A Music Video I Made

[greg]

Here's from the information on the page:

Video clip- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ep.6 (chronological order)
Music clip- Mahler Symphony No.6, 4th movement (cond.Tennstedt, LPO)

This is my first attempt at making a music video, so the editing isn't that great.
Around the end, I chop off certain parts so the music would fit in with the video, so several seconds of the video are actually missing around the end.

Originally, the video contained Mahler's 8th in the background. So, it's pretty bizarre, I think, to put the 6th in instead. But why not? It nearly sounds perfect- even the timing- just off by a few seconds, which is why I had to delete them.

What would be best might be impossible- erase the Mahler 8 background music in the clip and put this music as the background music. Then keep the original voices, so you hear the dialogue instead of just the music.

But, either way, hopefully someone enjoys...

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/wWeot5hVReI

[Harpo]

The music and the anime go together pretty well.

[Anne]

The music and the anime go together pretty well.

I agree!  It was well done.  I could feel and hear the suspense building!  The only thing I could wish for is script that I can read.  I could not read 90% of it.  That left me guessing what the story was.  It was especially frustrating since the music and action were so good.  (Yes, I do need new glasses.)

[greg]

I agree!  It was well done.  I could feel and hear the suspense building!  The only thing I could wish for is script that I can read.  I could not read 90% of it.  That left me guessing what the story was.  It was especially frustrating since the music and action were so good.  (Yes, I do need new glasses.)

Well, thanks. 

If you're interested in reading it (i understand how hard it would be to read that small  ), you can just click on the video twice and it'll direct you to the the page on youtube. Then just full-screen it from there and the subtitles should be big enough.

I think the reason why it works so well with the music is that that part of the 6th symphony is similar in nature to the clip of the 8th they used originally in that scene. For example, the "taking off" of the music when they start running (though if i would've timed it a second earlier, it would've sounded better  ).

The whole thing with the original music starts near the end of the first video and continues on to the next:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwrrwYeKvWM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXW8iXz9Qc&feature=related

(these are the videos i downloaded to make my own.) 

[greg]

I'm considering making a music video with Elfen Lied and the Penderecki Threnody.
This one might be a bit disturbing, lol- it would be the scene where the bullies beat the little girl's dog to death and then she screams and uses her "vectors" (invisible hands) to chop up all the kids in the room to pieces within seconds until the camera zooms out to show her standing there with the wall completely soaked in blood- and the final cluster of the Threnody would play and it would fade out. It'd be so perfect for this scene, in the most disturbing way. 

[fuhred]

I'm considering making a music video with Elfen Lied and the Penderecki Threnody.
This one might be a bit disturbing, lol- it would be the scene where the bullies beat the little girl's dog to death and then she screams and uses her "vectors" (invisible hands) to chop up all the kids in the room to pieces within seconds until the camera zooms out to show her standing there with the wall completely soaked in blood- and the final cluster of the Threnody would play and it would fade out. It'd be so perfect for this scene, in the most disturbing way. 

Greg, you might also want to check out the big 29-minute orchestral piece I wrote inspired by Elfen Lied. It is available for download at:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dc5v99bjqkobio2   

...and also my program notes for the work, which explains in detail what's happening at what point:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2d1lx96aq282ct1

The scene where the bullies beat the puppy to death and Lucy is driven over the edge is given a graphic treatment in my piece about half-way through. In fact, this was the scene that convinced me to write the piece in the first place. I have used the Garritan Personal Orchestra to play my piece, so it's a pretty fair simulation of a real orchestra. The piece is written in late-romantic style, with the three slaughter scenes (Lucy's escape from the facility at the beginning, the Bullies' in the middle, and Kanae's murder toward the end) obviously more dissonant. There are also episodes for Nyu (a playful scherzo) and, among others, a huge emotional scene just before the coda which depicts Kouta and Lucy's big embrace on the stone steps. I'd be interested to know what you think.

[ibanezmonster]

Hi, fuhred.
I just finished listening to that and want you to know that was... incredible! 
I actually got chills during certain moments. Not only was that written very well (and skillfully), but that pretty much sums up what it feels like watching the show. It actually even has a theme with the same "feeling" as Lilium, but didn't resort to plagiarism. Nicely played. 
(the only thing I care for about the piece was that abrupt, one-note ending)

Now that you've let me listen to it, you have to promise me that if it ever gets performed and recorded, you'll tell me.  I liked the style- a mixture of Romatic-ish plus Modern-ish, but I don't like seeing the labels like that. Maybe you can invent your own subgenre title for this? Just call the genre whatever you like... I don't know, "Elfenism?" 

[fuhred]

"Elfenism"! LOL! I like the sound of that sub-genre! (Although it would be pretty tough to do something like that again...) One person who heard it before described it as 'gothic horror' (!!) Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Kouta's theme is in F-sharp minor, the same key of the 'Lilium' theme. It also switches to D major for the second half of the theme as Lilium does, before returning to the original key. But that's as far as any similarities go. With the ending, I wasn't happy to end it in the same light manner as the anime (like eating sandwiches, the directors apparently said), so I went with the big slamming finish (echoes of the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Manfred there...). It just seemed more emotionally appropriate, I guess.

