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Rotating Orchestra
With a wave of the hand, the guest conductor gets all the instruments to swap parts. | |
Violins, violas, cellos, double basses, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, French horns, trombones, tubas all would learn the part of each other instrument. The notes could be displayed on cellphones they put on their music stands and the notation would rotate when a guess conductor waved
the baton.
So at the jamming part of The Blue Danube, at various points the conductor would wave the baton and the Clarinets would play the violin part, the cellos would play the French horns etc.
I'd maybe have a special guest conductor like a kid with issues of some kind, maybe medical or developmental.
Curious how that would sound.
Not this lineup but the one from way back when.
https://kronosquartet.org/
[doctorremulac3, Mar 16 2025]
For [norm]
https://en.wikipedi.../Roundhouse_(venue)
The orchestra on a rotating platform has been done at this venue, though the rotation was very slow, I think like one whole rotation over the course of the evening or something like that, [pocmloc, Mar 19 2025]
Another one used to be in my neck of the woods.
https://en.wikipedi...Circle_Star_Theater
Also for norm. [doctorremulac3, Mar 19 2025]
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Each instrument has a certain range, and certain technical limitations. One of the complaints you find about inexperienced arrangers is that they write parts for instruments without being aware of these limitations, and so they write impossible notes. This is very frustrating for the players. |
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Put very simply - for obvious reasons, the violin can't play the tuba part, and the kettledrums can't play the violin part, and so on. |
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You would need to re-write each instrument's part and they you are creating a whole new arrangement of the piece which is not what the idea proposes. |
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You may as well propose a public timetable vehicle swap, so that the trains run to the international airline routes and schedules, the jumbo jets run to the cargo ship routes and schedules, and the cargo ships run to the subway routes and schedules. Doesn't work. |
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They just play the note in a different octave. |
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An F#’s an F#, doesn’t better what’s playing it. |
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By the way, haven't done any orchestra work but I did compose a piece for a string quartet that I hired to come to my recording studio to play. They're pretty well known, the Kronos Quartet. (link) The lineup I worked with was very cool and a lot of fun. Three of them anyway, one guy seemed to just be there for the paycheck. |
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After the piece was recorded I asked if they wanted to hang around for a bit and record horror movie/sci-fi sounds, weird ascending/descending discordance by playing various "un-chords" for lack a better name and they were totally down with it. |
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Used to make my living with music as a kid and my view was that since life is bound by rules and regulations, as it should be, music should have no rules other than being interesting or moving, funny or otherwise engaging. If you can scare people with violins and cellos making dissonant scratches and scraping noises, okay, beautiful. If you can do it by recording a two story tall pile driver banging a post into the ground and mixing it with a snare drum sample, (which I've done) go for it. |
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My favorite recording outing was getting a lion's growl, tuning down and using it as the sound of a car being driven by the devil when it started up. Me and a couple of buddies wore lab coats and carried recording gear and had a clipboard. Walked up to the zoo entrance and said "We're here to record the lions." They assumed we were legit because we had a) lab coats (for some reason) b) expensive recording gear and a big boom mic and c) a clipboard. They escorted us into the lion feeding chamber which was perfect because it was concrete with amazing natural acoustics and I got to experience a hungry lion growling at me from only a few feet away. I was amazed to see the primitive part of my brain knew exactly what was going on and having that part of your brain face a hungry lion is an experience that can't be described in words. I was suddenly a caveman wanting desperately to have a sharp stick. |
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Which octave should the gong play? |
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And by the way, if you've never hit a big one of those with a mallet it should be on your bucket list. There's no way it's notifying you of something minor. A gong would be inappropriate to indicate that the toast is ready for instance. |
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Disappointed that this is not an orchestra on a rotating platform for that cool Leslie effect. |
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