The Kennedy Center’s inaugural Direct Current festival is a celebration of contemporary music and art. Composer Philip Glass, after taking part in a performance of his piano études last week, returned ...

Fusing dramatic imagery and a powerful soundtrack, Geoffrey Reggio”s “Koyaanisqatsi” has set the standard of interaction between music and film. Taken from the Hopi language, “Koyaanisqatsi” indicates ...

Thirty-five years ago, when Godfrey Reggio asked Philip Glass to make music for his film “Koyaanisqatsi,” Glass said he wasn’t a film composer. Well, that’s certainly changed. The groundbreaking 1983 ...

God, I hate Philip Glass. Well, that might be a little too harsh. For an hour I’ve been sitting in a chair listening to Glass’ soundtrack to the film Koyaanisqatsi, swept along by the frantic, ...

Thirty-five years ago, when Godfrey Reggio asked Philip Glass to make music for his film “Koyaanisqatsi,” Glass said he wasn’t a film composer. Well, that’s certainly changed. The groundbreaking 1983 ...

There are people in this world that make a living by filming space rocket launches across the globe. Thanks to them, we’re always in the loop when it comes to space exploration, and over the years ...

It has been 26 years since Godfrey Reggio’s film “Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance” had its premiere. Images shot in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s of waste, war, consumerism, destruction, ...

Koyaanisqatsi and its sequels are of a unique form of art. Combining poetic cinematography and moving music, these films immerse the viewer in a world of visual and auditory sensation. This is not, ...

To the classical modernist it's a masterpiece of post-serialist synthesizer composition, meticulously synchronized to startling imagery. To the ecologically minded it's a potent extended metaphor for ...

If there’s one film that encapsulates the purest form of visual storytelling, Koyaanisqatsi may be it. While its official genre may be documentary, director Godfrey Reggio’s masterwork certainly won’t ...