Alice in Wonderland: An Acid Trip

The local college is doing a production of Alice in Wonderland. I auditioned, but I'm too damn tall to do what the director had in mind, which was to have actors using a three-foot tall platform with trap doors to make entrances, exits, and costume changes under, thus no cast member is taller than 5'9".

 

So I've been a little depressed, but getting over it, and then I made a version of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" that employed a saw bass-line and samples of reversed harp glissandos and children laughing.

 

My wife said the director might like to hear it, and have me do the score.

 

He did, so I am. So I also have "A Tisket, A Tasket" and "Frere Jaques", and I was thinking of using "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Three Blind Mice," and "Jesus Loves Me."

 

Any other suggestions?

i suggest you post the mulberry one immediately.

 

edit: it's a small world after all. throw in some machine guns n screaming at the end

I'm presuming you've seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WejQFPTG3E

  On 9/30/2009 at 5:32 AM, hahathhat said:

i suggest you post the mulberry one immediately.

 

edit: it's a small world after all. throw in some machine guns n screaming at the end

I would upload them (I have a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb and A Tisket, A Tasket with Frere Jaques), but after I uploaded those big-ass photos of that voodoo truck, I am .44MB away from maxing my uploads, and I haven't figured out how to dump it.

 

I'm not sure if I can use It's a Small World . . . unless the melody is public domain.

 

chenGOD: I hadn't seen that! It's not quite what I meant by Cirque du Soleil (there are no acrobatics in this production) but the actors use their bodies to create furniture, set pieces, props etc. That kind of artsy actors thing.

FIXED IT!

 

Here's what I've got so far:

 

 

 

That's a compliment . . . right?

 

Right?

When there's a mod available, could they please move this to EKT, where I should have posted it in the first place? Sorry, thanks.

I've been experimenting with ways to emulate tape age/distortion in Reason, and these tracks are pretty much the showcase of what I've learned.

 

Mary Had a Little Trip turned out way more TCH-oriented than I thought it would, actually. I intended to make it with piano only, and changed my mind at the last second.

Purists or not, I can't afford the instruments, recording equipment, or time to do it properly. I have six weeks' time to come up with an indeterminate amount of music, and most of these nursery rhymes are between two and eight measures long before they have to be repeated.

 

I don't even have a midi keyboard, which means a lot of click and drag.

  On 9/30/2009 at 12:43 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

in that case i'd say go for wow and flutter

here if you don't have it yet. The only problem with it is that if you want to get the intended subtle tape drift effect, you have to set the level REALLY low, even when the slider is halfway the amount of warble is fuckin extreme.

I think I'll be okay without that, but thank you (I also wouldn't know the first thing about how to plug it into Reason and use it).

  On 9/30/2009 at 2:16 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

oh yeah you're using reason. probably not worth the effort trying to rewire it then.

Oh, I don't have Rewire, either. Just Reason's basic library and some ReFills.

I'm really liking what you've posted so far.

It would be great if you could maybe share the entire score when you're done...

Good luck!

I'll definitely post more. I have a pretty good idea about what I want to happen when Alice drinks the bottle (and I think the forum would appreciate it). I also have to find a copy of "Everything You Do Is a Balloon," because the script has a moment where Alice is being blown up to a size where she can get the key, and they call her the "balloon princess." :dirty thoughts:

 

Anyway, I thought the beginning portion would go nicely.

Edited October 1, 2009 by OneToThirtySix

  On 9/30/2009 at 9:21 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

FIXED IT!

 

Here's what I've got so far:

 

 

 

 

no mulberry?? and that's the only one i asked for

  On 10/1/2009 at 8:06 AM, hahathhat said:

no mulberry?? and that's the only one i asked for

Do you know the lyrics?

i only know patterns of sounds

  On 10/1/2009 at 8:13 AM, hahathhat said:

i only know patterns of sounds

Well, I titled it "So Early In the Morning" because the concept was to blur the line between being awake and still being asleep, trapped in some nightmare.

 

Anyway, I have to work tonight on the "Drink Me" track and create a beat for the Momerath Rap.

Edited October 1, 2009 by OneToThirtySix

have you seen the alice remixed video? it apprently uses sounds only from the movie

 

 

you might have seen it because it's kind of old

 

also here's another version just in case you happen to be on acid: http://yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=36&cols=36&id=pAwR6w2TgxY&startZoom=1

Hmmm . . . maybe I ought to scour youtube for some ideas. That sampled Disney track is pretty cool.

Hokay, I need a couple suggestions for stripper music (40's style, like with a nasty brass section and shit), and I have no clue where to begin.

 

Side-note; I'm going to try to work the Alvin & the Chipmunks version of "Short People" into the soundtrack.

  On 10/2/2009 at 7:47 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

Hokay, I need a couple suggestions for stripper music (40's style, like with a nasty brass section and shit), and I have no clue where to begin.

 

Watch "Planet Terror". If that doesn't inspire the mood i dunno wat will.

  On 10/2/2009 at 7:55 AM, sneaksta303 said:

Watch "Planet Terror". If that doesn't inspire the mood i dunno wat will.

Haha! I was hoping someone would know an actual song name, though, especially of the one that goes "brraa-dun-dun-da-da," and so forth.

  On 10/2/2009 at 8:02 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

  On 10/2/2009 at 7:55 AM, sneaksta303 said:

Watch "Planet Terror". If that doesn't inspire the mood i dunno wat will.

Haha! I was hoping someone would know an actual song name, though, especially of the one that goes "brraa-dun-dun-da-da," and so forth.

 

I think Robert Rodriguez composed it. He's quite a good song-smith if u ask me. he did MOST of Kill Bill 2 also. Some of sin city. Desperado....

  On 10/2/2009 at 8:50 AM, sneaksta303 said:

 

I think Robert Rodriguez composed it. He's quite a good song-smith if u ask me. he did MOST of Kill Bill 2 also. Some of sin city. Desperado....

If I remember correctly, Rodriguez wanted to do some songs for Vol 2, but Tarentino only had room for one (or maybe two), but I do know he composed that Mariachi style piece at the very end of the movie.

  On 10/2/2009 at 9:03 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

  On 10/2/2009 at 8:50 AM, sneaksta303 said:

 

I think Robert Rodriguez composed it. He's quite a good song-smith if u ask me. he did MOST of Kill Bill 2 also. Some of sin city. Desperado....

If I remember correctly, Rodriguez wanted to do some songs for Vol 2, but Tarentino only had room for one (or maybe two), but I do know he composed that Mariachi style piece at the very end of the movie.

 

Did u listen to the commentary? He did prob 80% of part 2. The RZA did a lot of part 1.