Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4

154K views · 14 years ago · animation · historical

A vintage Sesame Street animated segment, Geometry of Circles, scored by composer Philip Glass. Geometric shapes move to his minimalist music.

HN people share it as an example of how creative and ambitious Sesame Street's animation and music segments used to be, and credit it for lasting tastes in music.

“I blame this for my interest in modern classical.”

4 comments from Hacker News

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@SavantIdiot2021 · in “'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay”
Philip Glass scored an animation for Sesame Street. ▶ this video I blame this for my interest in modern classical. I can't imagine them doing something so progressive today. But that's because they had a captive audience in the 70's.
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@krapp2018 · in “Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years”
Sesame Street had so many great creative and musical segments before it turned into the Elmo show. It didn't talk down to children or insult their intelligence. It inspired children rather than just try to hypnotize them with colors and repetition to shut them up for an hour. link ▶ this video link link link
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@throw0101b2023 · in “Sesame Street Pinball Number Count [video]”
Somewhat related, but their "Geometry of Circles" was written by Philip Glass: * ▶ this video * link * link
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@leviathant2023 · in “If Philip Glass was a Film (2019) [video]”
I thought this was going to be a link to the Sesame Street animation that he scored @ ▶ this video If I had access to this sixteen years ago, I would have recreated the animations in Flash, but after Flash died out, I stopped playing in that field.