FMF2014: Hans Zimmer — Inception Suite

Hans Zimmer — Inception Suite

Hans Zimmer — piano
Czarina Russel — voice
Aleksander Milwiw-Baron — electric guitar
Tristan Schulze — electric cello

Beethoven Academy Orchestra
Diego Navarro — conductor

[needham]

As a trombonist, if I were in this show, my will to live would be collapsing.

[mananshah]

Truly Hans Zimmer is the greatest Music Director in the industry. All his scores send shivers down my spine. The music is so connectable. <3

[matysiak]

Muzycy spisali się na medal. Byli rewelacyjni. Należy dodać, iż orkiestra miała potężny podkład muzyki elektronicznej, nadającej całości niesamowitej mocy. Nagranie bardziej uwypukliło samą scenę, więc wydaje się, iż momentami brakuje synchronizacji. To jednak złudzenie. Film nie oddaje zupełnie tego, jak to wszystko razem niesamowicie brzmiało. Ocynkownia dosłownie drżała w posadach. Aż żal, że zrezygnowano z koncertów w tym wspaniałym akustycznie miejscu.
To było fantastyczne, epickie doświadczenie.

Organizatorom FMF oddaję swe ukłony.

[martynamaja]

AMAZING!!! Świat nie istnieje, kiedy to się ogląda, wsłuchuje i czuje... to jest jedna z najpiękniejszych definicji muzyki jaką widziałam!

[zaggojhon]

At the precise moment of 0:59 zimmer look at the brass section, they were suposed to start, but they were a beat off from the sample.

[composergabe]

Let me help clarify some things I see a lot of you guys are confused. As many of you have pointed out this is a far from perfect performance (there is no such thing as a perfect live performance) with many complications on the side of the production which I will describe below.

That being said there are things that are being classified as a "mistake" when they are not (what is a mistake anyways? remember this is art)

1. Production: First of all a "Suite" is sort of a Collage of themes played concert style of music initially intented to be heard to support some other performance art such as a ballet or opera. (think of the nutcracker suite) so this is an ORIGINAL arrangement that Hans wrote for this performance. It is complicated because there is MANY people involved AND computer sounds, this creates a little bit of a nightmare for it to be recorded (it usually turns out like a recording of a recording) this accounts for the difficulty in getting levels right and for some of the synchronization problems.

2. Although the singer is minutely under pitch sometimes (I really dont think most people would be able to tell) it is her LEVELS that are perhaps too hot and so she sounds louder than she should be. I imagine Hans either could not get the rights for the original recording (of the song originally song by French Singer Edid Piaf) OR he decided to just do it live.

So when the first iteration of the "Time" theme happens and the singer sings her part people think this is "terrible" but besides her level and that is not a minutiously audio engineered and tuned the singer is right on, what you are hearing that is so "wrong" is that the singer is in a different key than the rest of the piece (because she is supposed to lol ) Just for fun, put this into Youtube and listen to it and let me know what you all think "Pierre Lunaire" by Arnold Shoenberg (free atonality I believe that is form the year 1919 or 1921)

Most people have not heard of bitonal or polytonal structures (which is what Hans uses here) much less Atonal ones.

IN CONCLUSION. The reason why someone of you might be "dissapointed" (pun intended with the movie! LOL) It is because you guys have probably listened to the SUPER produced, highly polished, recorded piece by piece, engineered in even smaller chunks, edited and re edited, mixed and mastered etc MANY times so you have this version of what it is "Supposed" to listen to (there are actually many other inconsistencies that were not picked up by anybody here in the comment section, let me know if you all find them) but that is not the PURPOSE of art. You can like something more or less (the guitarist was understandably inconsistent because guitarists never play with conductors, his time is not bad it is just that the conductors time fluctuates because thats what he wanted) All in all is a live performance like many, writing this was fun now back to work for me haha.

[callaham]

16:34 Zimmer: Mmm Where am I?!! Ok I'm gonna play these notes....
16:36 ZImmer: Ok no.. ok

[vengadorsky]

HAha Hanz standing up after the performance, his face is like "Well shit, glad this is over"

[gibson]

11:57 the conductor was one beat late off the track so the percussionist started one beat behind. Seems like most of the orchestra was following the conductor and the percussionist. Looked like Hans Zimmer and the guitarist had in-ear monitors and was following the track. The track had that heavy, reverb drum beat that came in at 11:57. The guitarist probably didn't know who the hell to follow and was like wtf lol. Who knows who's fault it was. The track could have started a beat early. I've played large production shows where the track had deviated off a beat. Its a nightmare. Usually the solution is to cut the track and let the musicians play the rest of section alone or to get back on the track... assuming everyone has in-ears and can even hear the track.

[artyzach]

My ears are bleeding from the utter shipwreck of a performance of one of the best movie soundtracks ever written... Poor Zimmer having to experience all that in this performance... he was trying his best to salvage all the mis-synced parts with just a piano when even the conductor of the orchestra was incompetent in getting his orchestra sections to follow.

[LexvanDijk]

"Where does this conductor strike the first beat?" His tempo indication is all over the place. Can't blame the musicians.

[FifthAbounding]

At 3:24 hans Zimmer starts covering the collapsed concert with the piano... Just so they don't sound more bad 😂😂

[MikeJunior]

Many have said it below, but DAMN that guitarist is OFF almost all of the time.

[MarcvdMeulen]

Definitely one of my favourite film scores. Wish they could have recreated the guitar sound from the film a bit better, sounds less distorted in the film (not commenting on his performance, just the guitar tone), otherwise really nice!

[samh.]

At 22:10 Han knows they were terrible and hates the guy so he pushes him away and doesn't even touch him. This is just sad for the masterpiece.

[danielpoole]

The difference Johnny Marr and Satnam Ramgotra make in that liver performance says it all.

[yvindvenas]

11:57 : The conductor gives the drummer 4 beats, and the drummer starts on the 1, but the percussion sample starts on 4. beat of the conductor so the rythm-sample is constantly 1 beat ahead the orchestra.
I guess the guitarist is a bit disoriented by two different rythms to deal whit. No excuse for the singer though.

[FifthAbounding]

3:12 i think even zimmer wasn't quite confident about this tempo changing part, so he skipped it

[ЮрийЮрий-цт]

Величайшее творение, просто дух захватывает!

[RexMcMonkey]

I swear at each transition it takes about 4 measures for the strings and winds to match up what they're playing.