Amazed, Enthused and Amused by Music

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

February 2019 EDITORIAL
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Computer-generated imagery, better remembered as CGI, has radically changed the movie industry. Anything can now be made to look extremely real on screen, and we are left marvelling at the cleverness involved as well as the computer programming and power that lie behind this mastery of illusions.But at the same time, have you noticed how, despite all the effort done to put us into a visual trance that takes us into another reality, moviemakers still cannot do without background music?Despite...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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