Veracohr Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I had a strange idea pop into my head once upon a time. The idea has stubbornly stuck around over the past couple years or so, and when crazy ideas of mine stubbornly stick around, I start to pay attention to them. It's been a while since I've thought about it, but tonight I was at a CD release party for my boss' daughter, and they played a jazz interpretation of some Beyonce song. Not that I would ever recognize a song as being by Beyonce, but they stated that it was, and it reminded me of my crazy idea. The idea is this: do a symphonic arrangement of Astral Projection's "Mahadeva". At some point in my listening to it, I started to hear how it could be adapted to a full symphony. I'm sure it would be weird, but what do you think? It could be interesting, right? I rarely listen to symphonic music, and I have never written or arranged anything for a symphony, but it seems like it would be an interesting challenge. And if I were able to do it well enough, I could find a local conductor and symphony. What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Unstable Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Get at 'er. I am skeptical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 I am skeptical. Honestly, so am I. But as I said, when a crazy idea sticks in my head for a long period of time, I start to pay attention to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkarbiter Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Sounds interesting :drama: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Cool idea. Remove the beat+bassline and basicly you have those chords and some simple repetitive melodic patterns to work with. The song is in the same key all the time. I bet it would be a real challenge to make something both interesting and recognizable of it. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qa2pir Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Cool idea. Remove the beat+bassline and basicly you have those chords and some simple repetitive melodic patterns to work with. The song is in the same key all the time. I bet it would be a real challenge to make something both interesting and recognizable of it. Good luck! There's tons of implied chords to work on in that song, even though the bass plays the root note all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reger Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Any electronica track done 100% live or almost-100%-live with only live instruments (orchestra, jazz band or stomp, doesnt matter) and one-two analog synths will kick ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simorq Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Reminds me of when the guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen teamed up with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Many tracks get remixed into a different genres successfully so I think that this could quite easily work. Just take the melody, play it on different instruments, get the rhythm & try to work that in & it could work pretty well. If anyone does this, they'll have to share it here :posford: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 It's not that simple, because there's not much substance to work with. It would require serious talent and creativity to make something of this track for a symphonic orchestra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radi6404 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I am sure it would sound awesome, the original Mahadeva lacks additional channels, the sound of Mahadeva could be way richer with a few mroe sounds here and there so the symphony version would probably sound awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trolsk Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Warp Records and the London Sinfonietta did something similar to some Aphex Twin and Squarepusher tracks: http://www.warprecords.com/londonsinfonietta/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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