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quotStorming New Capricaquot from BSG Taiko performance
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Battlestar Galactica is a show driven by three main things: good writing, talented acting, and lots of percussion. As a fan, I've recorded many piano arrangements of the soundtrack to BSG, but let's be honest: it takes a good taiko drum to do the music justice. • Well, thanks to the excellent taiko program at Swarthmore College, an opportunity finally came my way! Two other students and I, in consultation with a professor of dance, worked very hard over the course of a semester to study, arrange, and rehearse Bear McCreary's score. The piece we perform here is called Storming New Caprica, and it accompanies one of the most memorable action sequences in Season 3 -- in fact, in the entire show. • Bear himself remarks: • Knowing that a big battle episode was on the horizon, I spent the early part of last summer researching traditional Chinese and Japanese music... I virtually discarded all of the rhythmic ideas that I had developed up to this point in favor of a more frantic and energetic taiko sound... The result is, in my admittedly biased opinion, the most kick-ass action cue I've ever written... However, out of dramatic necessity, Daniel Colman's outstanding sound design elements take the foreground for the majority of the battle scenes. But the drums are there, helping to propel the action forward... • (http://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/blo...) • I say: time to put the drums in the foreground and give Bear's traditional taiko rhythms the authentic treatment they deserve! In its truest form, taiko is about dance and movement just as much as it is about music and rhythm. By choreographing our piece, then setting that choreography against scenes from the show, we hope both to elucidate the role of music in Battlestar and to underscore the power of Bear's composition in multiple artistic media (dance and television). • Enjoy!
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