Still Alive Orchestrated - UMGSO - Spring Concert 2008

May 13, 2008

The University of Maryland's Gamer Symphony Orchestra (UMGSO) plays "Still Alive" from Portal.

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[HerraTohtori]

You do realize that "I am disappoint" is a meme, right?

...maybe not. Oh well, that is inconsequential.

Regarding talking trash, there is a difference between critique and trash-talking. Critique is an honest, well-argued opinion either against or behalf a performance. Trash talking is just rude insults without any arguments behind the claims.

I appreciate the effort of the musicians, but the points I mentioned in my original post still stand. The orchestra was badly out of tune.

[HerraTohtori]

I am disappoint.

It hurts to say this, but this hurt my ears. The violin section of the orchestra was very, very out of tune. Rest of the orchestra were not far behind, but violin was the worst offender. As soon as the violins stopped playing, it was almost tolerable. Lead singer's performance was not something I particularly liked either, but passable considering she had to stand right next to those violins messing with everything.

I need some grief counseling. And cake.

[774CcC]

The singing girls shirt is epic

[Mad4Midna]

At 4:31 It sounds like she said "Still a lie" o_o I think the singer is great but the arrangement didn't sound anything like the original song. It's too happy, the song is supposed to be sarcastic.

[Montak545]

can i have the girl thats singing name and phone number please?

[Montak545]

the girl singing is hot

[12poulet21]

@calilola130 its a mix whit the hidden soung at the restarts of a new game

[Sp3ctre18]

Although in a sense the most important in the end result, realize that the perfomance is only part of the effort. Get some profesisonal musicians and this would be PRETTY AWESOME.

Because face it, apart from what I found to be some odd timing at the beginning...this is one FUNKY, FUN arrangement. So Kudos to whoever did it and congrats on the effort! :D

But I would love to see hear this done with better musicians. :)

[jrdennis95]

Although it's a beautiful performance, it destroys the whole meaning of the song. Why's it so happy? The SATB choir in the back is irrelevant, the joke faces are useless... The whole song bases around sarcasm, so this technically sucks (in the spirit of the game).

[calilola130]

Wtf? sounds nothing like the song?

[MorseCode4650]

BLEHHHHH, this isn't a very good arrangement. The orchestra is out of tune and the pacing feelings weird.... Despite this, it was STILL better than the Spoony Bards version.... Either way, the problem video game bands encounter with "Still Alive" is that the voice (of both Glados and the singer) are auto-tuned and modified up the shit.

[HeWhoR0cks]

wow this video sucks, they cant sing worth crap.. so take that "critique" and shove it up your, well, you know.