Adrian Utley's Guitar Orchestra plays Terry Riley's 'In C' Live at AB - Ancienne Belgique

[@prescribedburn]

I love that the VCS was brought out just to be a metronome

[@Daniel-tm9fg]

Adrian Utley and Will Gregory created an epic music score for The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 silent movie). One of the best movies ever made. Funny because I was into silent movies for years, and only recently watched that movie, delaying for so long because I always thought religious subjects like saints and martyrdom irrelevant, and that it would be last movie I would want to watch...

[@agamarief4602]

beautifully done

[@graphicnick07]

Adrian Utley is a genius😮

[@heavenlymusiccorporationultd]

frankly the genius here is Terry Riley ... this is a masterpiece since it originally recorded first 1964 ... and beautiful versions have developed from that composition since then ... this is a nice one too, nevertheless ... (for sure also influenced by Robert Fripp's projects of crafty guitarists)

[@MartinJohnZ]

Is there a drop d version?

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

: ) which one is Pink?

[@borjar.6373]

Sounds like robert fripp

[@ericplaysbass]

Needs more cowbell!

[@914050]

I'll be honest fellas. It was sounding great, but I could of used a little more metronome.

[@zeitgeist909]

eh? I don't think you quite get what they were going for. The mixing and layering of time signatures is part of the point of the sound dude.

[@maljamin]

​@@zeitgeist909Dunno exactly what the joke was either but it's not particularly about mixing time signatures. It's more mixing... timeframes? I love me some math rock but honestly IN C is just .. hell Im gonna say 4/4 or even 1/1. It's that each pattern (per instrument) sorta picks up at its own time. Regardless.. just a huge piece for me, expanded my musical world.

[@VividhKothari-rd5ll]

​@@maljamin I think the joke references the 'Cowbell' SNL sketch, where Christopher Walken's character famously asks for 'more cowbell' during Blue Öyster Cult's recording of '(Don't Fear) The Reaper. At first, I didn’t get the connection, but then it hit me-the cowbell in that song actually sounds a lot like the pulse in 'In C.' I never noticed it before. So, yeah, the joke fits perfectly. In the sketch, Walken calls for more cowbell, and in 'In C' has pretty much constant pulse of 'cowbells' running throughouyt the entire hour long piece.

[@jennyjohn704]

In interesting idea but spoiled by too many guitarists adding little to the music. A more focused group of say half a dozen would have been more effective and more powerful.

[@charleskrutzen94]

Obviously you don't know the piece and the "directions of how to play" this composition. Here's a page that tells about it, with instructions by the composer himself: www.mtrs.co.uk/subscriptions/Downloads/minimalism_OK/in_C.pdf

[@supermorsa]

Thanks for the link Master!!! :)

[@maljamin]

Yeah there's no particular advantage in shrinking the variety of instrument. One or two or three per in instrument/range is plenty. So you can hear the variation, and still hear their interactions with the other classes of instrument. From what I understand you're supposed to change pattern within 3 or 4 measures of eachother.

[@VividhKothari-rd5ll]

All performers playing the same instrument at the same time, but only once during the entire duration sounds amazing. Like that 'Corona' edition of 'In C.' Around 40 minute mark, drums and pianos and everything drops, and there are just violins and cellos and it reaches this amazing crescendo.