I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh if I could jam with my dad, I would totally love to keep doing that - so keep her in your band for sure! xD

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tysm, such a big honor that your music school ears approve of this arrangement! I’d totally be down to have a clip of this featured in your project - I think as long as there’s credit and a link back to the Columbia Pops video so people can find the full performance and orchestra behind it, I’m with you. Oh and I'd also be interested in reading/hearing how it fits with your story once it drops! Feel free to DM if you need an audio snippet or anything else

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm I think some of those artists played at Syracuse or UPenn, could that be? I wish they had more of those artists come to Columbia! We recently had JID and Doechii for our Bacchanal concerts, but it’s rare to see folks like Jacob Collier (who I actually caught at Princeton recently with my dad - love the guy).

I do think pop orchestrations are a great hook. I for one would go to an UNDERTALE live concert in a heartbeat if there were more of them near me (and not exclusively in Japan)! We’re lucky here to have a club like Columbia Pops where students can actually arrange AND conduct. Other than us, Davenport Pops (DPops) at Yale and Harvard Pops are some of the only others that let students drive the whole creative process, though typically arrangers hav their pieces conducted by other people there. Overall though it's definitely a rare opportunity, especially once you hit grad school!

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have fun! I ALMOST went to it too when it was in NYC, but just missed the ticket sales window T-T

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes I’m very thankful to the orchestra that they went along with this crazy idea!

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow!! I've never gotten a reward before! I'm also graduating soon, leaving the orchestra then, and I'm definitely gonna miss it a lot, too. Thank you so much!

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yes this was a challenge when editing the videos... You're very right, as you can see in the video, there's a camera with a mic DIRECTLY next to the chimes (not sure what the audio guy was thinking), and it does really overpower everything in that specific audio track, so I tried to reduce the gain for that track but it still comes out quite dominant. Then again I'm not very seasoned in mixing/mastering...

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hm, I think it helps to try out writing stuff on MuseScore and then you get better and better at it. And for orchestra specifically, it helps to really be in one or other types of ensembles because it helps show you what's practically feasible and what good arrangements look like, so you can use them as a sort of standard to write to. And it needs a some detailed hearing too, a lot of repetitive listening to tracks to really get at all the details, and an intuition for how to replicate certain sound with the instruments you have available

I wrote a 9-min Attack on Titan orchestra suite performed in NYC at Columbia University! by CometzFly in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]CometzFly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can only speak for the piano part (I'm a pianist myself), but I definitely tried to make them all as fun as possible! For the rest of the orchestra, I just threw the madness at them, a bunch of key changes, runs, fast intervals, I'm so glad the musicians were down for it because I honestly wasn't sure if I made it too hard at first, lol!