Carolina Crown 2017 - "It Is"

Side View from Salem, VA 7/31/17

[@liong87]

really like that part "I know you"...I ve listened many times. :-D

[@fishdinners7760]

8:23 are some of the best stabs I've ever heard

[@kenneydixon4703]

3:00 the spicy bass runs ohhhhh 😌

[@brotatoechip.akadanielmcli7887]

The hardest musical opener in DCI history. Amazing

[@Mrtellitlikeitis]

Oh stop band twirp

[@augustr.4193]

@@Mrtellitlikeitis ?

[@jakeholman8569]

As someone that marched tuba on this show, it was easily the hardest show I've ever been fortunate enough to be a part of. The opener was definitely difficult, but the closer was a BEAST to get right from a stamina and environmental standpoint. Oh, and marching backwards at 5 to 5's over planks of wood with a tuba created very specific challenges lol

[@helicopter_traffic]

Amazing stuff my guys

[@CJPifer]

Crown brass: as outstanding as usual! Show design: like watching a car crash over 12 minutes.

[@michaelhood-dowd4454]

Caleb Pifer They explained the show on their website, odd? Yes. But not a car crash

[@brianjungen4059]

@DECLAN DOUGAN no corps does that. It's all about how it looks to the judges in the box.

[@AllStater09]

Fazing at the beginning really threw me off the tempo with the trumpets and mellophones. Though it came together when the low brass and drums came in. #doitupcrown

[@atomikfzr1]

I remember hearing that, it mightve sounded a bit different if I was seated on the 50

[@Falcon2.39-1]

atomikfzr1 crown that year was having lots of trouble early season with the opener, you can hear it in most recordings

[@jodishu423]

“What It Is”

[@AK-te6ln]

最高‼︎

[@aidanray4846]

今loveようbsj

[@jesuspectre9883]

8:10 What in God's name is going on? Where's our focus? Where is the eye drawn?

[@Jon-kx3ut]

That’s why the show is called it is

[@user-ho7kz1iv2r]

You're right! It's as though one has lost their sense of direction............

[@diegochavez7203]

Its hard to see from this angle. But the horn line is shuffling diagonally towards the singer with the bass drummer leading the way

[@jesuspectre9883]

@@Jon-kx3ut No one is buying your bullshit.

[@jesuspectre9883]

9:51 complete lack of focus, lack of dramatic action. In scripted works, even chaos has a collective focus. There's a point to it.

[@jesuspectre9883]

In scripted works, chaos should be used minimally, and like a potent spice. On the outside it appears to be wild chaos, but underneath the writer and producer/creator know it is a manipulated, orchestrated scripted chaos, measured and carefully constructed for maximum effect. On a movie set for example, you don't have your actors just running around with their hair on fire. It's all choreographed. The collective impact of scripted chaos is missing here. What's the point? By the end, where is the eye drawn? Professionals in the performing arts know that chaos is a device supporting a larger thematic purpose. You don't lose your "sense of DI-rection" for more than two minutes in a feature length film before the new objective is revealed. But in this twelve minute piece, chaos covers about four minutes. That's a lot of "no's".

[@mattdeveer3102]

I see your comments everywhere on drum corps youtube and I just kinda find it funny that you think there is a right way to do art. if you don't like it, fine, but don't say that it's simply "unscripted" if you can't find a focus point. Thought does go into show design, it's just that not everyone thinks like you

[@jesuspectre9883]

@@mattdeveer3102 Please explain the point of focus at the designated timecode. Thank you.

[@mattdeveer3102]

@@jesuspectre9883 my first time watching, I was taken aback by the fact that some brass players were playing 2 instruments at the same time. All of the non-traditional instruments on the triangle stages are the "point of focus" that I found on my first watch.

[@jesuspectre9883]

@@mattdeveer3102 The horns played percussion simultaneously. That seems like a task that takes super-awareness and great skill. How does that fit into "I've lost my sense of di-rection? How does that performance element mesh into the whole? Frankly, many many people I've asked didn't know that the horns played percussion in this segment. It doesn't draw enough focus. There's so much chaos, that it's hard to recognize the triangles as anything more than a stage set. This is an example of staging issues throughout this disjointed show. Great performers, professional quality dancers and musicians. But what what what are they doing?