It is many years, too, since I first heard Wendy Carlos's electronic realizations of and elaborations upon "the glorious Ninth" of "Ludwig van." It would be foolish of me to pretend that some molecules in the present formula do not owe something to that wicked clever example.
Most immediately, I suppose, is the remix I created of a handbell choir rehearsal take of Charles Turner's arrangement of The Hebrew Children. The idea-question formed, What if I applied this method to an object of The Literature?
As with the Turner, I gravitated intuitively to an example which I like. In hindsight, affection for the source material is probably a prerequisite for the musical success of the result.
Without further ado, my repurposing of a stone-cold classic:
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As I said on Facebook already, "You go, Karl!!"
This is fun and lovely and deeply disturbing in a good way. Thanks for this!!
Amen! Karl is keeping American music great! :)
Cheers, gents!
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