Topic: The United Video Game Symphony: Kickstarter

[Chernabogue]

I'm part of a new and important project led by Thomas Kresge. He plans to create a new orchestra concert of VGM where everyone can decide which tracks will be arranged and played live! So yeah, that'd mean we could have some great CV tracks played there!

This is a very cool opportunity, and I'd love to see the project come to life, as I would arrange one or more tracks for the concert, which is one of my dreams! (And if I could arrange a CV track, I'd just be the happiest musician on Earth ^^)

I'll just drop his message here, and I hope you'll find the project interesting.

KICKSTARTER LINK

My name is Thomas Kresge and I am the project manager behind a new orchestral video game concert known as the United Video Game Symphony. If you're familiar with organizations like Video Games Live or Distant Worlds, then you have a general idea of what we're about; we are a symphonic concert that performs orchestral arrangements of video game music.

The difference between the UVGS and other orchestral game music concerts is in the way our program is decided. The concert program is decided entirely by the community through a voting system. In this way we plan on being a community-driven production.

So, fans (you guys) select the music you want us to perform, and our team of arrangers will create the arrangements that will be performed by the full symphony orchestra. Our arrangers come from a variety of communities, and include:

        Michael Birch "Flexstyle" (13x OC ReMix contributor and 8x OCR album contributor)
        Alexandre Mourey "Chernabogue" (director of Vampire Variations and OC ReMix contributor)
        Joe Zieja "XPRTNovice" (Balance and Ruin artist, OC ReMix contributor)
        Callum Kennedy "Tuberz McGee"
        Alexander Rosetti (MS Paint Adventures)
        Curtis Schweitzer (Composer, Starbound)
        Clark Powell "Plazmataz" (MS Paint Adventures)
        Will Pisani "Light_of_Aether" (Metroid Reorchestrated)
        Andrew Huo (MS Paint Adventures)
        Peter M. Crockett "Moseph" (Composer, OC ReMix contributor)
        Greg Nourse "Gario" (OCReMix contributor, also featured on their most recent album)
        Robert J! Lake "spellmynamewithabang" (MS Paint Adventures)
        Jeremy Iamurri "Solatrus" (MS Paint Adventures)
        Blake Robinson (Synthetic Orchestra: Banjo-Kazooie Symphony, Chrono Trigger Symphony)
        Tyler Dever (MS Paint Adventures)

We have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the UVGS, and we're looking for your support! We will also record and live stream the performance, and will later distribute the recording.

A link to the Kickstarter can be found here. I hope this project interests many of you, and I believe it will provide a fantastic service to the video game music community. Our arrangers are fans just like you guys, which helps create a very unique concert that is driven by the community.

Thank you for taking the time to read this! I hope to see the UVGS come to fruition!

[Intersection]

It seems like a great idea, although I'm not entirely sure how well this project could eventually be organized. It'll have to be very efficiently put together, and in a relatively short amount of time, if it manages to reach its goal.

But it's definitely a very interesting initiative, and it has all my support if you'll be participating in it. I'll certainly be expecting a CV track if the project ends up making it on to stage.

Incidentally, how long is the voting process supposed to take? You can't be expected to come up with a decent arrangement under too short a deadline.

[Chernabogue]

Incidentally, how long is the voting process supposed to take? You can't be expected to come up with a decent arrangement under too short a deadline.

I don't really know how many time it'll take, I can ask the project manager.

And yes, people can write really good arrangement in no time The approximate deadline is very good for all the musicians on the project.

[Ratty]

Bloody Tears, Frog's Theme and Gerudo Valley. If there's a formal ballot, put these on it. 

PS- But really this is a great project to see come around, good luck with it