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Hi, I'm Forlando and welcome to Road to ICN.
Road to ICN is a show, where we'll take a look at the preparation for ICN 2014.
enjoy!
So we get our inspiration from both Broadway musicals or Disney's songs.
But also we try to find ideas from other kind of music,
that is remotely related to musicals such as:
Indonesian traditional music or maybe even Jazz.
usually I close my eyes and imagine,
what is the character like,
what the character want to say, what is he or she feeling,
then, I open my eyes and I hum a melody.
Usually it works, but sometimes, it doesn't works,
so I sit on a piano and play random songs,
and suddenly, I found the catchphrase.
After I found the catchphrase, everything flows slowly.
Once you get the main idea already,
then you just need to do the technical things such as arrange,
then see how many instruments we have, then see which kind of sound fits,
that's it!
The biggest challenge is definitely a time constraint.
We have at most only six months to prepare,
and most of our songs are original, so we have to ensure our performer,
perform them well, up to our standards.
So our expectation for the musicians is they can perform well,
and they enjoy every moment they are playing.
Choir can add dramatic effects in certain scenes.
Also we want to showcase the talent of our vocalists in a group setting,
also we want to showcase Indonesian traditional music in the choir form.
One of the biggest challenges is to make sure that they all are singing in the correct pitch,
even without the accompaniment of other instruments.
But since we have a lot of people in the choir,
we have to make sure that everybody sings well and blend together,
so their harmony, sounds nice.
The nature of performing in choir is different from performing in a solo,
because you have to make sure that your ego is controlled,
that you don't have the tendency to show off alone.
Because everybody in a choir shares the spotlight.
Our expectation is, of course, to see the audience entertained with our music.
And if we find somebody, after the show, hum our song,
we will be very happy. Yeah!
We've come to the end of our show.
I'm Forlando, thanks for watching,
and see you at the next episode of road to ICN.