barbershop666 just keeps blowing my mind. He’s getting better and better with his multi-tracked videos (he’s posted dozens of them on his YouTube channel, including my Water Night) but this version of Sleep is a real stunner.
By the way, barbershop666 is also the mad scientist who arranged “What If” from Paradise Lost entirely in Mario Paint. Epic.
Love it.
Ah, the days before samplers. Great mini-doc on some of the first pioneers in vocal super-dubbing.
James Perry sang with me last month as part of the chorus in the Carnegie performance of Paradise Lost, and once he got back home he cut together this killer video. That’s him singing all 8 choral parts (including the high soprano stuff) – each part recorded 4 times for a total of 32 tracks. Very, very cool, James.
The good stuff starts around 1:36.
It’s confirmed: poet Charles Anthony Silvestri will join me onstage for the Union Chapel performance in London August 2nd. We’ll talk about our featured collaborations together (Lux Aurumque, Nox Aurumque, Leonardo Dreams and Sleep). Oh yeah – this concert is going to rock the free world.
I’m setting Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night as one of the songs for the London Symphony Orch. and Chorus, and I’ve become completely enchanted with Dylan Thomas’s reading of his most famous work. You can actually hear the music in his voice as he recites:
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Seriously – an incredible exchange of ideas with a young fan.
Kaveh Cohen is a composer whose music you have most certainly heard and just didn’t realize it. He’s written music for some of the most successful film trailers in history (Avatar, Transformers, The Dark Knight). His most recent project – the... continued
I’m in Jerusalem for the next two weeks, spending the days working on the chorus and orchestra piece for the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. It is unbelievably hot here, and the air seems to shimmer with history and possibility.
Tia, a poet and blogger, has offered a deep and insightful essay on the deeper meaning of The Virtual Choir. Some very interesting thoughts, gorgeously written. She writes:
And yet, why does it haunt me so? The sense of longing, of... continued
Extraordinary rehearsals yesterday, first with the Paradise Lost soloists and then with the extraordinary chorus. Today’s rehearsal will be the first time we are all in the same room at the same time. (Plus Taikos, cello, DJ). Can. Not. Wait.
