MTCD Productions

A boutique collective armed with a strategic agency & approach: to serve audio & visual for the appreciator who believes diversity & inclusion is the standard.

[MTCD Productions @MTCDProductions]

We've created an investor portal for individuals and fans of independent music who would like to donate and invest in future @MTCDProductions & @MustWeWait4Ever music like @TheehMTeeShow; no amount is too small, and thank you: https://t.co/TtjGpmNEFn

[Michael Thorner @MichaelThorner]

FYI I am playing the Steinway at the Doug Wright Awards this Saturday June 6, at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm St. Ceremony starts at 8, and I start playing after 7. It’s free for the public, and celebrates the best in Canadian sequential art. It’s fun. Come!

[MTCD Productions @MTCDProductions]

“It was the 3rd of June…” From 2011. #bobbiegentry #cover

https://t.co/57cdTXnO3K

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Apple Music Playlist: I DON'T WANNA GO OUTSIDE curated by ehMTee. Songs to stay in and resonate with, for those times you don’t want to leave your safe space. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/wgW89o7Cbo

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Spotify Playlist: TIME ZONES curated by ehMTee. A selection of songs, composers, and performances I love, which have long inspired me as an artist. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/ax75Aqwbka

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Apple Music Playlist: TIME ZONES curated by ehMTee. A selection of songs, composers, and performances I love, which have long inspired me as an artist. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/1zDwJ6ZLdo

[Michael Thorner @MichaelThorner]

Today—May 17th—is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. Let’s all stand against hate and bigotry today and every day.

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Apple Music Playlist: DON'T! LET IT GO! curated by ehMTee. A selection of all-time favourite upbeat-friendly pop songs by all-time favourite artists. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/IjBIltNTZY

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Spotify Playlist: DON'T! LET IT GO! curated by ehMTee. A selection of all-time favourite upbeat-friendly pop songs by all-time favourite artists. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/QIEZun59rZ

[ryuichi sakamoto @ryuichisakamoto]

SKMT | dig 🌑

The Last Emperor Theme (1987)
By Ryuichi Sakamoto
From The Last Emperor Original Soundtrack

Listen: https://t.co/mDLXLYhIau

The assignment Bertolucci gave Sakamoto was, by Sakamoto's own description, three contradictions held in tension at once: the music had to evoke the mood of 1920s and 30s China while remaining unmistakably contemporary; it had to use Chinese material without becoming Chinese music — just as the film itself, though set in China, remains a European film; and it had to carry the melodic memorability of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence while replacing its intimate, personal motifs with something of vast historical sweep.
(from Gekkan Kadokawa 1988)

To find his footing, Sakamoto worked through a 20-volume anthology of Chinese music — spanning ancient to modern — and identified the most fundamental instrumentation: the guzheng, the pipa, and the erhu. His solution was direct, almost architectural: take those instruments and simply add them to a Western orchestra. The friction between the two worlds (East and West) was the point.
(from SELDOM-ILLEGAL 1989)

The theme is built on a pentatonic core — Mi, So, La, Si, Re — into which two notes, F♯ and C, quietly enter. Those two notes enter through the pull of chord progressions, creating a modal ambiguity he found impossible to fully untangle. Chinese music, he observed, shifts its modal center mid-piece in ways that neither traditional logic nor Western harmony alone can explain. It was precisely this slight deviation from the pentatonic — this resistance to neat categorization — that he felt answered Bertolucci's original brief to make it emotional. He labored hard over those two notes.(from Keyboard Special 1988)

Jiang Jianhua, the erhu virtuoso who performed on the score, recalled meeting Sakamoto in a Tokyo studio in 1987: "He was very polite and humble. He told us that he didn't know much about traditional Chinese instruments, but he needed them for the soundtrack. He asked me to keep playing while he composed."
(from China Daily)

The same Jiang Jianhua would later perform on Sakamoto's arrangement of SOGEN JOKA.

#skmtnews
#skmtdig
#soundtrack
#ryuichisakamoto
#thelastemperor

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Spotify Playlist: INTRO THEMES curated by ehMTee. Our favourite theme songs to classic tv shows. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/ibBT1IC8UO

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Apple Music Playlist: INTRO THEMES curated by ehMTee. Our favourite theme songs to classic tv shows. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/8xosmNzi0F

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Spotify Playlist: I DON'T WANNA GO OUTSIDE curated by ehMTee. Songs to stay in and resonate with, for those times you don’t want to leave your safe space. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/mCxVlv3Kp3

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Spotify Playlist: BROADWAY SONGS curated by ehMTee. The most sapio, over-the-top, bottoms-up, fence or fence-free theatrical song curation in the history of Broadway. Save and enjoy!
https://t.co/V8O5ZX62uu

[The ehMTee Show @TheehMTeeShow]

Apple Music Playlist: BROADWAY SONGS curated by ehMTee. The most sapio, over-the-top, bottoms-up, fence or fence-free theatrical song curation in the history of Broadway.
https://t.co/qUJeIdRzW8

[Michael Thorner @MichaelThorner]

I just published SKULKING THROUGH EXISTENCE IN WALTZ TIME https://t.co/4PgOsLaUAd

[Michael Thorner @MichaelThorner]

I just published THE HEART BEAT CIRCUS https://t.co/YiymKOncdJ

[MTCD Productions @MTCDProductions]

Brilliant short film up for an Oscar this year.

https://t.co/4nrNe6AYeA

[Michael Thorner @MichaelThorner]

Happy Valentine's Day!
Concept sketch for unknown project
early 1990s
#mtcdproductions

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

💔 Rest well Bud Cort (1948-2026).

[Brian Wilson @BrianWilsonLive]

60 year ago today – Pet Sounds tracking session: Working with Engineer Chuck Britz, Brian recorded eight vocal insert overdubs for the track “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder).” This demonstrates Brian’s building vocal tracks. https://t.co/8Iuj7HExA1