Music Discovery Project

Very interested to know what real fans of classical music think of this. Before anyone says it, I understand it isn't classical but based on your musical tastes, does it somehow bridge the gap between the old and new?

kawaii

To me it is older than the old and worse than the new.
What is he aiming to do?

The Mad Hatter

Is it just me or does the orchestra have like four notes in that whole piece?

Cheesy, repetitive and hackneyed.

Not that I'm opposed to all crossovers, mind. (Don't play if you don't like Metal...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtF7ql3FJc

I'm not the biggest Metallica fan in the world, but at least they put their orchestra to some use.

Norrdeth

It's more like a dance song with orchestra accompaniment rather then the orchestra being used in an important or unique context, I'm a big fan of synth with orchestra but it just seems he could have done this on a computer and it would have sounded the same.

However......
The best band album with a Symphony orchestra has to beeee

Once by Nightwish

Here's one of the best tracks on the album I think.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Wo8LCDUKI

evolving_doors

Kind of interesting for the first 10 seconds but then it just sounded like musical masturbation...e.g. play long pedal drone note and you drop in and out occurrences of sounds/textures ..(think..hippies with didgeredoos and drum circles)..
I think he's going for the visual rather than the musical..really and truly as previous poster Norrdeath said if he'd done all the sounds at home with sequencing software without an orchestra would we care..

Upshot..PVDyke thinks he's 'the bomb' jumpin round twiddlin nobs with an excited orchestra pretending to care.......but there aint no substance
Then again..That's just my opinion..

P.S. Orchestral Metallica WTF?

g5fd6ow0hseima

So in comparing the Paul Van Dyk video with this, who wins?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STpOak4iAJY

Scubadevils

The only orchestra/electronic act that I've seen and enjoyed (loved actually) is the following by Carl Craig.

http://www.grandcrew.com/videos/carl-craig-live-concert-cite-musique

Carl Craig's music played by an orchestra with some electronic input.

rcaz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZoCOClM3s