Song Fight Orchestra

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:43 pm

Get me in on this, Jim. And get back to work.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:13 pm

You're now on the list, Jon.

By the way, everyone, there are now 14 people who've volunteered to contribute to Song Fight Orchestra, so for some of you it may be months before your turn comes up. I'm picking the volunteers pretty randomly, so there's no tellin' who's gonna be when.

That said, there's always room for more, if you're someone who's not on the list and wants to be.

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:39 pm

i think it could be funny down the road somewhere if someone just sampled from the previous entries. to create some sort of recurring theme to it. created some sort of chorus maybe or latent motif, but still made it relevent to the week they were songfighting. that would be a good challenge.

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:04 pm

jack shite wrote:i think it could be funny down the road somewhere if someone just sampled from the previous entries. to create some sort of recurring theme to it. created some sort of chorus maybe or latent motif, but still made it relevent to the week they were songfighting. that would be a good challenge.

This might be cool as a year ender with a bunch of loops from all the submissions thus far or something or other with a cool chorus instilled from everyone who had done one. Good idea Jack!

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:47 pm

Or that could also serve as an overture to be added afterwards, but used at the beginning. Sounds promising. What does Jim think?

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:18 pm

Yeah, that sounds really cool. But I would prefer actual recorded reprises of existing material, rather than cut-and-pasted audio sampling. To keep the whole thing organic. Yeah, that's a great idea. If someone felt like they'd had enough of new material, they could reprice something, while still making it relevant to that week's title.

I like the overture and finale ideas too. Let's see how it starts sounding over time and maybe we'll get some good ideas of how it would work best. Great ideas.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:37 am

Just so's y'all know, I'm going to be collating all the pieces together into a single mp3 which I hope to update weekly. I will post a link to that collective when I get it going.

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:47 am

I'm gonna do the same...... cuz I'm kinda like that

Me$$iah · Post by **Me$$iah** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:59 am

Well I gots to say
I like wat Ive heard so far

This is such a good idea

If ya like stick the Me$$iah in the hat
For Im sure Id dig on doing a slice of this pie

peace

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:51 pm

I think the whole Idea is utter nonsense. Craziness devised by a liberal-minded fool who probably believes the linux-economic model is vastly superior to the scarcity model utilized by the greatest software company in the world. Give yer head a shake fools... this WILL NEVER WORK.

NEVER!!!!!!!!!

Thursdays are donut day. This local salesman brings donuts in every Thursday and then pesters me to buy kevlar gloves. I keep stalling.... thus securing another donut day. I am a genius.

I am scared of Songfight Orchestra.

I am also waiting for a v e r y s l o w download of a driver, as my pages keep loading s l o w l y .

I wish I could play the bag pipes.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:59 pm

Me$$iah, you're in the hat now. This makes the population of Song Fight Orchestra a whopping 15 people! Yowza mimsy!!

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:05 pm

I dunno if this goes against the ethos of your concept, Jim, but I think it would really help having that mp3 of 'the story so far' for everyone to hear as the weeks progress. This would help establish some thematic continuity and make the finished product sound less (potentially) like an musical version of Chinese Whispers ... I mean if you're doing it anyway .... just an idea?

j$

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:06 pm

Leaf wrote:I think the whole Idea is utter nonsense. Craziness devised by a liberal-minded fool who probably believes the linux-economic model is vastly superior to the scarcity model utilized by the greatest software company in the world. Give yer head a shake fools... this WILL NEVER WORK. NEVER!!!!!!!!! Thursdays are donut day. This local salesman brings donuts in every Thursday and then pesters me to buy kevlar gloves. I keep stalling.... thus securing another donut day. I am a genius. I am scared of Songfight Orchestra. I am also waiting for a v e r y s l o w download of a driver, as my pages keep loading s l o w l y . I wish I could play the bag pipes.

This is why other drummers think you might be into Lizardmen Conspiracy theories.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:08 pm

j$ wrote:I dunno if it goes against the ethos of your concept, Jim, but I think it would really help having that mp3 of 'the story so far' for everyone to hear as the weeks progress would help some theamtic continuity and make the finished product sound less (potentially) like an musical version of Chinese Whispers ... I mean if you're doing it anyway .... just an idea

j$

Wul, yeah, didn't I just say that was what I was going to be doing? Am I misunderstanding your post?

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:11 pm

Hmmm, I think I misunderstood the intention of your post ... kazoos kazoos kazoos!

jack · Post by **jack** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:43 pm

Leaf wrote: Thursdays are donut day. This local salesman brings donuts in every Thursday and then pesters me to buy kevlar gloves. I keep stalling.... thus securing another donut day. I am a genius.

so the guys on the dock suffer through another week of bloody hands while you have another donut day?

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:31 pm

If they don't get cut... I don't get to do first aid.

Bureaucracy at it's finest.

Actually, we have a huge supply right now, and when I asked for better pricing, he went out and bought a supply before I needed to order.. so he keeps trying to sell me this product I don't require right now!!

how good would kevlar's be if they kept wearing out and had to be replaced???

mmmm. Donuts.

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Jan 27, 2005 4:39 pm

Kevlar donuts. Hmmmm, bullet-proof ....

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:13 pm

Once I get my main page up for tonetripper.com (which I've registered and the like - woo hoo for me...... tons of reading though.... and building as I write this) I will post a link since I need the practice of how to upload to the server as such. I'm such, sometimes, a Net Virgin...... my cherry she *sniff* broke now though...... well almost...... the hymen she's a cracking......

.... best itialian accent I could do with such short notice....

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:03 pm

Here is our opus so far. I will add to it as entries come in weekly. Warning: In order to maintain consistency from piece to piece, when I add your contribution to the work, I may mess with the volume and the compression a bit. So, here it is:

<font color=blue size=5>Song Fight Orchestra - Symphony No. 1</font>

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:39 am

Cool Jim. I stll think that you would benefit greatly by just cutting off my compressed hit from your piece that I tagged in my piece and just tagging the music that comes in after the hit. I kinda hear a stutter in the beats like they've been flammed. Just a minor criticism. Sounds like you overlapped them instead of just using one or the other. I think it would be better to keep the drum hit from your number. Gentle criticism. Cool though.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:25 am

Yeah, I know what you mean. I heard that double hit even on yours when it was soloed. Not wanting to actually cut some of yours, I overlapped, but now that you've said that, I think I will go back and cut one of them out. I also had to mess with the volume levels at that point, since that overlap was way louder than the rest of it. Duhh.... why didn't that occur to me? Anyway, good suggestion.