Beethoven: 9th Symphony - 4th Movement, abridged (Synthesized)

[@capedone]

You answered my prayers with a remake of this! Wendy Carlos would be proud i think

[@CareyRMeltz]

Thanks so much Noel. I had started experiments with the Scherzo a number of years ago but got bored and spent a lengthy time manually sequencing Carlos’ abridged arrangement of her March from A Clockwork Orange. The work was very tedious with so many tracks of instruments and vocalists to create sounds for. I’d had it on the back-burner for a few years but I revisited the project last month and it all sort of took off on its own. I’m still in a bit of awe that I was able to accomplish this very complex project… especially as a sincere homage to WC.

[@DSZI.ShyHunterBB]

This is incredibly work you’ve done here!

[@CareyRMeltz]

Thanks very kindly.

[@Geopholus]

You ALWAYS create something that is EXCEPTIONAL. Love the graphics also !

[@CareyRMeltz]

Thanks Geo. Those graphics were almost as tedious to create as was the music. 😆

[@jeffreykalb9752]

Mr. Meltz, "Deine Zauber binden wieder Was die Mode streng geteilt..."

[@HarveyGlasner]

Carey! Brilliant and Amazing! ❤

[@CareyRMeltz]

Thanks so much Harvey. I’d been working on it here and there for a couple of years (the manual note input was brutal) and then it sort of took off on its own and came together over a few weeks. I am really proud of this one as it is the most complex project I’ve worked on to date. It came out exactly as I always hoped it would… a real tribute to the version Wendy Carlos created for A Clockwork Orange.

[@michaelgreaves2375]

HORROR SHOW!!! You are one righteous chelovick for this to have come out of your gulliver.

[@CareyRMeltz]

LOL thanks!

[@Vextrove]

I was cured, all right

[@CareyRMeltz]

😆

[@simoncrocket2040]

Wow - I missed seeing this one Carey - again a stupendous performance ! Alive, exciting, and brilliant sounds and vocodering (?) A total joy to listen too

[@CareyRMeltz]

Thank you so much Simon. It’s possibly the most complex project I’ve undertaken and sequenced it years ago. I was really pleased how quickly it seemed to all come together when I decided to take it on again. I’m very proud of this work.

[@R.P.Pyotrsovich]

Viddy well, brother! Viddy well!

[@CareyRMeltz]

LOL thanks. 😊

[@JoseAlbertoBalboa]

Thank you very much and congratulations on your excellent version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It sounds excellent, and it seems like a great success to do it using Wendy Carlos's style and color of sound. I imagine it must have taken many hours of work, but it was worth it. I would like to know the instrumentation you have chosen for this project, that is, the synthesizers you have used and the sequencer you have used. The work on the voices with vococer seems brilliant to me. I encourage you to continue surprising us with your versions and to continue doing so with an open mind as you have approached this work. I mention it because there are sounds that remind me of Isao Tomita and that option seems like a success to me. Thank you for the decision to do it and carry it out and thank you for the music.

[@CareyRMeltz]

Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed comment. It did indeed take many hours to produce and I completed it over a couple of years - the sequencing alone (manual note entry) was brutal! It is my cover of Wendy Carlos' version so I tried to emulate her sound as much as I could. This project was sequenced using Finale and the instrument sounds were created easily with the free synthesizer plug-ins that come with Mixcraft. The "whistle" isn't a nod to Tomita in this piece - it is the flute line in the March portion that Carlos made a whistle to represent the movie's protagonist Alex.

[@thepalaceworm]

And it IS like, for seven minutes Oh My Brothers, some great bird has flown into my KZbin feed. This is like a bird of rarest spun Heaven Metal. Thank You for this. So beautiful. So horrowshow My Brother.

[@keeeefy]

Bravissimo Stupendo Maestro Wow Carey What to Say !!! We have just listened to this while having our dinner on the mobile. I'm sure it will even more mind blowing through our sound system. Dax said that's nice what is it I SAID ITS CAREY 🤣 Well done mate this is so intricate I'll have to listen many times to hear everything 🙏

[@CareyRMeltz]

So glad you enjoyed! I’m sure we’ll chat in private. Take care.

[@Laundry_Hamper]

magnificent thumbnail. oh, and great synthesising too :P

[@CareyRMeltz]

Thanks so much. I created the graphics too. (Well, modified the one I made for my other A Clockwork Orange piece “La Gazza Lara”).

[@top40researcher31]

A clockwork orange the movie may not that great but the soundtrack was something else

[@JRDRAY007]

Évidemment like Bises bravo.

[@ehfik]

oh, what a treat. being a native german speaker, the voice sounds pretty uncanny, but pretty. weird accent. nonetheless, thank you!

[@CareyRMeltz]

The German singing without a German accent certainly would give it a strange accent to you. 😆 It was a conscious decision to do so - giving the voices more of a robotic quality as Wendy Carlos did in her original version.

[@capedone]

@@CareyRMeltzi always wondered how Wendy achieved the timbre of the vocoder voice in her original version.

[@ebronger67]

It is singing German with an American accent !!!!! :-(

[@CareyRMeltz]

Exactly as was in Carlos’ version. 😊