Darth Vader Conducting an Orchestra Performing the Imperial March

Posted by John Farrier in Movies & SciFi, Music, Video Clips on October 30, 2009 at 3:03 pm


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Darth Vader did not approve of how the conductor of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra was leading a performance of The Imperial March, so he stepped in to do the job himself.

In the links, you’ll find a longer video of this event from CNN.

via Topless Robot | CNN Video | Orchestra Website

 
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RTOOT

Posted by Miss Cellania in Music on August 21, 2009 at 11:02 am

RTOOT stands for Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle. Membership is open to anyone in the Raleigh/Durham area who is not competent enough to play with other orchestras.

Who are we? The Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle exists to encourage those who have been prevented from playing music together with others, either through lack of talent or some other factor, to rehearse and perform in an ensemble of similarly afflicted players. From a humble beginning in May 2008, we have grown into a 75-piece symphony orchestra worthy of its role as one of the premiere cultural gems of the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill NC (USA) region known as the Research Triangle. Except that we’re pretty terrible. Terrible, in the French sense of Des Enfants Terribles … in that while we haven’t made fun of Bach or Mozart yet, we certainly have had a naughty excursion or two with Strauss and Tchaikovsky.

Some snippets of RTOOT’s performances are available on YouTube. Link -via Everlasting Blort

 
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Catcerto

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Music, Video Clips on July 20, 2009 at 9:58 pm


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Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piecaitis was inspired by Nora the Piano Playing Cat (featured previously at Neatorama) and composed a concerto for her to perform with an orchestra. Nora appears via videotape. The rest of the music was performed by the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra. This performance, condicted by Piecaitis, was recorded on June 5th in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Link -via Arbroath

 
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The Gadget Orchestra

Posted by Miss Cellania in Gadget, Music, Video Clips on April 20, 2009 at 8:54 am


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Can you get any geekier than Bohemian Rhapsody played by an orchestra of vintage gadgets? I think not. From the YouTube page:

Please note no effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?)
Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar
8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong
HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 seperate times for each voice. I tried to buy 4 HP scanners but for some reason sellers on E-Bay expect you to pay $80-$100, I got mine for $30.

I wonder if it takes requests? -via Arbroath

 
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Gadget Orchestra

Posted by Stacy in Gadget, Video Clips on January 9, 2009 at 10:42 am

This is pretty cool – it’s a musical composition using applications from several different handheld devices. I only ever thought to play games on my DS, so I’m quite impressed.

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