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Browse piano sheets by The Cinematic Orchestra on Zen Virtual Piano. Jason Swinscoe has been doing business as The Cinematic Orchestra since the late 1990s. In a Red Bull Music Academy interview he recalled that his own music started with an acoustic guitar when he was about six, after he kept pestering his parents for one, and he was willing to accept a second-hand instrument. He studied art, film and sculpture at art school, and when people asked whether he would do more visual arts, his answer was that for him it is the same thing, translating ideas into music. An art student who describes music and pictures as one activity suggests a composer who thinks visually, which fits a group name that points toward film. Wikipedia notes that Swinscoe first formed a group called Crabladder in 1990 while studying Fine Art at Cardiff College, releasing one official single on his own Power Tools label. On the first Cinematic Orchestra record, he said, it was a total exploration on his own, with musicians doing live overdubs and a couple of drum parts, but generally all sampled. A first record built mostly from samples, with live players added on top, suggests a project that began in the studio and opened up toward a band over time. According to Wikipedia, the group’s sound, in both live and studio contexts, employs a live band that improvises along with a turntablist and electronic elements such as samples provided by Swinscoe. In the studio he will often remix the live source material to produce a combination of live jazz improvisation with electronica, so that it is difficult to tell where the improvisation ends and the production begins. With improvisation and production so hard to tell apart, the studio looks like one more instrument, and the listener is not asked to tell the two apart. Swinscoe said that what he thought was happening around Ma Fleur was that he was in clubs a lot, was losing interest in the club scene, and wanted to write a record that was a little less beat-oriented. To Build a Home is a song by the group with vocals and piano performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson; it was released on 29 October 2007 as the second single from Ma Fleur. A record made to be less beat-oriented, with piano and voice on its second single, can be read as a quiet turn in direction.
Browse piano sheets by The Cinematic Orchestra on Zen Virtual Piano.
Jason Swinscoe has been doing business as The Cinematic Orchestra since the late 1990s. In a Red Bull Music Academy interview he recalled that his own music started with an acoustic guitar when he was about six, after he kept pestering his parents for one, and he was willing to accept a second-hand instrument. He studied art, film and sculpture at art school, and when people asked whether he would do more visual arts, his answer was that for him it is the same thing, translating ideas into music. An art student who describes music and pictures as one activity suggests a composer who thinks visually, which fits a group name that points toward film.
Wikipedia notes that Swinscoe first formed a group called Crabladder in 1990 while studying Fine Art at Cardiff College, releasing one official single on his own Power Tools label. On the first Cinematic Orchestra record, he said, it was a total exploration on his own, with musicians doing live overdubs and a couple of drum parts, but generally all sampled. A first record built mostly from samples, with live players added on top, suggests a project that began in the studio and opened up toward a band over time.
According to Wikipedia, the group’s sound, in both live and studio contexts, employs a live band that improvises along with a turntablist and electronic elements such as samples provided by Swinscoe. In the studio he will often remix the live source material to produce a combination of live jazz improvisation with electronica, so that it is difficult to tell where the improvisation ends and the production begins. With improvisation and production so hard to tell apart, the studio looks like one more instrument, and the listener is not asked to tell the two apart.
Swinscoe said that what he thought was happening around Ma Fleur was that he was in clubs a lot, was losing interest in the club scene, and wanted to write a record that was a little less beat-oriented. To Build a Home is a song by the group with vocals and piano performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson; it was released on 29 October 2007 as the second single from Ma Fleur. A record made to be less beat-oriented, with piano and voice on its second single, can be read as a quiet turn in direction.
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The Cinematic Orchestra is the project of Jason Swinscoe, who has done business under that name since the late 1990s.
It is a song by the group with vocals and piano by Patrick Watson, released on 29 October 2007 as the second single from the album Ma Fleur.
A live band improvises along with a turntablist and electronic elements such as samples, and in the studio Swinscoe often remixes the live material so that it is hard to tell where improvisation ends and production begins.
He said that what he thought was happening around Ma Fleur was that he was losing interest in the club scene and wanted to write a record that was a little less beat-oriented.