Play! A Video Game Symphony

Jason Tandro · Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:22 am

For those of you who don't know about this, Play! is the video game music symphony that has traveled the world (I only have heard bootleg tracks from the one in Stockholm on Youtube).

Official Tracks, Movies, etc of this event are what I really want! Anybody know where I can get my hand on this?

Super Mario Bros. (Series Medley)

Legend of Zelda

Sonic the Hedgehog

Final Fantasy VII

Chrono Trigger-Chrono Cross Medley

Halo

The Elder Scroll IV: Oblivion

Metal Gear Solid

World of Warcraft

Kingdom Hearts

Those are just a couple.

Blade · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:52 am Post subject:

haha! those sound awesome! A good way to waste time at work

but sorry, can't help you in finding anything off them...:/

thefencemaster · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:38 pm Post subject:

Sounds pretty amazing to me. If you'd like I could probably try getting one of my music pirates of friends to go out and try to find if, but it'll probably be a while before i get to talk to any of them.

psychokind · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject:

haha sonic is cool

Jason Tandro · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:27 pm Post subject:

With the Marble Zone, most def. But I felt the Green Hill Zone lacked a certain punch. Frankly, I believe there is some video game music that you can't orchestrate and keep the same feel, and the Sonic one almost proved that completely.

tay120n64 · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

Sonic belongs in the world of Rock. You can't orchestrate it. Same with Mega Man.

psychokind · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:41 pm Post subject:

tay120n64 wrote:Sonic belongs in the world of Rock. You can't orchestrate it. Same with Mega Man.

nothing belongs in the world of rock :/

and if I learned one thing in music history: you can orchestrate everything, even electronic music. orchestra is the most beautiful and complete form of music!

thefencemaster · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject:

psychokind wrote:
tay120n64 wrote:Sonic belongs in the world of Rock. You can't orchestrate it. Same with Mega Man.
nothing belongs in the world of rock :/

and if I learned one thing in music history: you can orchestrate everything, even electronic music. orchestra is the most beautiful and complete form of music!

I couldn't possibly agree more with you.

EverPhoenix · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:24 am Post subject:

psychokind wrote:
tay120n64 wrote:Sonic belongs in the world of Rock. You can't orchestrate it. Same with Mega Man.
nothing belongs in the world of rock :/

and if I learned one thing in music history: you can orchestrate everything, even electronic music. orchestra is the most beautiful and complete form of music!

LIES!

imo anything can be made to sound awesome if done in rock/metal.

and although i agree with the fact that orchestral music is very good, if you combine orchestra and metal (ie SYMPHONIC METAL) the results are awe-inspiringly epic.

on a side note, zelda has to be one of the best things ever to be played by an orchestra

Flamez · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:42 am Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti8O5Rbs ... re=related

as if you missed this awesome bit of music

Blade · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:48 am Post subject:

C'mon Psycho, listen to this and tell me to the face this is NOT the most awesome thing you've ever heard!

Virt - Blood of Ganon

Megaman and Sonic remixes are awesome!

The symphonic verison of ONe Winged Angel makes no Sense whatsoever, since its not far from the original...

psychokind · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:45 am Post subject:

Blade wrote:C'mon Psycho, listen to this and tell me to the face this is NOT the most awesome thing you've ever heard!

Virt - Blood of Ganon

I'm sorry, but definetely not

the drums and the guitar are not harmonical, the bpm in some parts reach the "only personal taste"-level several times. and it sounds very artificial.

imo anything can be made to sound awesome if done in rock/metal.

that's just impossible. how can an opera or electronic music sound more awesome in rock/metal?

never mix the mechanical component in music with your personal taste, because everybody has it's own, and you can only evaluate music in their technical assembly. I always advise people to try to clap an quaver, or at least a quarter measure, if they can't they can't estimate music

EverPhoenix · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:10 am Post subject:

psychokind wrote:
never mix the mechanical component in music with your personal taste, because everybody has it's own, and you can only evaluate music in their technical assembly. I always advise people to try to clap an quaver, or at least a quarter measure, if they can't they can't estimate music

wise words. but anyone can clap a quarter measure if they clap in time with themselves. different tempo and all.

and for convincing... well ill try...

Power, Wisdom, Courage

psychokind · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:46 pm Post subject:

EverPhoenix wrote:
wise words. but anyone can clap a quarter measure if they clap in time with themselves. different tempo and all.

and for convincing... well ill try...

Power, Wisdom, Courage

ok

I mean clap a quarter measure in a actual quarter measure and not in different tempo (btw, what does that mean

quarter measure IS a tempo). very little people can do that actually.

your song is a lot more melodic than blades (sorry^^), at least from the 2nd minute. until then it's too much RATATATA. still, I'd say metal is the lowest form of rock

Blade · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

psychokind wrote:
your song is a lot more melodic than blades (sorry^^), at least from the 2nd minute. until then it's too much RATATATA. still, I'd say metal is the lowest form of rock

This is like I'd say that DnB is the lowest form of electronical music.

But (and by this, I speak on a topic I've spent quite alot of time on) some forms of Metal are the most passionate in the whole town of "Rock".
95 % of Rock end at the "easy-listening", "broad audience MTV" barrier.
Metal (True Heavy Metal, not the Bullet for my Valentine Slipknot crap) went further. It brought mindblowing musicians, movements, lifestyles, subcultures, awareness of life...it's the á la carte of amplified n distorted music.

And last time I heard the song, guitars and drums were harmonic.

psychokind wrote: that's just impossible. how can an opera or electronic music sound more awesome in rock/metal?

Original
Final Fantasy VII - One Winged Angel

"Cover"
The Black Mages - One Winged Angel

Millions of FF-Fanboys can't be wrong

Oh, and if you like bpm, you can lend an ear to Aanal Nathrakh - Castigation and Betrayal
Yes, he's not singing, he's impersonating a dying human!

psychokind wrote:you can only evaluate music in their technical assembly. I always advise people to try to clap an quaver, or at least a quarter measure, if they can't they can't estimate music

psychokind wrote: ok I mean clap a quarter measure in a actual quarter measure and not in different tempo (btw, what does that mean quarter measure IS a tempo). very little people can do that actually.

Stop clapping and learn an instrument

Largo (40 - 60 bpm), Lento, Grave, Adagio, Andante, Moderato (120 bpm), Allegretto, Allegro, Vivo, Presto, Prestissimo (220 bpm) are tempos.
You can clap 4/4 tacts in any tempo you want. If I clap in Largo, it'll take longer than if you clap in Prestissimo. Still, we're both clapping in the same tact.

Very little people on the internet actually know what they're talking about!