Stravinsky Petrushka - Tomita style by Paul Shillito

By Paul Shillito www.classitronic.net
Stravinsky's Petrushka done electronically in an Isao Tomita style.

This is a selection of highlights from the full piece which will be part of a CD to be released in 2011. The full version of Petrushka is over 22 minutes long but this gives you a good idea of the contents & sounds in 5 and a half mins.

The following equipment was used to make it : Arturia Origin, Creamware Pro12 ASB, Creamware Prodyssey ASB, Roland V-Synth GT, Analogue Modular, EHX Cathedral, Eventide Modfactor, Eventide PitchFactor, EHX Small Stone Phaser, Line 6 M13, Cubase Studio 5.5 running on Win 7/64 .

Hope you enjoy it, please rate, comment and subscribe :-)

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• stravinsky
• petrushka
• yuja
• wang
• paul
• shillito
• classitronic
• isao
• tomita
• electronic
• classical
• music
• synthesizer
• electronica

[blaqsparrow]

The midi is well programmed, but the timbre of most of those virtual instruments needs to be refined. I'd expect to hear this music in the backdrop of a 1970s education film. "The Masqueraders" was the only piece that sounded like it was produced this decade -- but that one I really did like. If you want the project to sound retro, then you've achieved it, but honestly some of those voices are laughable and almost hard to listen to. Keep it up, though.

[paulshillitomusic]

@blaqsparrow Thanks for the comments, Well I have achieved my aim :-), this was meant to sound circa mid 70's with lots of analogue FM effects, synth brass and spring verb ala Tomita complete with odd voices, have a listen to Tomita's early works from that time and you'll hear them, if i were to do this in a contemporary style it would sound quite different again

[loren108]

wow!

just curious if you used midi sequencing to make this, and also your source of visuals, they compliment the audio nicely!

also really enjoying the timbral variety and the spatial mixing

Loren

[paulshillitomusic]

@loren108 Yes, it the whole piece is midi sequenced but it I tweaked extensively to try and give a more human feel, the graphics were produced using a winamp Mikdrop plugin and then recorded using FRAPS and re-edited in Premier Pro, Glad you like it :-)

[MrRaph87]

Hello!! To tell the truth, I prefer the traditional version... But it's a very beautiful version, too!!

Even if my ears prefer to hear Stravinsky written and thought for the orchestra...

beau travail, mon cher !!

[paulshillitomusic]

@MrRaph87 Thankyou for you comments and I respect you views as not everyone is going to agree with what I do with famous pieces but just as Stravinsky himself broke way from traditional composition with some of his works, I and some others try to show these in a different light with non traditional instrumentation and although I say so myself the results can be quite striking. I was introduced to the Classics by Tomita and I still think that his electronic versions work as well as the originals.

[saxon954]

Thanks for your e-mail Paul. I have listened to Petrushka as you suggested and as you say it is a vast improvement on Karalia but can i make a further suggestion? Keep the bass down a bit and experiment more with tonal qualities. I don't think it was a co-incidence that Tomita chose composers whose works were in the tone poem genre because they literally painted pictures with their music .

Perhaps sometime in the future you could have a look at the music of Delius.

[NINJATRONdnb]

cool video!! nice effects

[BAZHE]

beasutiful 

[reitoe]

Cool.

[runnermonkey]

Excellent work

[rattrap551]

These works are a fantastic blend of homage and originality! To start, it is refreshing to hear some of these sounds outside the context of club electronica, or anything our 21st century ears are used to