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Software called SoundTrap served as “an audio Google Doc where students could hone their parts and add to the mix,” says Williams. It was an especially weird experience, since many of us had never met before.” “We all needed to have trust in each other to really know our parts. “Pulling the whole thing together this time was an interesting process, to say the least,” Capozzi says. He was part of the King Crimson performance a year ago, calling it “an incredible experience.” This year’s performance was different, but also rewarding. “I’d have been hard-pressed to name any songs other than ‘Money’” when the semester began, Capozzi says. Only because it is his roommate’s favorite record, “Dark Side of the Moon” was familiar to Connor Capozzi, a fifth-year electrical engineering and sound recording technology (SRT) major from Windham, New Hampshire, who played keyboards and Ableton (a digital audio workstation and instrument) on the session. “Some students had never met before, and we even tracked a couple of songs before one of the students waved to another to introduce himself,” says Williams. Recording was staggered in slots of six or seven players to adhere to social distancing standards. The footage was edited by Williams.ĭuring the semester, classes were conducted over Zoom, with painstaking listening and plotting of who would play what.
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The video was shot by Williams and Jude Porter, the son of Williams’ bandmate Greg Porter, with ensemble guitar player Leo Folan contributing. The other two chose to contribute their parts from home. Recorded over three days in November in a small studio space Williams named The Aviary in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the nearly 44-minute video featured 13 of the class’s 15 students in the studio. “This semester,” says Williams, “I thought, what album would we be able to do live and with this group of students?”
A spring semester performance of Crimson’s “Red” album was scrapped when the pandemic arrived. It is the second year the ensemble class has rendered a rock classic, but last year’s project, King Crimson’s “In The Court of the Crimson King,” was performed live before an audience in Durgin Hall. “We were so inspired by collective music making that everyone not only brought their A game, but also delivered performances they didn't know they had in them,” says Williams. She learned the wordless “Great Gig” section by listening over and over to the original, then learning it section by section. It’s so nice to see positive feedback from the people who’ve watched.” To see it practically blowing up on YouTube and social media feels amazing. “I’m shocked by the response,” says Richard, a senior music business major from Townsend, Massachusetts, who was first of the three to vocalize on “Great Gig.” “I thought it would go over well around school. Much of the praise has gone to the trio of women – Kamryn Richard, Mia Farwell and Kaitlin Whiteman, who turned on a stunning rendition of session singer Clare Torry’s impressionistic vocal on “The Great Gig in the Sky,” a cornerstone of the album. Williams says one commenter, who praised the performance, works for Roger Waters, Pink Floyd’s bassist/vocalist and the album’s lyricist. “You made me cry with your performance, folks,” one viewer wrote after watching the video. “If it was lousy, no one would have heard or seen it,” Williams says with a chuckle.īut comments from across the globe are overwhelmingly positive, even reflective. Williams knew there was no excusing a subpar performance, even during a pandemic that had students performing the song “Breathe” in face masks. Alan Williams, who decided the group would learn and perform Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece, which is hailed as an artistic and technical triumph, and has spent more than 950 weeks on the charts, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. The video vividly captures the culmination of the fall semester’s work by The Pink Floyd Ensemble, a class named for the iconic English band.
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A video of a music ensemble class’s performance of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” has gone viral, earning praise from far and wide, logging more than 20,000 views in its first full day on YouTube.
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