pinball1970 said:
Wow, the violin version!! Amazing. Control of the harmonics just sounds crazy.
I suppose it's bread and butter to good violinist but sounds nuts to me.
EDIT. 4.32 For instance, that tone! It just comes out of nowhere. Stunning.
Pretty cool he messaged her, what a compliment.
That is very nice. As far as rock violin goes I like this. It's like getting behind the wheel of a Gran Torino, putting the petal to metal, and blasting through Hell whilst laughing like a demon. It makes my hair stand on end [horripilation]. Really.
Emilie Autumn - Organ grinder (Saw III)
Emilie let her violin chops slide. Too much time, too little payoff. Popular music is all about the singer and songwriter so her energy went into those instead.
Emilie grew up in Malibu. She was of interest to record companies in nearby LA but they were much too controlling. She must do everything herself. Literally. She makes truly solo records through multi-tracking. She sewed her own costumes and that of her band. It's extreme. She quit classical music, also too controlling. She was in Hole(!) for a while, possibly the greatest mismatch in the history of music. Then went her own way to work her way up via the club circuit. No one makes it that way any more but I thought, if anyone can do it, Emilie can. She couldn't. Success on the club circuit but no more than that. The club circuit is a grind, you can only do it for so long then it's up or out. Emilie got out. I think the problem is that radio long ago went corporate. If you don't pony up the big bucks then you won't get on no matter how good you are. It's against the law but that's meaningless in the rules based order.
Emilie's first love is musicals. She has written one which I think contains some of the most beautiful music ever made. She announced it would be produced in London's West End, but it never happened. I think it would have been a success but something gave way before it made the stage. Maybe she couldn't share control with other actors or any director. Maybe the financial backers chickened out. As a side note, a side plot involved a deliberately engineered pandemic, this in 2012 or so.
Possibly the problem was she first performed the musical in nightclubs. It was much too heavy for that, appalling the audience who was there to have fun. Her model is horror movies, not my thing at all but I make a big exception in the case of Emilie. She acted in a small time horror film, back in real life married the leading man, and appears since to have retired from music. There's a lot more to the story, but that's enough for now. I am and shall forever remain a big fan, but if she's happy in married life then good for her.
So, what is this music I claim so beautiful? Here you go. I don't know who did the recording engineering but they deserve a Nobel Prize. Oh, they don't give a prize for that? Maybe they should.
Or how about this one. I bet that every sound is EA. That entrance of the orchestra is SO ominous, so quiet and brooding yet as threatening as is a nuclear warhead.
