Post by ozboomer on May 5, 2023 7:55:36 GMT -5
Ever since I heard Isao Tomita's use of the Mellotron in some of his recordings, I've been fascinated with the sounds of choirs. If I develop an 'ear worm' for some vocal piece, I can easily listen to it 20 times without getting tired of the sound; for me, it's sort of like a large string section.
Just curious if folks here think this way at all, given we're mostly (I guess) about guitars and other gear in here.
Some examples of favourites of mine, to start this off:-
Ravel's 'Daphnis et Chloe, Suite 2' by Isao Tomita - The first minute or so, with the rising choir sound. Actually, a lot of the orchestration here reminds me of Star Trek, particularly around 03:10-03:25 in this video.
'Sound Creature' by Isao Tomita - I became so obsessed with the choir sounds, that I imported the Japanese pressing of the double album... and finding out all the liner notes and included booklets were in Japanese (wot'd you expect, y'dill!?), I chased down a lecturer in Japanese at Monash University, and enlisted him (= $$$) to translate some of the more critical parts so I could work out some of Tomita's tricks. Remember: there was no widespread internet in 1980-something...
'Sleep' by Eric Whitacre - I only discovered this fellow a few years ago... but (thankfully) there's some nice fundamental analysis of this particular piece in this video. I've seen a few interviews with him and if there's anything he's about it's 'dissonance'... and how it resolves.. to something that isn't the tonic. Marvellous... (Note: dots 'n lines + music theory herein)
'Fly to Paradise' by Eric Whitacre - A popular-style tune.. with ~6000 singers - a 'virtual choir', which seems to be a very popular thing to build these days.. and only possible with many folks having high-speed internet these days. The build-up of tension from ~03:15 to the release at 04:10 is pretty phenomenal... and the soprano voice = *chills*
'Unknown' by Jacob Collier - Just fell over this 'short' tonight..
Jacob Collier is one of these folks I'd never heard of until a lot of YouTube musicians I follow spoke of him. He's very much about music theory and other aspects of music.. but otherwise, I don't really know much about him.
This short video was apparently recorded at some event for choir directors and other pro musicians.. so that perhaps explains how the audience is able to sing so well; one comment says he first tuned his 'instrument' (set-out parts for groups of the audience to sing)... and then he 'played' the 'instrument'.
There's more, o'course.. but let's see how diverse this can get, eh?
Edit: An Extract of some of my woeful use of the effect... I'll get better one day... (BBCode sound link doesn't like my link... Eep!)
Just curious if folks here think this way at all, given we're mostly (I guess) about guitars and other gear in here.
Some examples of favourites of mine, to start this off:-
Ravel's 'Daphnis et Chloe, Suite 2' by Isao Tomita - The first minute or so, with the rising choir sound. Actually, a lot of the orchestration here reminds me of Star Trek, particularly around 03:10-03:25 in this video.
'Sound Creature' by Isao Tomita - I became so obsessed with the choir sounds, that I imported the Japanese pressing of the double album... and finding out all the liner notes and included booklets were in Japanese (wot'd you expect, y'dill!?), I chased down a lecturer in Japanese at Monash University, and enlisted him (= $$$) to translate some of the more critical parts so I could work out some of Tomita's tricks. Remember: there was no widespread internet in 1980-something...
'Sleep' by Eric Whitacre - I only discovered this fellow a few years ago... but (thankfully) there's some nice fundamental analysis of this particular piece in this video. I've seen a few interviews with him and if there's anything he's about it's 'dissonance'... and how it resolves.. to something that isn't the tonic. Marvellous... (Note: dots 'n lines + music theory herein)
'Fly to Paradise' by Eric Whitacre - A popular-style tune.. with ~6000 singers - a 'virtual choir', which seems to be a very popular thing to build these days.. and only possible with many folks having high-speed internet these days. The build-up of tension from ~03:15 to the release at 04:10 is pretty phenomenal... and the soprano voice = *chills*
'Unknown' by Jacob Collier - Just fell over this 'short' tonight..
Jacob Collier is one of these folks I'd never heard of until a lot of YouTube musicians I follow spoke of him. He's very much about music theory and other aspects of music.. but otherwise, I don't really know much about him.
This short video was apparently recorded at some event for choir directors and other pro musicians.. so that perhaps explains how the audience is able to sing so well; one comment says he first tuned his 'instrument' (set-out parts for groups of the audience to sing)... and then he 'played' the 'instrument'.
There's more, o'course.. but let's see how diverse this can get, eh?
Edit: An Extract of some of my woeful use of the effect... I'll get better one day... (BBCode sound link doesn't like my link... Eep!)