Nebethetpet Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Hello OCRemix, I've been a HUGE fan of this site for years so I figured this would be a good place to start looking for a project idea I've been mulling over. I was thinking a collaboration between a musician/remixer or two with a dancer would be awesome fun. To give a little about me, I've been a student of belly dance for 4 years and have just begun performing. On a scale of 1-10 most people say I'm about a 7 as far as technique and I'm constantly trying to improve. I've been trained in using finger cymbals, veil, cane, and sword. I'm also an avid gamer and have been listening to VG music since I was a wee tyke (back in the good ol' NES days). I thought combining these would be fun and an interesting take on both game music and belly dance. What I'm figuring is this would be a performance collaboration in that we'd do shows and conventions of all sorts. This would give me interesting stuff to dance to in front of an audience and would give you an entertainer for live shows. Not that you can't look awesome in front of a computer/keyboard, but how much cooler if you had a dancer? Anyway, enough rambling. Is anyone even interested in such an idea? Or is this just a silly dream? ~Nebethetpet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skrypnyk Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 soooooooo I'm just gonna go ahead and ask for some examples of your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebethetpet Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 Post me some middle eastern game music you've done I can dance to and I will. I'm actually doing this for reals. This is not lotion and tissue material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Moved to recruit and collab. Not really offtopic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skrypnyk Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 are you restricting yourself to just middle eastern game music? I'm sure you are serious about this but unless people can see examples of what you've done, then I dunno how far you're gonna get. I for one don't know what a 7 out of 10 is. I dunno what dancing with a sword looks like. etc. etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 are you restricting yourself to just middle eastern game music? I'm sure you are serious about this but unless people can see examples of what you've done, then I dunno how far you're gonna get. I for one don't know what a 7 out of 10 is. I dunno what dancing with a sword looks like. etc. etc. Skrypnyk is right. Show us your moves! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonamer Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 How about something like this: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02028/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebethetpet Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 I'll have to get some footage of myself if you are interested, however, as you could see, I'm hesitant to just put it up first. Here is an example of a 10 particularly in the style I'm trained (11 if you're going by SpinalTap standards): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-f9QpKoCr0 A sword dance is hip movements with balancing a sword on your head. finger cymbals are like this: I can't play them that fast but I can perform all the body movements she does with ease. I'm not restricting myself to middle eastern music as I know the only real examples I can think of are the Prince of Persia series, which does have some pretty awesome music (Particularly the gamecube/ps2 one). I've mulled over some FF: Crystal chronicles, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country, and others. I'd need someone with good mixing capabilities and a good ear to be able to make them all more danceable and interesting (aka not as repetitive) as well as help me with ideas with songs, and if this goes well, for dances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebethetpet Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 Nonamer: That has a nice feel to it, but the beats are a little fast. I'd have a hard time keeping up with the music. Most belly dance music is very heavily beat oriented, with lots of intricate rhythm changes to keep the dancer on her toes (not necessarily struggling though). I think it may be a interesting challenge for someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannthr Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 What I'm gathering from your offer is that you're looking to utilize music created by someone else to enhance your routine with the promise that our music would be cooler because someone is dancing to it... is that correct? If you're suggesting that your dancing to our music would provide any benefit to us, then yeah, I think we would need evidence that your dance is that good--after all, you're issuing a request for a "collaboration" without providing us with any actual information about what you bring to the table outside of videos of OTHER people dancing (which is just silly). It's like a musician asking for a music backing track claiming that having a live musician on our track would be beneficial to us--which is potentially true, assuming the musician is worth their salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebethetpet Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 What I'm gathering from your offer is that you're looking to utilize music created by someone else to enhance your routine with the promise that our music would be cooler because someone is dancing to it... is that correct?If you're suggesting that your dancing to our music would provide any benefit to us, then yeah, I think we would need evidence that your dance is that good--after all, you're issuing a request for a "collaboration" without providing us with any actual information about what you bring to the table outside of videos of OTHER people dancing (which is just silly). It's like a musician asking for a music backing track claiming that having a live musician on our track would be beneficial to us--which is potentially true, assuming the musician is worth their salt. You're getting ahead of what I initially asked. I was seeing if anyone was interested in even the idea. If there is even interest by VG musicians, then yes, I can provide reference. I was trying to make this a professional start. This dance form can be sometimes construed as provocative, I wasn't taking my chances. Besides, all the benefit would eventually be in favor of the musician(s) since they would be the ones getting recognition and even potential music purchases out of it. In the end, all I get to do is dance. I'm not asking for just the music, I'm asking for shows with them performing their work alongside me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 If people are not going to express interest or ask questions in a respectful way, they should not post. Carry on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 I just keep hearing over those examples. I'm on the wrong side of the pond and don't have live shows, but I think it's an interesting opportunity. Why not just do what this guy did and dance, tape it, put it on the net, and see what that'll lead to? It'll at least let ppl see what you can actually do, and you'll have to dance eventually if you wanna collab. (btw, this is technically a "skill x available" thread, but it's a far cry from the "hai guys composur availablz" so idc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Mokram Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Post me some middle eastern game music you've done I can dance to and I will. http://vimeo.com/26786498 Let's see what you got Stuart Little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 (btw, this is technically a "skill x available" thread, but it's a far cry from the "hai guys composur availablz" so idc) It's fine because she's looking for something specific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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