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1982) Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits (likely influenced by Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973). They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song. The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one (although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order). The instrumental on that album, "Sirius," eventually became the best-known (or at least most frequently heard) Parsons instrumental because of its use as entrance music by various American sports teams, most notably by the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA dynasty, as well as during broadcasts of Pittsburgh Steelers games on their flagship station WDVE (which is coincidentally a classic rock station) just before the start of the game itself or the second half. It was also used as the entrance theme for Ricky Steamboat in pro wrestling of the mid 1980's.The group was notable for using several vocal performers instead of having a single lead vocalist. Lead vocal duties were shared by guest vocalists chosen by their vocal style to complement each song. Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits (including "Time" and "Eye In The Sky") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred "real" singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not. In addition to Woolfson, Chris Rainbow, Lenny Zakatek, John Miles, David Paton and The Zombies's Colin Blunstone made regular appearances. Other singers, such as Arthur Brown, Procol Harum's Gary Brooker, Dave Terry aka Elmer Gantry, Vitamin Z's Geoff Barradale and Marmalade's Dean Ford, have recorded only once or twice with the Project. Parsons himself only sang lead on one song ("The Raven") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backup on a few others, including "To One in Paradise". Both of those songs appeared on the group's first record, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, an album containing music based on the stories and poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.Although the vocalists varied, a small number of musicians worked with the Alan Parsons Project regularly. These core musicians contribute to the recognizable style of a Project song in spite of the varied singer lineup. Together with Parsons and Woolfson, the Project originally consisted of the group Pilot, with Ian Bairnson (guitar), David Paton (bass) and Stuart Tosh (drums). Pilot's keyboardist Billy Lyall also contributed. From "Pyramid" on, Tosh was replaced by Stuart Elliott of Cockney Rebel. Bairnson played on all albums and Paton stayed almost until the end. Andrew Powell appeared as arranger of orchestra (and often choirs) on all albums except "Vulture Culture", when he was busy composing the film score of Richard Donner's film Ladyhawke. This score was partly in the Project style, recorded by most of the Project regulars, produced and engineered by Alan Parsons. Powell also composed some material for the first two Project albums. Since "Vulture Culture", Richard Cottle entered as a regular member on synthesizers and saxophone.Also notably, the Project never played live during its career. This was due to the fact that Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also for technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in studio. In the 1990s things changed with the technology of digital samplers. The only live performance where the band was introduced as "The Alan Parsons Project" was at Night of the proms 1990 (at the time of the group breakup), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson which was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at mixer except on last song where he played acoustic guitar. Since 1994 Alan Parsons performed live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various lineups called "Alan Parsons Live Project" distinctly from "The Alan Parsons Project" due to the breakup with Eric Woolfson.Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson. Eric Woolfson was a lawyer by profession, but was a composer and pianist as well. Alan Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Both worked together to craft noteworthy songs with impeccable fidelity, and almost all songs on Project albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons." [ More Detail ]
...40 hours. 26 files. dkljsdfalkj.If you haven't heard the OST, listen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eKK3CZPKacThis is the music that plays during Banjo &Kazooie's epic fight with the witch, Gruntilda. This track is most likely my favorite theme from any game. Its just that epic. OST Composer is Grant Kirkhope.About this:The song is filled with just about everything that isn't easily replicated in Mario Paint. On its own it lasts about 3:00 and never loops a single part. My flat tempo for the entire piece is 2352(16ths &triplets, so 12x normal). Originally on clips 14 &15 I was going to use the 50% slowdown effect in Windows Movie Maker, but decided against for numerous reasons: 1)No other background instruments would sound right. 2)The sound quality on the dropped octave is horrible. 3)It sounded boring when I did test it. I played around with that part alone (14&15) for almost TEN hours, until I came to what it is currently. This is BY FAR my most involved work, consuming around 40 hours spread across 3 weeks, using 26 clips/files, draining my will to live, etc.Done BY EAR in 40 hours, across 3 weeks.The song that plays during the credits is called "Mumbo's Big BBQ!".EDIT: Day one honors!#51 - Most Discussed (Today) - Travel &Events#8 - Top Favorites (Today) - Travel &Events#29 - Most Viewed (Today) - Travel &Events - Canada#39 - Most Viewed (Today) - Travel &Events#48 - Most Viewed (Today) - Travel &Events - Mexico#12 - Top Rated (Today) - Travel &EventsWeek 1 Honors!#95 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Travel &Events#23 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Travel &Events#53 - Top Rated (This Week) - Travel &EventsMonth 1 Honors...#30 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Travel &Events#83 - Top Rated (This Month) - Travel &EventsThe real honor:http://rare-elite.com/banjo-kazooie/b-k-gruntilda-battle-composed-in-mario-paintFrom Grant Kirkhope: "That is truly amazing!" :)Thanks for your support!Travel &Events ftw =P [ More Detail ]