As you can probably guess, Elfen Lied made an enormous impact on me when I first saw it, I hope some of that shock comes across in the music. The thing that struck me most about the series was the fact that practically every character had been through ten kinds of hell to be where they were, and Lucy's plight in particular drew a very strong response from me.

I don't think a performance is on the cards in the near future, but if something does come up, I will certainly make sure that everyone knows about it (lol). Since I am totally self-taught and never attended a conservatorium or have fancy diplomas or initials after my name, it's tougher to get my foot in the door, so to speak. I need to check out more composer competitions and hope for the best...

[ibanezmonster]

Since I am totally self-taught and never attended a conservatorium or have fancy diplomas or initials after my name, it's tougher to get my foot in the door, so to speak. I need to check out more composer competitions and hope for the best...

I know what you mean- same for me.

Are you familiar with the Takemitsu competition?
http://www.operacity.jp/en/concert/award/index.php

I'm hoping I'll at least be able to make the 2015 competition, since it would be cool to meet Saariaho. 
(i'll be too busy for quite a while to be able to write, but I'm looking forward to the day that I can start up again). 

Elfen Lied was yet another show which didn't follow the manga at the end and didn't realize its full potential because of it. I'm not sure I would have liked it that long, but I thought the manga ending was a little better (though I could have done without the weird girl who wets her pants all the time). 

Although the manga explains this, I always thought it was so strange to have the series named after an obscure Hugo Wolf song lol...

[fuhred]

Thanks for the heads-up about the Takemitsu Award, Greg. Unfortunately I'm 43 this year, so I can't enter. Curse this ageism (lol)!!
I'd be interested to hear something that you've written, do you have any mp3s posted around?

There was tentative talk of a follow-up series to Elfen Lied, although nothing has materialized so far except for one OVA (not released in English). Apparently the manga was still running when the anime ended, so that's why the anime doesn't touch on a lot of the manga's issues. I agree, the character who wets herself was an unnecessary addition to the later part of the manga. What on earth was Okamoto thinking? I wonder what Hugo Wolf would have made of all this...

Oh, by the way, did you ever make that video using the Penderecki?

[ibanezmonster]

I never got around to making that Penderecki video... I had a lot of video ideas at the time but never did any of them. Hm, I'll keep it in mind, though- it was a good idea. 


My music... hopefully the stuff still works- a bunch of midi files, 6 opuses in all (I trimmed my works list down a little):
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,3174.msg418525.html#msg418525

I haven't written anything in about 4 years and that thread hasn't even been updated for nearly a year. I consider this stuff my "beginning music," and I'm working on "having my own voice." In fact, I just got off the keyboard, playing around with stuff that I seriously think will lead me into this (more of a building on previous ideas). I want to create a new type of genre for classical music- and maybe I'll come up with a name for it. "Elfenism"?  Nah, just kidding! 

What I'm working with now are ideas of certain harmonic progressions- stuff like Mahler appogiaturas (which you've used) mixed with a very common element of iv-I-(iv)vii-(I)- for example: E min- B maj- Ebmin- Bb maj, and gestures such as soft octaves fading into the distance, with an emphasis on softer dynamics and the bass register... kind of just trying to capture a certain feeling, and it's kind of hard to describe all of this in words. It would sound nothing like my other music, obviously.

[fuhred]

Thanks for the links, I like the piano sonata very much. It has a fair bit of Mosolov about it. I don't think I've ever seen a movement called 'Psycho Chickens' before. I loved that!! Of the other works, I enjoyed 'The Bend of Time' the most. As I ran it through my Sibelius 5, I was able to see the score. I was amused by your clever use of time signatures such as 23/16 and 1/8!
A nice result of running pieces through Sibelius is being able to add more realistic sounds to the original midi files. The Garritan Personal Orchestra's Steinway Piano sound is fantastic, and it really made the Op.1 Sonata come alive! If you would allow me to, I would like to upload the Steinway version to YouTube so everyone can hear it. It really is impressive. (Or I can send you the mp3s if you like.)


p.s. Try listening (again) to some of Scriabin's late piano works. They are magnificent!

[ibanezmonster]

Yeah, go ahead and upload it to youtube!  Good idea.

I actually have Sibelius 6, and I have the actual mp3 of The Bend of Time (clarinet sounds so realistic). The others I haven't converted to mp3 yet because I figured one day I'll work on actually getting it all nice and digital- meaning, the mp3 sounds instead of MIDI and actually getting the scores into pdf form, because right now they are all handwritten in a folder I have. Whenever I import MIDI into Sibelius, it messes with the notation and I have to touch up each score, which is quite a bit of work.