[lorrieholdridge]

[malishka1025]

CAT FIGHT!!!!!!!!!

oh sweet jesus, I had to watch it 3 times.. I was laughing so hard I missed some subtitles.

AWESOME

[lorrieholdridge]

[Zvssxstw]

It's driving me crazy that they cannot spell Aladdin.

[lorrieholdridge]

It's driving me crazy that they cannot spell Aladdin.

I'm so so sorry...
VoilÃ*, I fixed it!

[clorkergo]

im expecting a barrage of fruit and eggs. but i would be curious to hear a mac aladdin style version of NoH. these clips are actually not that bad :P

[JRixlcvF]

im expecting a barrage of fruit and eggs. but i would be curious to hear a mac aladdin style version of NoH. these clips are actually not that bad :P

Not fruit and eggs, but maybe a cochlear implant.

[clorkergo]

lol i mean obviously these arent amazing polished pieces. but id be curious to see what a contemporary version with moden instruments would sound like

[socialkiiii]

^ But piano isn't a modern instrument; voice isn't a modern instrument.

Do you mean new instruments? Neither piano nor voice are new instruments. "modern instruments"? Would you rather an electric piano, auto-tune vocoder vocals and no acoustic instruments at all, as honestly, very few acoustic instruments are all that new.

edit: "contemporary version" - as if classical music isn't contemporary. Or as if all contemporary music uses electric instruments and shitty guitar effects.

[HitAttetlyTek]

Ouch. I see what you're saying, Starling. NOH done as a standard pop/rock album. I think Ebby's in a bit of a bad mood? LOL.

[Dwnijzhd]

I want NOH redone live, with Tori playing a mellotron and a keytar, and Mark playing the guitar with his teeth.

[Clesylafabada]

edit: "contemporary version" - as if classical music isn't contemporary. Or as if all contemporary music uses electric instruments and shitty guitar effects.

While I don't think starling is one of them, it does amaze me that there are actually people who think that classical music is old timey stuff which ceased to exist when jazz came around. That the only modern classical music today is film scores.

Really? REALLY? Bartok, Prokofiev, Ligeti, Pärt, Vasks, Cage, Messiaen, Lachenmann, Stockhausen, Penderecki, Cowell, Reich......?

[socialkiiii]

^ perhaps I came off quite grumpy, but it's an on-going pet hate of mine. I don't get what people mean when they say contemporary, as if classical music doesn't exist now, or that orchestras only play obsolete music from hundreds of years ago that mean nothing anymore. It's all ridiculous and when you dig deeper you find that most of the pop / rock / electronic / whatever musicians are influenced by contemporary classical music.

Where would electronic music be without music concrete and tape / electric compositions from people like Delia Derbyshire and other "classical" composers. Stockhausen, Reich, Penderecki, Cage... all cited as influences by a lot of "contemporary popular" artists.

It's a stupid divide between "classical" and all other music, and one that makes less and less sense as you see so many composers bridging that divide - like Craig Armstrong, who has done orchestral works, film scores as well as working with people like Massive Attack. Or Bjork, who is moving more in the other direction coming from her punk roots, through dance and electronic music, to some really avante garde contemporary classical. Or Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead, who now writes film scores too.

It's a foolish statement to say that orchestral instruments aren't contemporary instruments when they're used in such a huge variety of styles and works.

A contemporary instrument is anything that is still being played and having new music written for it, not just something you have to plug in to play bad powerchords on.

[Clesylafabada]

Exactly.

I've heard contemporary classical music with harpsichord or electric guitar. The latter was being frowned upon in the classical world for the longest time but is now standard. And we all know a certain someone who heavily used harpsichord in her pop songs.
People who only know film scores would be shocked by some of the classical music from the mid-20th century, when deconstruction was in full swing (although some of these composers had horrible attitudes towards anyone who wanted to write a nice melody. or Messiaen who was only happy when the audience hated his latest work...).

And Björk is actually one of those people I could see completely transitioning into the classical world later in her career, like Frank Zappa did for example.

[socialkiiii]

In my opinion, it's all music and there are differences in performing styles. You could take a bunch of Antony Hegarty's songs, and have a classical singer perform them and they'd be considered classical. Or you could take some Schubert Lieder and have them sung as if they were French Chanson.

Even look at Ane Brun singing "When I Am Laid In Earth" by Purcell! It's an aria from the late 1600's, and she makes it feel like a modern folk ballad:



And surely youtube stars like the cello guys show how versatile those orchestral instruments really can be.

[lorrieholdridge]

a new clip for you guys

[Zvmwissq]

a new clip for you guys

LOL FOREVER at the altered faces of Tori and Mr. Lincoln.

[Unamannuato]

Haven't popped in for awhile so this has probably been posted somewhere here at some point, anyway made me crack up and it is exactly as I imagine Fearlessness would sound on TBK/ADP/AATS:

[sueplydup]

Hilarious concept, but not totally sure about the execution. That weird sound doesn't sound quite like Mac's wanking. And I imagine there'd be at least 50% more wanking over the "teams of horses" part. Still, it's funny! The picture is the best part

[lorrieholdridge]

bringin' the Hammond and the Wurly back! here's Cactus Practice TBK style!