[Bubba Ho-Tep]

If you ever want to hear a spooky, emotional piece of music, check out "The Sinking of the Titanic" by Gavin Bryars. He takes the idea that sound will travel through water indefinitely and combines it with the music the band was playing as they sank beneath the waves. It's a symphonic piece, recorded in a giant empty water tank to give it a metallic, echo-y sound.

Youtube: The Sinking of the Titanic

Same composer also did a great piece where he took a snippet of a British homeless man singing a couple of lines of the hymn "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet," loops it, and then builds an entire symphonic accompaniment around it.

[re_nortex]

If you ever want to hear a spooky, emotional piece of music, check out "The Sinking of the Titanic" by Gavin Bryars.

Thank you. As I compose this post, I'm listening to this haunting symphonic piece.

I'm among those who prefer A Night to Remember over the James Cameron film. Maybe I'm a sentimental sap but, while listening to the Gavin Bryars piece, there is one part of the 1990's that I really do like. It's the fantasy ending sequence where Wallace Hartley (the orchestra leader, shown below) and others are shown reappearing in the approach to the Grand Staircase.

[kalee]

Still listening to it. I had not heard it before, thanks for posting.

[passionfruit]

Pinging myself for later.

[katnip]

Same composer also did a great piece where he took a snippet of a British homeless man singing a couple of lines of the hymn "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet," loops it, and then builds an entire symphonic accompaniment around it.

For some reason I wanted to hear that and found this link.... It's gorgeous.. thanks so much for making that comment.

youtube link