A Funny Thing Happened

Reinholt56

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The full title of this piece of experimental music is 'A Funny Thing Happened When I Got To The Opera' but it wouldn't fit in.

This is a tongue-in-cheek experiment with meaning out of nonsense or practise phrases.

I'm sure there's a whole opera trapped in here somewhere.

Sorry if this offends your ear but it is a bit of fun.

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Uploaded: Sep 11, 2007 - 03:56:44 PM
Last Updated: Sep 11, 2007 - 03:56:44 PM Last Played: Jun 02, 2009 - 01:54:48 AM

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Practise (1), opera (18), classical gas (1), outrage (1), scales (1), plucked strings (1)

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michael2	michael2 said 805 days ago (September 11th, 2007)
	it ain't over until the fat lady sings. i could see this in the soundtrack for some old Mel Brooks movie, or a silent movie. really cool. where did you get the vocals from (or have you been practicing?) Check out my latest song called Behind Enemy Lines (w/Bud and Particle Dots)

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Reinholt56 said 804 days ago (September 12th, 2007)

Hi Michael.....
The sounds all came from a very old sample CD that I bought as part of a set in 2000. I've used some of the loops from other CD's in this set in past mixes but had forgotten about the disks because I have so many sample disks now, but found them whilst 'flat-tidying'.

The sample set is called 'Data Becker Monster Pack'. They made two versions, one slightly updated. The set was cheap and in the early days I knew nothing about the importance of quality in the loops.

The vocal part was laid down first, as it sounded zany as I added phrases together. Then there were two tracks of Classical backing. One specifically 'not-strings' and another one that was strings. My main task was the key changes or fitting the backing with the gurgling voice.

Thanks for visiting.

Paul.

Check out my latest song called Celestial Mechanics #2

	said 803 days ago (September 13th, 2007)
	Fun Well done :-)

Reinholt56	Reinholt56 said 803 days ago (September 13th, 2007)
	Merci Henri.... Merci Henri for listening and leaving me those kind words. Take care. Paul. Check out my latest song called Celestial Mechanics #2

peacepiano	peacepiano said 800 days ago (September 16th, 2007)
	Wild Some very funny parts. Some potentially offensive, but sometimes you have to take some risks to have a good time with samples like these. Thanks Bill Check out my latest song called I Should Have Known

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Reinholt56 said 799 days ago (September 17th, 2007)

Hey Bill
I'm wondering what you found that was potentially offensive in this piece. To me it has no words and is not aimed at anyone on here and is something I put together as a bit of fun.

If anyone took offense to this piece it would surely be offense of their own making. I will remove this piece if you come up with a good enough reason. I would not want to be misinterpreted, especially when no offense was intended.

Drop me a note if you don't want to put the response in here, but I've put my comment in here because any offense would be unintentional and I need anyone who cares to see this.

Paul.

Check out my latest song called Celestial Mechanics #2

peacepiano

peacepiano said 799 days ago (September 17th, 2007)

Paul
I didn't mean potentially offensive in that way. I meant in the way opera style singing sounds. To me operatic singing is always at or over the limit for what sounds good from vocal chords. So, in hindsight I probably shouldn't have commented because I do not particularly care for opera and didn't mean to disparage your arrangement, which sounds like it accomplishes what you meant.
Sorry for the mixup.

Bill

Check out my latest song called I Should Have Known

Reinholt56	Reinholt56 said 798 days ago (September 18th, 2007)
	OK Bill...... I can live with speculative offense. It's direct offense that I couldn't live with. Thanks for your feedback. Take care. Paul. Check out my latest song called Celestial Mechanics #2

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I enjoy creating music using computers and 'synthesized' as opposed to 'real' instruments. I have no problem using samples/loops in my music. Everyone does this every time they work with a track. I don't fit in any box and thoroughly enjoy working ou... [see more]

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Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. There is an overlap with avant-garde music. John Cage was a pioneer in experimental music and defined and gave credibility to the form. As with other edge

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