Hi Fellow Music Fans.
This blog posting has a very specific message: We need
your vote now!
To continue bringing great orchestral music to the concert hall, we are competing
for a $250K "Small Business Grant" from Chase Bank. We have a
little over a week to secure 250 votes for our company, Twelve O'clock Arts, in
order to progress to the next round of the competition.
If you already know and love Eimear's work for Blizzard, Zelda,
her classical, film and video game concerts, go directly to this link and vote
now!
The rest of this
blog will be dedicated to describing just a taste of what we have planned
for the upcoming year.
Onstage with the Pittsburgh Symphony-
Photo by Derek Brad
Our Goal:
Exposing New Audiences to the Symphony Through Multimedia, Video Game and
Film Music.
You may know
Eimear Noone from her video game music concerts, but these are only the latest
adventures in a long musical journey. Eimear Noone (and her partners at
Twelve o'clock Arts) have spent a lifetime dedicated to performing and
promoting orchestral music of all kinds!
A conductor
since the age of 15, by age of 21, Eimear had co-founded her own ensemble,
"The Dublin City Concert Orchestra." With nothing except a
sheer force of will, she sold out a series of concerts at Dublin's National
Concert Hall that were dedicated to performing film scores as well as classic
repertoire that was used in this films. Although much more common now, an
orchestral concert dedicated to "film music" was unheard of within
the classical establishment at the time.
Flash
forward to the past few years where now hundreds of thousands of fans have seen
Eimear onstage conducting video game music at venue such as The Sydney Opera House,
Madison Square Garden, and The Greek Theater (To name but a few).
Likewise, she's lead countless venerable ensembles such as the Sydney,
Dallas, Baltimore, Colorado, Pacific and Houston Symphonies; The Philadelphia
Orchestra, and The Royal Philharmonic.
Those who
have attended these concerts know, the music from these video games are bold,
brash and every bit as dynamic as the traditional repertoire. They are the
classical music of our day.
Most
importantly however, at a time when orchestras are struggling to find a
sustainable audience, these concerts of video game music regularly sell out.
And what do
the symphony managers ask Eimear at these video game music concerts, when they
see full houses treating their orchestras like rock stars? They ask,
"How do we get this audience back to the concert hall to hear the
classics?"
This is
where our new adventure begins.
Our New Project!:
Bringing Video Game Music, Stunning Visuals, and Classic
Repertoire Together in One Multimedia Celebration.
At Twelve
O'clock Arts we love all types of orchestral music, regardless of the origin.
It can be a game score written last week or a symphony from the 1800's -
to us they are all pure magic.
Our key
motivation is the desire to share any and all of these in a setting that
resembles the multi-media extravaganzas that our audiences have come to expect
from Eimear: Beautiful moving images, synchronized to every beat and
phrase of the music - as only her expert conducting can allow. If it's
the score from a movie, every moment is synchronized to the composer's intent
for the film. Likewise a game score.
This is how we are used to seeing video game concerts -
but we want to take this to a new level!
Photo by Derek Brad
What if we
could take all of this talent one step further? What if we could bring
all the wonderful multimedia technology available from Broadway, rock concerts,
and the movies to the concert stage? Imagine a 3D enveloping experiences,
dancing dragon holograms and more, all interacting with Eimear and the
orchestra. That's what we have planned!
To execute
this vision we have teamed up with Tony Award winning producer, David L. Garfinkle, who's Broadway productions of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," Ghost"
and "Spiderman"
have already rewritten the rules for what can be presented on a stage.
We've
also teamed up with some yet to be announced top game composers and game
companies - you will absolutely know them!
Together,
our team is going to rewrite the rules of what you can do with the orchestra!
At the core
of all of this, though, is the same excellence of symphonic performance that
the audience has come to expect whenever Eimear takes the stage. There
will be your favorite video game scores, performed to picture, but also, video
interpretations of some of the great classics that influenced the video game
scores. We are not quite ready to release all the secrets we have
planned, except to say the fans will not be disappointed!
But we can't
do any of this without your help!
We need your vote for "Twelve
O'clock Arts! Please click on the link below and vote now! Help us
get to the next level!
