Metropolis at LACMA Friday Oct 16

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:59 pm

I'll be improvising 2.5 hour score...

http://www.lacma.org/event/metropolis

Hit me up for comps. I may have a few left. It's a 600+ seat theater.

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:06 pm

Ahhh, too far for me. I love that movie — even with the Giorgio Moroder score as released in the 1980s.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:35 pm

What a cool movie for this gig, Magilla, and congratulations, mate.

I'm guessing you'll be able to venture further afield with your improvising than is usually the case. Some future-retro piano-techno, perhaps? You know what I mean.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:05 pm

Just watched the move for the first time in many years (at 3x speed) and with an additional 25 minutes of footage added. Man, what a challenge. I've played it before but have a lot more experience accompanying since then. Now I have to add lots more details and push the story pretty hard, without getting monotonous or boring, and maintain a concert piano style throughout.

Piece of cake... LOL Two run-throughs on piano: five hours of practice should be a good start, I suppose.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:01 am

Cripes!

You da gorilla, Magilla.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 12:34 pm

Oh rats, I had too busy a week at work to login until today, and now it has passed!

I couldn't have gone, but my friends down there might have been available and CERTAINLY would have been interested (they're the ones that came with me to see you accompany Hitchcock a couple of years ago).

I'll be in L.A. visiting them over Thanksgiving, so be sure to give advance notice if anything is on your concert schedule around that time!

Hope it went well. I've never seen the film; only excerpts. It must be an inspiring backdrop for improvising, half-composing, etc.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:34 pm

Or full composing, which last night was. There was one cornie there so he can report. I thought it went very well. I have a midnight gig the Sat. after T-day. Emo Phillips is co-hosting.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:48 pm

Cool; I'll keep that one on the calendar to look at the details later.

One of these days, I hope to go through the exercise of writing a soundtrack to a silent film. It's well-known as the main initiation rites -- at least, at many (or most) music conservatories -- for orchestral composition and arranging.

sndmarks · Post by **sndmarks** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 9:08 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Or full composing, which last night was. There was one cornie there so he can report. I thought it went very well. I have a midnight gig the Sat. after T-day. Emo Phillips is co-hosting.

You were terrific, MLC! I don't know how you do it, just going and going off the top of your head for 2 1/2 hours. It was very cool and the "four notes" you mentioned were laced throughout. Bravo, dude!

And the film had been significantly restored since the last time I saw it - looked gorgeous!

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MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:55 pm

Thanks, and thanks for coming out for the event. We need to hang out more.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 8:33 pm

sndmarks wrote:I don't know how you do it, just going and going off the top of your head for 2 1/2 hours.

He's had a lot of practice here at MOTUNation.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 8:40 pm

You're just jealous, Nickster. LOL

BKK-OZ · Post by **BKK-OZ** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 8:40 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:

I used to date her. My kinda girl.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 8:58 pm

LOL She looks perfect, BK... especially after a couple o' decades sans the horizontal macarena.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:You're just jealous, Nickster. LOL

Wrong.

I'm in awe, bro'.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:14 pm

BKK-OZ wrote:
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
I used to date her. My kinda girl.

I hear she married the Tin Woodsman after he found his heart in Oz.

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