does this kind of thing exist?

[Ando!]

I was listening to echoes awhile ago and they happened to do an episode on ambient chamber music, so I know that there's people out there blending classical composition with synthetic soundscapes

but what I'm looking for is an 'electronic orchestra' or something performing renditions of more well-knows pieces classical music. I want to hear Dvorak played with synths, or a midi-mapped mozart, or something like that.

anyone know?

[Ando!]

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[DFelon204409]

It seems like pure Dvorak on synths is best achieved by video game composers. A lot of Early Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu is midi classical stuff. They are both highly enjoyable composers if you ask me. I know a lot of composers use synth and other electronic sounds in their compositions.

Frank Zappa did a few "classical" albums using a synthesized instrument called the synclavier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa#The_Synclavier

Paul Lansky is one of the pre-eminent electronic/classical composers. You'll recognize a reversed sample from his track "Mild und Leise" as the foundation for Radiohead's "Idioteque" off of Kid A.

Richard Teitelbaum has composed pieces for moog synthesizers and shakuhachi (Japanese flutes) called "Blends." I actually attended a lecture where he talked about the composition process for this song. The sheet music is pretty wild and leaves a lot up to intelligent improvisation by all players.

Of course these examples are all just random things off of the top of my head. There are surely more. Just do some research.

[halfdeadhippo]

Two things come to mind. Rick Wakeman arranged the third movement of Brahms' 4th for various synthesizers on the Yes album Fragile. The other is that version of the Turkish march from Beethoven's 9th that was in A Clockwork Orange. Perhaps more could be found by looking into those.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzOJZWZJdA The Beethoven bit comes in at 4:45.

[Delay Pedal Boy]

Also, Yes did a cover of part of Dvorak's New World Symphony.

[SuperID]

This is kind of the reverse, but there's a fairly good chamber group out there that plays the whole Richard D James album on live instruments (Aphex Twin, for those of you who don't know R D. James)

[joshmay]

This is kind of the reverse, but there's a fairly good chamber group out there that plays the whole Richard D James album on live instruments (Aphex Twin, for those of you who don't know R D. James)

HOLY ****! what is their name?

[joshmay]

also there are sh!tty MOOGZART lps in every record crate anywhere ever.

[DFelon204409]

HOLY ****! what is their name?

This is not what he's talking about but it's pretty sick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfr_kHkuqk

[Delay Pedal Boy]

Here y'are, Joshmay..unless you've found it already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustica:_Alarm_Will_Sound_performs_Aphex_Twin

[joshmay]

wow...i didnt think it would translate that well. sick ****!

[SuperID]

Yes boss. Quite chamber-y