Setting up the party, originally uploaded by Kyra Savolainen.

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Sky line, originally uploaded by Kyra Savolainen.

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Apples, again, originally uploaded by Kyra Savolainen.

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Being a fan of Nokia innovation, I was eager to check out the promo video for the company’s first netbook (or, ‘Booklet 3G’, formally). As is often the case, I was struck foremost by the soudtrack, and a quick click led to distracted curiosity.

Four seconds in, my eyes defer top-tier focus duties to my ears and what I think I’m hearing is a softened, synth’d mix of the Violent Femme’s “Blister in the Sun.” Then the lovechild of Morr Music and the Cocteau Twins stops by the studio for a visit to add some gleam, tweak the glitch, and wipe clean some of the melancholy spilled over the master by a recently dumped Death Cab for Cutie.

The evolution of music and the patterns of its dissemination/popularization is such a neat thing. Commercial useage, as in Nokia’s score (below), seems to represent the final  ‘welcoming into the family’ of formerly-groundbreaking musical innovation, particularly when the score has been commissioned.

Would you put this (or its extended descendent) on your ‘player? I think I’m wishing I wanted to, but suspectng that I won’t. I think I already have most of the originals at home.

Edit (August 25, 2009)

Still curious about the track’s composer, looked into it a little more and found the lead in the comments at Nokia Conversations. Here’s Douglas Black Heaton’s website.