Hi Rupert
Sounds good, I like classical stuff
How about Carmina Burana, "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" more commonly known as O' Fortuna, by Carl Orff. It's around two and a half minutes long. You may not recognise the title, but you'll sure recognise the music, it's been used in more films than I care to remember, mainly horror .
I've just found the english translation of the Poem that was written in the thirteenth century that the music by Carl Orff represents, it is of course called O' Fortuna'. It may help to provide some inspiration for the interpretation into a laser show
O Fortune,
like the moon
The state of which changes,
always growing
or decreasing;
Detestable life
now difficult
and then easy
Deceptive sharp mind;
poverty
power
it melts them like ice.
Fate—monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
stand malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game,
my bare back
I bring to your villainy.
Fate, in health
and in virtue,
is now against me,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating string;
since through Fate
strikes down the strong,
everyone weep with me!
Oh, and here's the latin version for good measure
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
Cheers
Jem
Last edited by Jem; 10-21-2010 at 11:00.
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