Thriller A Cappella

Posted by Miss Cellania in Music, Video Clips on October 25, 2008 at 8:56 am



(MySpace Video link)

François Macré recorded Thriller using 64 tracks of only his voice! A Babelfish translation from the French description:

Description: Here a resumption of the title “Thriller” which I completely recorded with the voice. I thus imitated each element of the original title (instrumental, vocal, rhythmic elements and sound effects) by using 64 superimposed audio-video tracks (as this clip attests it; -). This recovery is thus a piece of a’ cappella multitrack, comprising only the sound of my voice, without addition of any instrument, sampler, limps for deforming rate/rhythm or purposes (only effects used being of Réverb and light Chorus). Moreover, I used the technique of the loop for the parts which are repeated (like the rhythmic one). Finally, on the whole of the piece (which contains thousands of notes distributed on the whole of the tracks), I transposed 8 notes which were impossible for me to sing in the acute ones.

Perhaps that does not have the air, but this musical project proved to be relatively titanic! At all events, I hope that you will take as much pleasure to listen to this piece than I had of it to record it. Thank you, in advance, to encourage me by your comments. Good listening and in Bientôt.

-Thanks, Pablozoide!


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14 comments to "Thriller A Cappella"

  1. Edward
    October 25th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Damn the myspacetv.com logo!

  2. Ashley
    October 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am

    This is awesome! I don't really like his voice singing the Michael Jackson vocals (it's actually pretty bad), but the rest of it is amazing!

  3. Dandy
    October 25th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Absolutely fantastic piece of work!!! Bloody well done!!!

  4. su.wei
    October 25th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    wow! that was the coolest thing ive seen in a long time!

  5. CheeseDuck
    October 25th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Not bad. Not baddd....

  6. just a guy
    October 25th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    Superneat! I'd love to see this synced to the MJ video (instead of it's normal track). That'd be cool! :)

  7. ted
    October 25th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Cheeseduck, it's bad, it's bad, you know it.

    Impressive idea, but the Michael Jackson part was too quiet - just as well since dude can't sing. His Vincent Price sounded more like - Hannibal Lector, maybe?

  8. Phil
    October 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Didn't Petra Haden do this a while ago? No video, but still...

  9. Christophe
    October 25th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Nice use of colored clothes as well. Hell is in the details would have said Vincent Price ;)

  10. cool!
    October 26th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    This is incredibly creative and well done. I love the tight "synth" and "brass" harmonies. The one track that bugged me whenever it was there, though, was track #50, "muted guitar". It wasn't quite in tune and was of a different quality than the other tracks. Maybe you could try some alternative recordings of it? It would be quick since it is a one measure loop. Just a suggestion... :-)
    I would love to hear you do other songs. You remind me of the Swingle Singers. You can hear an excerpt of the James Bond theme at http://www.swinglesingers.com/audio/bond.html.

  11. MoonCake
    October 26th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    from a producer's standpoint, this is absolutely amazing. that had to take a lot of time. i like that you can tell it took at least a couple days just to record the underlying tracks because of the different shirt colors (christophe-- i don't think he did it on purpose.. but i'm willing to be wrong if he did). the fact that he isn't a terribly good singer almost doesn't register as a flaw of this production because it was done so well. great job, dude! and i would like to see you do some other songs as well.

  12. Matt
    October 26th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    More cowbell.. I need more cowbell!! I gotta have more cowbell!!

  13. Alex
    October 26th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    That was an excellent find, Miss C!

  14. kati
    October 27th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    that was mesmerizing. i didn't like his voice at first but it started to grow on me. amazing!


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