MusicallyInspired
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Posted: Mar. 27 2006, 18:13 |
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Ok, fellows, big update.
I've been talking with Edoardo about the organization of this project and we agree that we all need to take a more organized approach to this project. As per Ed's request, he's asked me to post and throw the idea out there to see if everyone in the project and whoever wants to be a part of the project agrees (which I hope will, as this will cause a lot less headaches and promote more teamwork, in my honest opinion! ).
So far we've seen proof of examples of us stumbling around and recording any little bit we can think of and pasting it into the mix somewhere. Ed has done a masterful job of putting it all together, but this is a group project not an Ed project that we're simply sending in audio samples for him to use (myself included). I for one would like to see more pieces made up from scratch from all of you guys that follow the theme of the quarter being worked on and seeing how everyone's ideas fit into the mix. This is what we should be going for here, not just guitar solos and other additions as it is starting to become competetive and that's not what a group project needs. What we need is teamwork. The real goal of this project should be everyone coming up with their own pieces and finding a way to stick them all together (which just happens to be a talent of Edoardo's! ). So everyone's talents can be used and everyone's creative side efficiently explored! That, in turn, will cause everyone to work closer together and really work as a team!
And with that here's a plan:
-The current group can be split into two groups (for now). We can have each group working on a quarter, for now the first two and then when those are done we can do the last two.
-Once more people join the project we can then make more groups to cover the other quarters so we won't have to and then more people's creativity can be added to the project as well.
-One person can oversee each group by basically being a supervisor. Someone who really cares about the project (I know we all do  ) and who can organize and keep everyone on the right track. Not imposing opinions on the group and forcing them to do what he wants, but to rather keep everyone in line with what the feel of the quarter should be. This way everyone can show their creativity by creating pieces and have others create pieces that go along with the other and others can record pieces that fit next to it or go right on top of it. IE- someone can write a piece lossely based on the "Main Theme" and another can put a new guitar theme over it making it different yet still related to the entire project and all the while being an organized and fluent piece.
Everyone can work together to decide how best the entire quarter should flow and work together with everyone's input and compositions. After the quarters are finished we can then send everything off to Ed (who is the leader and overseer of the whole project) to "normalize" and make everything sound like it fits together.
-We'll need to first come up with a main theme that the entire project will revolve around and then blast into a smashing finale at the very end (similar, yet not a copy, to how the theme of Amarok was played around with all throughout the piece and then reprised at the very end in an amazing climax).
-We'll then decide together who should help in which quarter etc and then we can make our creative juices flow freely with everyone else's to make this project a finished reality!
As someone mentioned before, I beleive (I think it was Edoardo), a good format this could be going in is the first quarter being the Introduction (with main theme introduced), the second a calmer and slower section, the third a faster (maybe fun-filled?) feeling section, and then the finale at the end which compiles all the themes presented in the first 3 quarters (as well as new ones) together in a more climactic way with the main theme ending it off with everyone filling in their talents in a smashing finish! (This would also give the interesting chance of people making different renditions of others' material from other quarters! )
-As for who leads each quarter, we can all decide on who's best to oversee that. Edoardo seems to be doing well with the first quarter so he might be a good choice to oversee that. I can volunteer to oversee the second slower calmer quarter if everyone agrees. I'm not going to take that upon myself, this is a group project everyone must agree the best way. We don't want any dictators and I certainly don't want to be one!
One thing I'd like to point out as well, there's been a lot of "Amarok-ing" of this piece going on. Of course everyone must agree as I've said, but I think it would be far more interesting to see what we can come up with originally instead of copying Mike. Of course the whole project is going to have an Amarok feel anyway no matter what we do since we have so many styles and creative minds working on a 60 min piece! But things like copying Mike's dist style and all that (while interesting in certain bits) can really drop the originality level of this project and might not grasp as much interest as it could if we worked on something original. That was Mike's wish in the first place; to "create something new out of nothing".
Of course, if your Oldfield dist sound is what you enjoy playing the most and are most free in then that's a different story. Everyone can work in their own comfortable style. I'm just saying that it might not be a good idea if the goal of the project 'emulates' or 'carbon-copy's' Mike. I for one, again, would like to see some originality from people here!
So what do you guys think?
EDIT: Just read Wayfarer's post. We can incorporate that into this idea as well. Again if everyone agrees.
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