger McNew, Neil Bockman. Scenario: Ron Fricke, Godfrey Reggio, Michael Hoenig. Linguistic Research on Title: Dr. Ekkehart Malotki Michael Lowatewama.

That being said, my intention in-other-words, let me describe the bigger picture. Philip Glass Music: Produced & Recorded by Kurt Munkacsi. Life in turmoil. NOTES: Ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. Koyaanisqatsi is, after all, an animated object, an object in moving time, the meaning of which is up to the viewer. Life in turmoil. Associate Cinematographer: Christine Gibson. We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. A pioneering art film of the late 20th Century. 75′ Music by Philip Glass. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive. Title Design: Paul Pascarella. Keyboards: Michael Riesman. Life disintegrating.

Audio & Electronic Engineering: Michael Stocker. Art is free. All music published by Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc. New York (ASCAP). RCA studio.

Koyaanisqatsi lets you experience the acceleration and density of modern society in a new way. Koyaanisqatsi (complete original soundtrack). Piccolo, Flute: Tom Nyfenger.

Trombone: James Pugh. It stimulates the viewer to insert their own meaning, their own value.

A state of life that calls for another way of living. Koyaanisqatsi attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! 3. Optical Consultant: Thomas Edmon. Bass: John Beal / John Bongiorno. A state of life that calls for another way of living.

Associate Producers: Lawrence Taub, T. Michael Powers, Alton Walpole, Roger McNew, Mel Lawrence, IRE Coordinator: Stephen Goldin. Koyaanisqatsi attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! Music & Effects Editor: David Rivas. Creative Consultant: Bradford Smith. This album contains selections from the soundtrack of the motion picture Koyaanisqatsi… a film that, without dialogue or narrative structure, produces a unique and intense look at the super structure of modern life. Trumpet: Lew Soloff / Charles Lewis / Lowell Hershey / Mark Gould / Allan Dean.

This is the highest value of any work of art, not predetermined meaning, but meaning gleaned from the experience of the encounter. Dolby Consultant: David W. Gray.

Life out of balance. Inspiration & Ideas: Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich, David Monongye, Guy DeBord, Leopold Kohr. Bass Trombone: George Flynn. Music Re-Recorded at Goldwyn Sound Facility. 5.

Remix: Kurt Munkacsi / Michael Riesman / Greene St. Recording studio, NY, NY. Viola: Jill Jaffe / Sue Pray / Theodore Israel / Jean Dane. Dramaturge: Walter Bachauer. Tuba: Warren Deck / Samuel Pilafian. Koyaanisqatsi is not so much about something, nor does it have a specific meaning or value. The film’s role is to provoke, to raise questions that only the audience can answer. Conducted by Michael Riesman. Philip Glass Ensemble Live in Monterrey, Mexico, Three Songs / Songs from Liquid Days / Vessels. Associate Editor: Anne Miller. The musical score was composed by Philip Glass. Processing by: TVC Labs. 4. Distribution Research: Ronald P. Gold. This is its power, its mystery, and hence, its attraction. Assistant Editors: Robert Hill, Tove Johnson, Susan Marcinkus.