The Fredösphere

Alex Ross continues to dig for new music ideas you can ... dig.  Here's one idea that's good enough to steal:  generate notes randomly, then constrain the randomness with a few smartly-chosen rules, and listen for the music to pop out.

Meanwhile, YouTube brings the vast world of choral music to your door -- just search for "choir" and let the goodness stream in.  Or you can go straight to the Red Army Chorus backing an annoyingly driven tenor soloist (forgive the redundancy) while the crowd roars and the dancers kick their heels and the smoke swirls around the giant mutant mullets.  Surreal.  Or, check this out:  as he enters, school girls swoon and the cameras flash and the adults become very deferential.  Is this Taiwanese idol a pop star?  No, he's a choir director!  (Truthfully, he's both.)  More seriously, the Bulgarian State Radio Choir never fails to amaze.

Labels: Composition, VideoClip, vocal