Remix the Ring
wow. well I'm feeling a whole helluva load off...
spent the last 10 days making two remixes of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries for a contest for CBC's Freestyle called "Remix the Ring"...first one (named "Brynhildr") took me about four days and still is not perfect, but I got to the point where I couldn't hear my way to fixing it. It's good, but probably won't win anything.
the second ("Sigrún"), ironically, took me 5 hours a couple days ago - got home, had dinner, then got to work and recorded from 6:30 to 11:30 - and is WAY better: more cohesive, more melodic, almost more clever (though version 1 is in 7/8, which was really hard to do)... has me playing muted trumpet against the melodic line of the Valkyries, which is reharmed - almost treating the recording like a backing orchestra for a Miles & Gil Evans session...
SO. at the end of the month, CBC judges will award 10 finalists $250, and then the public gets to vote on the best one, who is then awarded another $750.
We shall see. Going to have to work hard not to fret about it. and who knows... maybe I'll come up something brilliant in PEI too...
BT
spent the last 10 days making two remixes of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries for a contest for CBC's Freestyle called "Remix the Ring"...first one (named "Brynhildr") took me about four days and still is not perfect, but I got to the point where I couldn't hear my way to fixing it. It's good, but probably won't win anything.
the second ("Sigrún"), ironically, took me 5 hours a couple days ago - got home, had dinner, then got to work and recorded from 6:30 to 11:30 - and is WAY better: more cohesive, more melodic, almost more clever (though version 1 is in 7/8, which was really hard to do)... has me playing muted trumpet against the melodic line of the Valkyries, which is reharmed - almost treating the recording like a backing orchestra for a Miles & Gil Evans session...
SO. at the end of the month, CBC judges will award 10 finalists $250, and then the public gets to vote on the best one, who is then awarded another $750.
We shall see. Going to have to work hard not to fret about it. and who knows... maybe I'll come up something brilliant in PEI too...
BT
posted by BT at 11:37 AM
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