The Wall of Sound
Mar. 18th, 2015 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroWith the upcoming ending of Glee (which, as yesterday’s NY Magazine article noted, will have a hard time competing with the show’s half a dozen other natural stopping points), I got to thinking about what I miss about performing. And there are lots of things: I like being the center of attention, I like the chance to show off, I like the escapism, all that sort of thing.
There is a specific thing that I miss about a cappella, though; a phenomenon that I think of as the “wall of sound”. It’s when you’re in the middle of a big group of singers who are filling every note of a power chord with their voices and it just drives right through you. A lot of raw excitement and enthusiasm comes right through, and everything fits together, and for the length of that sound, you can tell everyone is just having the time of their lives.
(Jethrien doesn’t really get why I like the song “Pompeii”, but there are several a cappella covers that are clearly very good examples of this phenomenon.)
At some point, I need to get that experience in my life again.
There is a specific thing that I miss about a cappella, though; a phenomenon that I think of as the “wall of sound”. It’s when you’re in the middle of a big group of singers who are filling every note of a power chord with their voices and it just drives right through you. A lot of raw excitement and enthusiasm comes right through, and everything fits together, and for the length of that sound, you can tell everyone is just having the time of their lives.
(Jethrien doesn’t really get why I like the song “Pompeii”, but there are several a cappella covers that are clearly very good examples of this phenomenon.)
At some point, I need to get that experience in my life again.