Staten Island native Ingrid Michaelson was born into a house of all things artistic. Following in the eclectic footsteps of her mother, a sculptor, and her father, a classical composer, Ingrid began piano lessons at only four years old. Her songwriting career began after college while touring the country in a national theater troupe and spending all her free time composing the songs that would eventually make it onto her current record, Girls and Boys.An entrepreneur as well as a talented musician, Ingrid released Girls and Boys on her own label. Three months after the CD release, Ingrid won a national songwriting award. In November 2006, an unexpected phone call catapulted her career forward. The music supervisor from Grey's Anatomy wanted to use the song "Breakable" in an upcoming episode. Following the exposure on Grey's Anatomy, Ingrid's career as an independent artist immediately hit the fast track and she began to achieve milestones previously unheard of for an artist not signed to a major label. NICOLE ATKINSThe shores of New Jersey are littered with small towns whose better days are far in the past. They're towns that have been written about, and sung over; towns that have been mythologized and idealized; and they are the towns that 28-year-old musician Nicole Atkins--a native of Neptune City, located a stones throw from fabled Asbury Park was born and raised. They can be places steeped in their own history, buried under the sense of their own pasts. Places of hey-days and what-once-was. And it's that sense of something lost and of what perhaps should have been, and what might be, that permeates Atkins's debut, Neptune City.The characters in her tunes seem to live in an idealized past. "This record is the history of my town; it's the history of my family and friend in this town," she explains. "From the time I was a kid I started collecting these sad little tragically beautiful personal stories from the people in my life, and my own as well. That sense of history really appeals to me as an artist."For More Information goto:http://www.fastfocus.tv [ More Detail ]
Mistakes:Hans Zimmer did compose the sequels of Pirates of the Caribbean, but Klaus Badelt scored the original. I edited that too quick. And Burkhard von Dallwitz scored the Truman Show, not Randy Edelman, also an editing mistake.Here is my own personal list of the greatest film scores of all-time. solely based on the music in the films...some ofthe movies I don't even like aside from the music.Here is the a list of the composers that showed up more than once on the entire top 100 list: John Williams (15), Danny Elfman (12), Alan Silvestri (5), James Horner (4), James Newton Howard (4), Bernard Hermann (4), Carter Burwell (3), Jerry Goldsmith (3), Tan Dun (3), Philip Glass (2), John Carpenter (2), Randy Newman (2), Howard Shore (2), Elliot Goldenthal (2), Thomas Newman (2), Wendy Carlos (2), Hans Zimmer (2) [ More Detail ]
EDIT May 7#47 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Travel &Events#79 - Top Rated (This Month) - Travel &EventsMy longest-lasting honors :) (probably because they are in a less-popular category).Today is my 1-year YouTube anniversary! Tell the truth, I realized it only like... an hour and a half ago at 9 o'clock at night, and I didn't have anything planned for the event so I was kind of bummed out. So I hurried up to finish the project I was working on: none other than the Final Destination theme from Super Smash Bros Melee and Brawl.This song is appropriate for my 1-year anniversary because I received this song as a request early on in my MPC carrer. Observing the song led me to the conclusion that it was impossible to do, and I set it aside. Well recently I came back to it with the thought that I would prove my past self wrong and complete it. Low and behold, it's (barely) finished in time for my 1-year anniversary, and I'm fairly satisfied with the results.The song, like my Zelda Theme, is riddled with triplets and sixteenth notes. Fortunately, they rarely appear at the same time, so I was able to constantly switch between 4/4 and 3/4 time to keep the tempo reasonable. Like my other 2 SSB pieces (Fountain of Dreams and Pokemon Staduim), it may seem empty at times because of the lack of instruments and held-out notes, but it's better than both of them in my opinion. The 5-note limit led me to not go crazy on the percussion (which isn't that epic in the song anyway, with just some cymbal crashes for the most part).I will also take this opportunity to thank my current 515 subscribers. Without all of the support I get I probably wouldn't bother with this in the first place.Celebrating my 1-year anniversary, I would also like to thank my first subscriber, emberstar2 (also my sister), and my first subscriber who I don't know in real life, fenix85044, who also gave me inspiration to start Mario Paint Composing in the first place. Enjoy!Software used:Music: Mario Paint Composer - http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/Notation: MidiNotate Player - http://www.notation.com/MidiNotatePlayer.htmVideo: Camstudio 2.0 - http://camstudio.org/Editing: Windows Movie MakerAll free, legal, and unlimited. [ More Detail ]
"Vertigo" is one of the most analyzed films in the history of cinema, and is one of cinemas greatest collaborations; that of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock. An undisputed work of movie art, it is considererd possibly Herrmann's finest work! Its melodic content is unusually rich and tightly interwoven as well as the scores harmonies and orchestral colorations. The OPENING TITLES use a 'triadic' figure, ascending and descending punctuated by phrases and chords all of which are extremely musical, capturing the full emotions of the title. THE NIGHTMARE sequence uses a 'Tempo di habanera, giving it a terrifying reading as well as dissonant chords; displayed whenever Herrmann depicts trauma or death. In the 'SCENE D' AMOUR, he comes through with a completely self contained presentation of the 'love theme'. This beautiful music brings forth anticipation, tension and anxiousness as it blossoms to the final resolution of the scene. It is a testament to his genius that he could sustain us with such music for over 3 minutes ; virtually without any dialogue!! When the film first opened it was met with mixed and contraversial reviews. However, over the years, critics have now concluded that it is, arguably, one of the 10 best films ever made! [ More Detail ]