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Title: I need your help... again.
Post by: Kiddiarni on September 08, 2007, 02:11:20 PM
Hey guys.

The freshman day is coming up, but right now we're looking for some music to play while one freshman is being brutally "slaughtered" on stage.  (Which is done every year).

It's part of the freshman "play" and splatter and slaughter is a tradition in that one...

Any ideas?  I'm looking for psychotic, fast, frightening... stuff that would be played in a movie when the bad guy is ripping the victim apart.
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Bonehelm on September 08, 2007, 03:11:42 PM
Quote from: Kiddiarni on September 08, 2007, 02:11:20 PM
Hey guys.

The freshman day is coming up, but right now we're looking for some music to play while one freshman is being brutally "slaughtered" on stage.  (Which is done every year).

It's part of the freshman "play" and splatter and slaughter is a tradition in that one...

Any ideas?  I'm looking for psychotic, fast, frightening... stuff that would be played in a movie when the bad guy is ripping the victim apart.

Mahler's 2nd symphony - 1st movt.
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Larry Rinkel on September 08, 2007, 03:21:19 PM
Quote from: Kiddiarni on September 08, 2007, 02:11:20 PM
Hey guys.

The freshman day is coming up, but right now we're looking for some music to play while one freshman is being brutally "slaughtered" on stage.  (Which is done every year).

It's part of the freshman "play" and splatter and slaughter is a tradition in that one...

Any ideas?  I'm looking for psychotic, fast, frightening... stuff that would be played in a movie when the bad guy is ripping the victim apart.

"Gorgon" by Christopher Rouse.
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: BachQ on September 08, 2007, 04:01:48 PM
The Enemy of God and the Dance of the Spirits from Schythian Suite by Prokofiev
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Larry Rinkel on September 08, 2007, 04:05:49 PM
Quote from: Kiddiarni on September 08, 2007, 02:11:20 PM
Hey guys.

The freshman day is coming up, but right now we're looking for some music to play while one freshman is being brutally "slaughtered" on stage.  (Which is done every year).

It's part of the freshman "play" and splatter and slaughter is a tradition in that one...

Any ideas?  I'm looking for psychotic, fast, frightening... stuff that would be played in a movie when the bad guy is ripping the victim apart.

The funeral rites chorus from Act One of Philip Glass's Akhnaten.
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Bogey on September 08, 2007, 04:08:13 PM
Quote from: Larry Rinkel on September 08, 2007, 04:05:49 PM
The funeral rites chorus from Act One of Philip Glass's Akhnaten.

Did not know that you enjoyed Glass Larry....or was the above just a suggestion.
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Larry Rinkel on September 08, 2007, 04:57:09 PM
Quote from: Bogey on September 08, 2007, 04:08:13 PM
Did not know that you enjoyed Glass Larry....or was the above just a suggestion.

I sometimes enjoy him, but I don't think he's very good.  :D
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Bogey on September 08, 2007, 05:01:44 PM
Quote from: Larry Rinkel on September 08, 2007, 04:57:09 PM
I sometimes enjoy him, but I don't think he's very good.  :D

Sounds like something Abraham Lincoln would of said in one of his stump speeches....this kind of wit is always valued at this end. (LOL)
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: marvinbrown on September 08, 2007, 05:06:42 PM
Quote from: Kiddiarni on September 08, 2007, 02:11:20 PM
Hey guys.

Any ideas?  I'm looking for psychotic, fast, frightening... stuff that would be played in a movie when the bad guy is ripping the victim apart.

  Try passages from R. Strauss' ELEKTRA- what I highlighted in bold above comes quite close to what actually happens in the opera.... 

  marvin
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Kullervo on September 08, 2007, 08:41:20 PM
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Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: hautbois on September 08, 2007, 10:07:33 PM
Quote from: Corey on September 08, 2007, 08:41:20 PM
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Bernard Hermann's shower scene music from the movie Psycho is just perfect.

Howard
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Kiddiarni on September 09, 2007, 03:07:32 AM
It is.  But then again, it's to well known... and not as cool as if we had something fewer people have heard...
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: 71 dB on September 09, 2007, 03:12:36 AM
The best effect is achieved by using as beautiful music as possible (e.g. Air from Bach's 3rd orch. suite). That really works, just watch Battle Royale movie.

Quote from: hautbois on September 08, 2007, 10:07:33 PM
Bernard Hermann's shower scene music from the movie Psycho is just perfect.

Howard

I don't think so, it would be an unbearable cliché!  :P
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: DavidW on September 09, 2007, 05:31:29 AM
Quote from: Kiddiarni on September 08, 2007, 02:11:20 PM
Any ideas?  I'm looking for psychotic, fast, frightening... stuff that would be played in a movie when the bad guy is ripping the victim apart.

You really can't go wrong with Pachelbel's Canon. :)
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: DavidW on September 09, 2007, 05:32:45 AM
Quote from: Bogey on September 08, 2007, 04:08:13 PM
Did not know that you enjoyed Glass Larry....or was the above just a suggestion.

Hey Bill do you watch Psych?  They had a line that I almost made my sig--

Sean: "Dude she has a headache, quick whistle something from Philip Glass to make it worse."

>:D
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Bogey on September 09, 2007, 05:33:53 AM
Quote from: DavidW on September 09, 2007, 05:32:45 AM
Hey Bill do you watch Psych?  They had a line that I almost made my sig--

Sean: "Dude she has a headache, quick whistle something from Philip Glass to make it worse."

>:D

That is a great line David.  And speaking of lines, where do you line up with Galss?
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: DavidW on September 09, 2007, 05:40:44 AM
Quote from: Bogey on September 09, 2007, 05:33:53 AM
That is a great line David.  And speaking of lines, where do you line up with Galss?

I like him, I've no problem with minimalism.  I've only heard a few of his symphonies though, haven't thoroughly explored his output (but of course heard his music in movies alot).  There is only one work of minimalism that I really like though, and that's Gorecki's 3rd.
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: PerfectWagnerite on September 09, 2007, 06:29:41 AM
I suggest excerpts from Brian's 4th Symphony, the so-called "The Psalm of Victory", where it says: May thy foot be dipped in the blood of thy enemy, and the tongue of thy dog the same.
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Kiddiarni on September 09, 2007, 06:35:46 AM
Thanks for the ideas, will most surely be helpful.

I especially like the 'Air on a G-String' or Canon, reminds me of the irony in Tarantino's Kill Bill, where Uma is slaughtering dozens of men while you listen to Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"...

-K
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: PerfectWagnerite on September 09, 2007, 06:54:26 AM
Quote from: Kiddiarni on September 09, 2007, 06:35:46 AM
Thanks for the ideas, will most surely be helpful.

I especially like the 'Air on a G-String' or Canon, reminds me of the irony in Tarantino's Kill Bill, where Uma is slaughtering dozens of men while you listen to Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"...

-K
Is there a point to that movie other than killing is pretty cool?
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Kiddiarni on September 09, 2007, 07:35:49 AM
Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on September 09, 2007, 06:54:26 AM
Is there a point to that movie other than killing is pretty cool?

Yeah - Killing with ninja swords is really cool... :D
Title: Re: I need your help... again.
Post by: Kullervo on September 09, 2007, 11:43:34 AM
Quote from: 71 dB on September 09, 2007, 03:12:36 AM
[The music from Psycho] would be an unbearable cliché!  :P

That's the idea. Just go for broke.