You ever wonder why there has not been a trance song set to any part of Richard Wagner's imfamous: "Die Walküre"? After all Walkürenritt (Ride of the Valkyries) has to be one of better known/main stream pieces in "Classical" music. If for nothing else because it was immortalized in film by Copola's Apocalypse Now and Progressive Trance with it "oompa" 4/4 kick and bass and galloping gates is jjust begging for Wagner not to mention the endless arpeggios and grand chord progression...but here is the catch, Wagner composed a lot of stuff in 9/8 time. All of you music students might be snickering right now thinking about the task, or to make matters worse, Wagner's 9/8 time fun--In the "descent" arpeggio's at the beginning, he 5 notes like most would use triplets which causes the phrases to cascade. Bottom line, try and make 9/8 fit into 4/4. Sure you say, just sequence it to 9/8... how do you dance to that? one extra beat every major... that truly would be "trip hop". Well crazy me, has wanted to do just this for quite some time. But this is just not grab the midis and sequence drums, no... this is recompose the thing, in 4/4 time. The downside is no matter what you do, it will be a bit different, because there are simply... to many notes ;) So over the last day or so I have been knee deep in FL Studios piano rolls looping phrases over and over trying to figure out what really needs to be there, and what doesn't. Now granted, there may be some cool trick to getting 9/8 time to fit in 4/4, but it is just as much the way he wrote it that makes this pretty unique I think. One of the thing I did do for fun was to stretch out the "descend" waterfall like notes to see what the Chord was and wow... even though there has to be a few minor tweak due to the fact that a few of the notes are discordant--something you don't really notice because they are apart and happen so fast--the resulting chords are really pretty. I take those chords and make the main "trance gate" sequence/progression to create a key element that has a "hint" of Wagner, but still has that Wintermute to it ;) Well, it the first composition is about 85% complete--I am dreading the main theme because it is especially hard to make fit :)
Well, I will be posting the mixes here at some point and on another note, I never realized how much impact this piece had on both my "$yn329y" cycle and "World made of glass"...
WM
