Musical artists often want to perform next to the people who inspired them to become a singer. This goal is easily achieved when the legend or source of inspiration is alive, but what happens when they have long since passed?
(prHWY.com) March 28, 2012 - Seattle, WA -- Musical artists often want to perform next to the people who inspired them to become a singer. This goal is easily achieved when the legend or source of inspiration is alive, but what happens when they have long since passed? A group of music production schools in Florida have collaborated together to solve that problem.
"The ultimate goal in the music world is to be able to play right next to the person who inspired you to become an artist," said Joe Mollow. "That goal is really easy when it is someone like Pink or Britney Spears, but what happens when it was someone like Bach, Beethoven, or Frank Sinatra. It's not like we can raise them from the dead to perform with these people."
Three music production schools were involved - The Performing and Recording Academy in Orlando, Pump Up the Jam in Orlando, and Clear as Day in Sarasota. The music production schools have worked around the clock to develop a track that is similar to what some of the legends would have played. The local recording artist will learn their part, and record it onto a track. That track is then electronically combined with that of the legends, and the final product is a collaborative effort between the legend and a local recording artist.
"It isn't the same," said local singing sensation, Penny Thorton. "I would have loved to have sung a duet with Frank Sinatra, but it won't ever happen. This is the next best thing, and it really felt like I was singing with Old Blue-Eyes himself."
Students at the Performing and Recording Academy in Orlando, spent 8 hours a day, six days a week, researching musical tracks that were recorded by the legends themselves. They cleaned up the track, worked to speed it up or slow it down, and spent time transferring it into a format that could be used by modern technology.
"The hardest part was the research," said Jim Tint. "We spent hours digging through old albums, searching spooky storage bins, and just trying to find the old recordings we needed. It was so intense a few students did a séance to ask the legends where the recordings were located."
The three
recording production schools have created over 25 tracks that can be used to create recordings with current artists. The schools hope to continue to search for original recordings and create a library of over 100 titles by the end of the year.
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