I have recently stumbled upon quite a few interesting things that can add to the discussion about digital versus analogue/acoustic in music. It seems to me that classical symphonies, instead of looking back in time in a conservative way that might be thought of has instead started to collaborate quite extensively with the electronic/digital music scene. Maybe the most known phenomenon of this is in music today is Detroit techno legend Jeff Mill’s collaboration with Montpelier Philharmonic Orchestra (clip can be seen here). And today I found this on one of my favourite record label’s website. It is a trailer for a DVD and CD by the band Phoneheads and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. An interesting collaboration indeed. Another example of this is the popularity different Symphonies around the world have gained with performing nostalgic tunes from video games. I’ll try and deal with this in another post.
February 11, 2008 at 8:25 am
It’s interesting to see their collaboration~Classical + techno.
I think this kind of “real instrument” collaboration with techno music becomes a trend as against sampling and synth instruments. It’s cool that timing for DJ and the whole band becomes not really an issue anymore.
Nuyorican Soul in North America is also a project that tries to collaborate DJ with real instruments instead of synth and sampling, but most of the sounds they create are a bit “Latin-ish”.