Events / Long-Distance Collaborative DIY Orchestra
When:July 15th, 2009 @ 12:00am
Where:
Earth
Activity:
Yellowbear's DIY Orchestra
Enrollment
30/unlimited
Organizer:
Loki
Description:
We're going to try to put together a long distance collaborative completion of this task.
On July 15, we muster with our instruments and start working on the music.
All are welcome to participate. You'll need a home-made instrument, and the ability to record audio. We'll work out the details when the time comes.
Responses
30 Attending
- anna one
- rongo rongo
- YellowBear
- Lincøln
- Spidere
- Bex.
- GYØ Ben
- Tøm
- Loki
- Terpsichore
- susy derkins
- Hey-Look-It's Caleb!
- Secret Agent
- teucer
- Myrna Minx
- Haberley Mead
- Sombrero Guy
- Edwin Farnham Butler III
- salad fingers
- done
- Waldo Cheerio
- Peter Garnett
- The Found Walrus
- artmouse
- Ntan McNunofurbizwax
- Myke Flaherty
- Mr Otondo
- Heathcliff
- Tyler Stewart
- Lily
Terms
(none yet)Comments
I would love to do this, but I don't know anything about music other than I enjoy it, and sound horrible singing along with the radio. And I will be traveling for much of this day. I'm not sure if I'll have a connection to the rest of you. But I would love to do this.
I can play the hell out of my cello! Audio recording I'm sure I can rig up, with two months notice.
Also I love hte idea of doing this long-distance.
Whoops. I missed the home-made part. Well in that case I have home-made maracas. And I can try some new stuff.
July 15 gives me plenty of time to make an instrument after the exams.
And I'll just hope my computer's audio recording is good enough...
Already got a homemade bass in the pipeline for less than £10... count me in :D
i can play spoons.... especially the rusty ones..
*shivers*
How can I not attend a task named in my honor?
Woah.
Now it's certain to be good. (Because the rest of us will all be shamed into working extra hard so as to not make the bear ashamed to collaborate with us. . .)
I don't know how to play. This is so much pressure ;p
July 15 is a potentially crazy day for me, but I will do my best to be there.
I don't expect that particular day to be important.
Just figured giving the thing a definite deadline would prevent it from becoming yet another eternally in-progress long distance collaboration.
The way I imagine it working is that on July 15 we all describe the instruments we've got and settle on a basic strategy and probably a first song to try. My best guess is that it will involve circulating a click track and building up parts one at a time. (Hopefully once a few parts are in place we can do some of the rest in parallel, so it doesn't take years.) Since we can't rely on people being able to record stuff with low latency, I imagine most of us will be listening to the existing material with headphones and recording just our parts in large chunks, and then one person will align and mix all the parts by hand afterward. (But, I'm certainly open to alternative strategies, if anyone has better ideas.)
I figure we'll start with a cover or two, and perhaps if things go well try an original piece. Not sure how that's going to work - maybe playing bits to each other in real time, at least in small groups, then assembling the final product in the same way.
Probably happen over the course of many days or weeks, whatever form it takes.
Not a bad suggestion, Bex. (And a fun program as well.)
I have some ideas, but I'll save them until I know what sort of instruments we have.
Inspiration here: Les Luthiers' instrumentos informales.
I wish I were near the sea so I could make another seaweed horn.
Clothes-rail pipe chimes will have to do. Maybe with balloons.
I call glasses filled with varying amounts of liquid! ;)
Looks like glasses filled with the same amount of liquid is still open. If, perhaps, boring.
Due to technical difficulties I'm back to not knowing what I'm playing.
But I've got a couple weeks to figure that out.
I had some problems with building my instrument: I failed.
So I won't be done on time. I still try to make it but if it doesn't work again I will have to play a carrot-flute what would be just a one tune instrument. But better than nothing I guess.
Clearly we will have to do a cover of One-Note Samba.
I think we will have to cause I failed again. I really put a lot of work into this but now I will have to make a simple flute again. Maybe I can build a 3-tune flute this time, I'll try. I just have to know about when the recording is gonna take place cause a carrot-flute isn't very durable. Loki? any further plans?
I'm not sure yet Babe, but I think you should keep working on your failed instrument. I think the recording won't happen on the day. I think we'll all get our assignments tomorrow, and then we get to record them by ourselves alone, with all the time we need, and then I think we're to mail the parts to Loki who will then assemble them. So the deadline isn't really a deadline so much as it is a start time.
Right Loki?
How about if we do an instrumental version of this?
How 'bout ABBA. Its easy, and it sounds like it was born to be turned into poorly played parade music. Plus everybody knows it.
I'm thinking "Thank You for the Music" (theme appropriate and everything!) or "Take a Chance on Me."
Either way, ABBA makes it clear that in order to be awesome we're going to need some sweet-ass outfits.
I've got home-made chromatic pan pipes (and hand carved wooden lap spoons (and no sense of rhythm) and a terrible sounding home-made drum)!