09-29-2021, 01:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2021, 10:10 AM by Tesla. Edited 2 times in total.)
Feel free to skip to the bottom for the good stuff...the closer video. Hats off to any of my DCI addicts that can guess the corps and year of the audio.
I was having some trouble sleeping tonight and in my thoughts I recollected my drum corps days with the Hawthorne Caballeros and out of the deepest part of my brain recalled “Micro Marching” which alot of members used to fiddle around with and I decided to make up a short vid of a closer that I just whipped up.
The Otter Band is proud to present their Season 31 show entitled “The Jungle”
Where we visit various jungles and natural ecosystems, “Run” starts as part one of a three-year song cycle; followed the next two years with "A Celebration of Oil Tanking" and "Orange Justice." The show was created with a sense of concern for environmental preservation.
Trumpeter Blas Cogeem's "Begin Sweet World" commences the show with a lovely, atmospheric ode from an album of gentle, reflective music. The brass players, as particles of matter scattered around the milky-way, form a tight, planet-like ball during the percussion melody, which is duplicated with the high brass.
This quickly moves into "(The Beauty of an) Appalachian Morning". One drill formation highlight is the compression of tuba players into a faceted gemstone diamond, complete with a glint of teal-blue from a few members of the color guard.
Flags of green, white, blue and orange anticipate the four colors of the elements, which are the focus of the next selection. Corps brass arranger Matt Bake composed "The Four Elements," a haunting glimpse of the turmoil that could result if we continued to ignore the earth's message that it needed us to take better care of it.
Flags are darkened hues against black backgrounds, for a sort of post-Apocalyptic effect. At the end, nine color guard members run into the center focus with one each of the four themed silks tied together into a united mass, reminding us that all the elements are essential to the continued life of the planet.
Dabs of foliage and bird plumage colors enliven the field during First Circle's "The Rain Forest," with some bird chirps just before a drum break. The bright yellow of the flags at the end showed the sun rising on a new day of hope and promise for the environment.
Paul Paw's "Journey Under the Sun" brings the drums and horns together to form another tight ball as planet Earth moved on its way through the solar system. The members then split off into individual elements of the heavens.
The show ends with two x’s representing two choices, eXist or eXtinct.
The lasting impression is one of simple elegance—We can either destroy the planet or serve to provide it with generations of future life.
I was having some trouble sleeping tonight and in my thoughts I recollected my drum corps days with the Hawthorne Caballeros and out of the deepest part of my brain recalled “Micro Marching” which alot of members used to fiddle around with and I decided to make up a short vid of a closer that I just whipped up.
The Otter Band is proud to present their Season 31 show entitled “The Jungle”
Where we visit various jungles and natural ecosystems, “Run” starts as part one of a three-year song cycle; followed the next two years with "A Celebration of Oil Tanking" and "Orange Justice." The show was created with a sense of concern for environmental preservation.
Trumpeter Blas Cogeem's "Begin Sweet World" commences the show with a lovely, atmospheric ode from an album of gentle, reflective music. The brass players, as particles of matter scattered around the milky-way, form a tight, planet-like ball during the percussion melody, which is duplicated with the high brass.
This quickly moves into "(The Beauty of an) Appalachian Morning". One drill formation highlight is the compression of tuba players into a faceted gemstone diamond, complete with a glint of teal-blue from a few members of the color guard.
Flags of green, white, blue and orange anticipate the four colors of the elements, which are the focus of the next selection. Corps brass arranger Matt Bake composed "The Four Elements," a haunting glimpse of the turmoil that could result if we continued to ignore the earth's message that it needed us to take better care of it.
Flags are darkened hues against black backgrounds, for a sort of post-Apocalyptic effect. At the end, nine color guard members run into the center focus with one each of the four themed silks tied together into a united mass, reminding us that all the elements are essential to the continued life of the planet.
Dabs of foliage and bird plumage colors enliven the field during First Circle's "The Rain Forest," with some bird chirps just before a drum break. The bright yellow of the flags at the end showed the sun rising on a new day of hope and promise for the environment.
Paul Paw's "Journey Under the Sun" brings the drums and horns together to form another tight ball as planet Earth moved on its way through the solar system. The members then split off into individual elements of the heavens.
The show ends with two x’s representing two choices, eXist or eXtinct.
The lasting impression is one of simple elegance—We can either destroy the planet or serve to provide it with generations of future life.
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