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Jun 5, 2012 - 6:22 AM
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Lhurgoyf
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I was at the closing concert of ALIEN: BIOMECHANICAL SYMPHONY & ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL: CINEMA OF ART AND BLOOD and I must be somewhat critical. I guessed that since the festival is in its fifth year, the organizers learned from the past seasons and perfected the event, but sadly no.
Here are some of my criticism:
1. Choices of cues (especially in part 2). Why they didn't chose a main 2 or 3 cues from each Goldenthal's scores to keep the concert flowing? Instead there were these long chunks from Interview with Vampire / Titus / Frida with some uninteresting cues. Just keep it simple, include the main themes and more films (Final Fantasy suite would be a breath of fresh air).
2. Shortness of cues. Why, oh why they included those 0:30 second cues in there? You just don't include this short cues in concert - if you must have them there, just merge it with something or arrange a lenghtly concert suite. It was very weird also for the audience. You just started to listen to the orchestra and than BAM, The End.
3. Dragging of concert. Believe me, I love long concerts, but this dragged waaay to long. At the end you can just felt the impatience of audience because of the horrible uncomfortable chairs, choice of slow and quiet cues at the end (just end a concert with a bang, not with those quiet cues) and the unecessary interviews. (if I'm on the film music concert, I want to hear speak Mr. Goldenthal, and not Julie Taymor, or the long-talking polish female host).
4. The visual projection. It was fantastic to see the various shots of orchestra playing and projecting it on the big screen. However, during many cues, they projected just some static Alien concept art panning veeeeery slowly across the screen - it was tedious and boring. Also, they projected some film footage to the screen, but this footage wasn't synched or linked in any way to the performed music. They just selected the random scenes and played that - that's just lazy. If you are this lazy, just keep it simple and project the orchestra on the screen. It was sufficient enough.
5. The venue wasn't ready for 5000 people. It didn't start on time because there were only 2 entrances/exits. Also, it was embarrassing and disrespectful to the orchestra to see the massive exodus of people running for their lives at the end because otherwise they won't catch the bus or tram to the city.
This is not meant to be trolling, it mean it to be a constructive criticism. Hopefully the organizers learn from the mistakes and next year it will be perfect (btw city of Krakow is very nice).
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Jun 5, 2012 - 8:23 AM
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crocodile
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I was at the closing concert of ALIEN: BIOMECHANICAL SYMPHONY & ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL: CINEMA OF ART AND BLOOD and I must be somewhat critical. I guessed that since the festival is in its fifth year, the organizers learned from the past seasons and perfected the event, but sadly no.
Here are some of my criticism:
1. Choices of cues (especially in part 2). Why they didn't chose a main 2 or 3 cues from each Goldenthal's scores to keep the concert flowing? Instead there were these long chunks from Interview with Vampire / Titus / Frida with some uninteresting cues. Just keep it simple, include the main themes and more films (Final Fantasy suite would be a breath of fresh air).
2. Shortness of cues. Why, oh why they included those 0:30 second cues in there? You just don't include this short cues in concert - if you must have them there, just merge it with something or arrange a lenghtly concert suite. It was very weird also for the audience. You just started to listen to the orchestra and than BAM, The End.
3. Dragging of concert. Believe me, I love long concerts, but this dragged waaay to long. At the end you can just felt the impatience of audience because of the horrible uncomfortable chairs, choice of slow and quiet cues at the end (just end a concert with a bang, not with those quiet cues) and th
e unecessary interviews. (if I'm on the film music concert, I want to hear speak Mr. Goldenthal, and not Julie Taymor, or the long-talking polish female host).
4. The visual projection. It was fantastic to see the various shots of orchestra playing and projecting it on the big screen. However, during many cues, they projected just some static Alien concept art panning veeeeery slowly across the screen - it was tedious and boring. Also, they projected some film footage to the screen, but this footage wasn't synched or linked in any way to the performed music. They just selected the random scenes and played that - that's just lazy. If you are this lazy, just keep it simple and project the orchestra on the screen. It was sufficient enough.
5. The venue wasn't ready for 5000 people. It didn't start on time because there were only 2 entrances/exits. Also, it was embarrassing and disrespectful to the orchestra to see the massive exodus of people running for their lives at the end because otherwise they won't catch the bus or tram to the city.
This is not meant to be trolling, it mean it to be a constructive criticism. Hopefully the organizers learn from the mistakes and next year it will be perfect (btw city of Krakow is very nice).
I can agree with some of you criticism, actually even most of it. But I actually liked the longer suites from films. It made the concert flow better for me. It felt more thought out serious performance, rather than a typical random BEST OF selection.
Don't get me wrong it would have been wonderful to hear Goldenthal's cues from different films, but it worked for me in this form.
And yeah, the chairs were horrible. But then again, this year's edition almost didn't happen (the festival was pretty much dead back in March) so all those shortcomings can be forgiven, I reckon. 
Karol
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