ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a comparison takes place between Naqoyqatsi and Cohen's recent text, both in terms of musical and extra-musical subject matter. The chapter discuses the context of art history that Bruegel's painting possibly foretold the events that took place in New York, though Naqoyqatsi avoids any explicit references to the event. It examines the crucial element that is expressed in Reggio and Philip Glass's Qatsi trilogy, particularly Naqoyqatsi. Glass's music for Play, scored for soprano saxophones performing in conjunction with pre-recorded material, demonstrates the use of similar cut-up' techniques to those developed by William Burroughs. The re-application of Prophecies and Pruit Igoe has demonstrated how the apocalyptic aspect associated with the original context of the music, can also gather similar meanings in Watchmen. By focusing on Naqoyqatsi, Book of Longing and cues from Koyaanisqatsi as heard in Watchmen, Glass's music can demonstrably be applied to the context of social science, humanism and particularly existentialism.
