Hoedown

[mixedgas]

Anyone know the exact music track for Hoedown on the
Pango Cloud? I have a Michael Tilson Thomas track that comes close on the timing but is a bit short at the end.
I love Aaron Copeland's music.

Steve

[buffo]

+1 for Aaron Copeland! Hoedown is one of my favorite pieces, although Fanfare for the Common Man also gives me goosebumps.

Regarding the show you have, if it was created a long time ago it might not be synchronized to a classical recording at all. Someone (not sure who) programmed a Hoedown beam show using Showtime on the QM2000, but the audio track they used was from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. (Actual audible portion of the track should be about 3 min, 41 seconds.)

If you are certain that the show was originally choreographed to an orchestral version of the song, then you might want to try stretching either the audio track length or the show track length to see if you can get things to line up better. (This is only a good idea if everything starts out in sync and slowly drifts out of sync, suggesting that the run times aren't that far apart.)

Hoedown in particular is a difficult piece to nail down when it comes to timing, because every conductor seems to want to play it either too fast or too slow. (Just listen to some of the recordings posted to YouTube and you'll see what I mean!) The long pause in the middle as the horns die away is another source of variability regarding the length of the entire track, although with some creative editing in Audacity you can probably correct for at least a little "improvisation" on the part of the conductor.

Adam

[mixedgas]

You might have just nailed it. Just bought the ELP track on Amazon.

I'll let you know.

Steve

[Greg]

I found this version of Hoedown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yp-VpCpogg
WOW what an incredibly choreographed number.

[laserist]

I wonder who is nwlaser?

[absolom7691]

I found this version of Hoedown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yp-VpCpogg
WOW what an incredibly choreographed number.

Not sure who NWLaser is that posted it but I do believe that show was choreographed by Mike Dunn on Pangolin Showtime.

[laserist]

It's got a very Laserium look. I didn't notice the whole multiplexed image thing...

[laserist]

And it felt edited, not performed. A *really* good laserist could have gotten there with a Mark 6, but would have needed iterative control of the data track. Laserium never developed that. Maybe in a different timeline someone did that instead of DRS.

[Greg]

Good points. After a second look, it does feel edited.

[absolom7691]

Definitely a canned show. I have that same show for my QM2000.