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THE STUDIO — There are just some questions we all want answered.
Like why do we say an alarm clock is "going off" when really it's turning on? Or why do we drive on the parkway, yet park in the driveway? And the ever-popular "does a tree falling in a forest make a sound if no one is there to hear it?"
Maybe I'm the only one really asking these questions, but I'm also asking this one: what does a classical piece of music sound like played on 30 turntables?
While I'll never get the answers to some of my questions, I now have an answer to that last one, because it sounds like this.
This video highlights the world's first ensemble performance using only turntables and mixers, according to the YouTube description. The Philharmonic Turntable Orchestra reconstructed Mendelssohn: Concerto in E Minor using more than 30 turntables and mixers, and what we get is an odd rendition of the classical piece.
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What would it be like to live somewhere four times as crowded as Manhattan? This video has the answer.Overall, I got into the music, but I could hear my mother in the back of my head saying, "This is just noise. How is this music? Just awful."
This also wouldn't be the first time I've heard her say this, and it won't be the last. This version of Mendelssohn is not going to please everyone, but maybe you can at least appreciate the effort and planning this must have taken. Or maybe not, I don't really care, I'm just happy to know you have now seen it.
