Play!: A Video Game Symphony
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ruTonight I went to go see the North Carolina Symphony perform Play!: A Video Game Symphony at the local amphitheater. Oh man you guys, there was serious awesomeness to be had. After all, how often can you go to a mainstream public event which caters specifically to video game music adapted for a full symphony? It's basically a retrospective of music from video games both old and new, accompanied by clips from the games themselves. It was really cool, even though about 3/4 of the way through it started to rain on us. I learned a few things while I was there:
--It is perfectly okay to throw devil horns at a concert during a performance of the music from Super Mario Bros.
--Cheering was also allowed for music from our favorite games, which means Super Mario Bros., Sonic, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts all got major cheers. Guess we know which games are popular. ^_^;
--The music from Silent Hill ROCKS. I mean, seriously rocks. They got an electric guitar out for it and everything, and it was awesome.
--People who ignore the "no flash photography" rule, and who decide to take pictures toward the dark-adapted audience, are jerks.
--Not everyone was there for the music of video games. I was kinda surprised to see how packed it was, but then realized not everyone in the audience was there to get their geek on, and that a lot of them probably came because they had season tickets and had nothing better to do. This was exemplified by a rather rude group of people we ended up standing near when we took shelter from the rain under the overhang at the back of the ampitheater. They would not shut up about Spain, forcing us to eventually move to somewhere where we could hear the music.
--People who sit on the lawn go ALL OUT. I saw some folks that had set up little tables, or had wild and elaborate lawn chairs, or basically brought a small fridge with them. Talk about hard core. XD
Despite the rain, it was still an awesome show, and I had some major fun at it. ^_^
--It is perfectly okay to throw devil horns at a concert during a performance of the music from Super Mario Bros.
--Cheering was also allowed for music from our favorite games, which means Super Mario Bros., Sonic, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts all got major cheers. Guess we know which games are popular. ^_^;
--The music from Silent Hill ROCKS. I mean, seriously rocks. They got an electric guitar out for it and everything, and it was awesome.
--People who ignore the "no flash photography" rule, and who decide to take pictures toward the dark-adapted audience, are jerks.
--Not everyone was there for the music of video games. I was kinda surprised to see how packed it was, but then realized not everyone in the audience was there to get their geek on, and that a lot of them probably came because they had season tickets and had nothing better to do. This was exemplified by a rather rude group of people we ended up standing near when we took shelter from the rain under the overhang at the back of the ampitheater. They would not shut up about Spain, forcing us to eventually move to somewhere where we could hear the music.
--People who sit on the lawn go ALL OUT. I saw some folks that had set up little tables, or had wild and elaborate lawn chairs, or basically brought a small fridge with them. Talk about hard core. XD
Despite the rain, it was still an awesome show, and I had some major fun at it. ^_^
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Date: 2009-07-12 01:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-12 02:29 pm (UTC)I know that I absolutely love some of the orchestra adaptations of songs that I downloaded, but omg I didn't realize they were still doing tours. LOOKIN' THAT UP NOW.
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Date: 2009-07-13 02:08 am (UTC)Some other neat things have been done with video game music too. For example, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnf6E9gocCk). ^_^
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Date: 2009-07-13 02:18 am (UTC)