What's the closest thing to real magic?

I didn't see your tag.

I just went with my first thought, sorry.
:)

No worries.
I wrote the question just for fun - so it really doesn't matter which way the conversation flows.
It's more the engagement that counts.

Thank you. I did find it fascinating to listen to that track - the emotions changed with such soft segues and yet were so unexpected when they came.

HUGE MISTAKE ON MY PART!!!

This clip I posted is NOT how the music happens -- I did not listen to the entire clip. This is a mishmash of "moments in the movie"  I'm sorry. Damn.

I'm pissed. 

at 1:55  the theme ends (not really - - there is more musical quietness that fades away) -- but whoever put this clip together just throws another TOO LOUD out-of-context moment  -- and I'm not so happy with the result.

I might repost just the music. I don't like the hodgepodge, out-of-order images from the movie being shown anyway - - they don't match the movie. And the sudden music changes - - I don't like. (In context of the movie, of course, all of the music makes sense and is great to me - - but not put together in this way.)

I might repost a better clip that is just music. Darn it.

It's been a long day --- I admit I let my mistake anger me. :)  I might try again another time.

Thanks for listening!!

I like the fact that Jerry Goldsmith uses a harmonica in the score -- the movie is about a ventriloquist who becomes overwhelmed by/ with his dummy.
:)

In my anger, I forgot to like your reply.  :)

Good point! :)

Is this the real magic? That pure sound can affect our emotions so viscerally?

Do you play an instrument?

Maybe, yes! Music has always done that for me. Always.  :)

Piano, pipe organ, electric bass, euphonium

Aah, you are a musician, a real one.

What genres of music do you mostly prefer?

And what kind do you mostly play?

Are you part of a group?

I hope to come back another time and add more. Sorry. Work has been very time consuming. I'm still letting that whole "Magic" clip bother me.  :)

But, very quickly -- if you are unfamiliar with her music, look up Laurie Anderson -- she is a music genre all to herself! I love it all.
The first thing I heard of hers was "O Superman" -- been a fan ever since.

This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at December 17, 2020 6:23 PM MST

I bet you've transformed your place into a sparkling wonderland.

Do you rearrange the same items into new configurations
or do you add new stuff every year?

Ya I buy about $50 of new things every year plus our oldest son and his family usally buy me something sparkly and festive for my Christmas present. Cheers!

I'll bet your place brings delight to your neighbours and grandkids. :)

Yeah, that seems true to me.
:)

Yeah, even having learned how tiny electrons can be forced to jump down a line at light speed,
I still find it mysterious that potential energy is thus transformed into kinetic without an apparent loss of mass somewhere at the start.
I can see mass lost in the burning of coal, perhaps in nuclear processes too. But in hydro, wind and solar power, it appears that an already kinetic force is the source of the drive.
It still seems magical - and maybe that's because it occurs at a scale below the Newtonian level at which my sense perception operates. Even if my eyes see light, they see not the photons, but the reflected spectrum.

Dang, girl...I told you they don't go light speed.

Woops. I'm a bad student.
I thought the video said they did. I'd better watch it again. Maybe it said "almost" at light speed.

Not even close. You need a private tutor...at your service.

Our shack got struck by lightning two nights ago.
The sound-shock vibrated through everything.

We get plenty of lightning storms every summer - yet in 18 years this is the first time we've been struck. Fortunately, there was no damage.

Does anyone know what factors make lightning strike a particular place when it seems to be so random?

You have produced for me two science lessons. Thank you. Answers later...I am about to turn in. Fun awaits.

They won't anyway.

Awesome!
Even though a physicist friend assures me that the maths is valid, I still can't wrap my head around that amazing theory. :)