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What would Mozart think and do with the Kronos?
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 5:42 pm
by runningman67
Just a bit of fun.
I think that maybe it would only add to his composing genius. Or it could equally send him nuts!!
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:10 pm
by Diego5150
I think it may get his wig in a twist with all the options, levers & knobs.
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:08 pm
by HardSync
Why am I reminded of this scene from Bill & Ted?
[edit: vid was taken down -- apologies]
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:21 pm
by Sharp
As in send one back in time to him?
There's no option on the poll for “Witchcraft and Burning it at the Stake”....lol
If Mozart was a live now, his name would be John Williams, or Hans Zimmer or one of the many greats of our time.
Today’s Orchestral music is seriously high quality workmanship.
Regards
Sharp.
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 7:31 pm
by runningman67
Sharp wrote:l
If Mozart was a live now, his name would be John Williams, or Hans Zimmer or one of the many greats of our time.
Today’s Orchestral music is seriously high quality workmanship.
Regards
Sharp.
This
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:56 pm
by SanderXpander
I kinda hate how you just virtually equated Zimmer and Williams LOL
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:14 am
by Sharp
SanderXpander wrote:I kinda hate how you just virtually equated Zimmer and Williams LOL
lol... which do you prefer ?
John Williams is awesome, a purist in the sense he will not use digital instruments.
Hans Zimmer who is also awesome, but also the complete opposite when it comes to technology in Orchestral Muisc. He's no problem using synths in his work.
Me personally I love them both, but Zimmer does have a more kick ass appeal.
Regards
Sharp.
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:55 am
by BasariStudios
In my opinion he would put it on eBay or not buy it at all.
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:57 am
by danmusician
I suspect Bach and Beethoven would use instruments like the Kronos to create new timbres and textures and take the machines to their outer limits. Bach was always tinkering with the pipe organ and Beethoven kept stretching the piano and orchestra.
In Mozart's case, I'm not sure which direction he'd take. He did expand the orchestra and certainly pushed music to the limits of the available instruments. He clearly didn't need the help of technology to realize his music. I suspect that the mathematical side of the technology would appeal to him. It would be very interesting to see what he might do!
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:42 am
by michelkeijzers
I think Mozart would TRY to play the Kronos, but does not hear anything because electricity (in that way) was not yet invented.
What happens next might be unclear. He might send it to a piano repair person, who disassembles it, noticing it doesn't have hammers, probably thinking it is a kind of mockup of a piano keybed.
So I would suppose, also supply him with:
- a steam machine for power
- an adapter for connecting the Kronos to the steam machine
- sending some speakers
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:11 pm
by SanderXpander
Sharp wrote:SanderXpander wrote:I kinda hate how you just virtually equated Zimmer and Williams LOL
lol... which do you prefer ?
John Williams is awesome, a purist in the sense he will not use digital instruments.
Hans Zimmer who is also awesome, but also the complete opposite when it comes to technology in Orchestral Muisc. He's no problem using synths in his work.
Me personally I love them both, but Zimmer does have a more kick ass appeal.
Regards
Sharp.
As much as I love synths, personally I feel John Williams is by far the more eloquent and subtle composer. Yes, he is more of a purist and won't use sounds that Zimmer will, but Zimmer (in my humble opinion) way too often goes for simplistic bombastic stuff.
But, difference of taste is what makes the world go round
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:05 pm
by Joe Gerardi
Well, I seriously doubt he'd do much with it- there was no electricity to plug in to!
Additionally, there were no headphones or sound reinforcement.
..Joe
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:48 pm
by danmusician
Joe Gerardi wrote:Well, I seriously doubt he'd do much with it- there was no electricity to plug in to!
Additionally, there were no headphones or sound reinforcement.
..Joe
It would be much more interesting to bring Mozart to the future than the Kronos to the past.
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:24 am
by vstkeys
Lol Do you mean what Mozart would do witha kronos 61?
He would burn it and order all kronos 61 to be destroyed, No doubt !
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:19 am
by jeebustrain
if you want to have an idea what a composer like Beethoven would do if you put him in front of a synthesizer like the Kronos, all you have to do is look back to the classic movie, "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure." According to this, his synthesizers would sound like an electric guitar and he would be in the band Extreme and play this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1_WCYGa-w
(note, I couldn't find the actual clip on youtube, but this was the song)