- Title
- Purple Haze (vocal remix)
- Creator
- Vella, Richard
- Relation
- [Live performance]. Battle of the Choirs. (Sydney 27 July, 2008)
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/community-and-alumni/arts-and-culture/echology-choir
- Publisher
- Channel 7 (Australia)
- Resource Type
- event
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This choral arrangement of Purple Haze exemplifies ‘Remix and Recontexualisation’ (R&R). Since the 1980s with the advent of sampling and accessible technologies, R&R has shifted from being one approach to music making to a dominant paradigm. While R&R has become predominant, the borrowing of music from other contexts is nothing new. This can be heard in the use of borrowed melodies in renaissance motets, Bebop jazz or actual quotation. The arrangement refers to traditional blues in the bass and tenor parts. It recontextualises the verses of Purple Haze by colliding these verses with meta-composed sections resulting with a hybrid type of motet. The original version is primarily a long guitar solo preceded and concluding with two sung verses for solo male voice. The guitar in this version is no longer foreground but provides the song’s famous accompanying Ib9-III-IV signature vamp. The deviation section (bars 32-35) functions as meta-music device and removes the expectation of the famous guitar solo placing more focus on the verses. The form of Purple Haze refers to the split choir technique made famous by the early Venetian composers around the beginning of the 17th century. In Purple Haze, there are two choirs and soloists. The University of Newcastle Chamber Choir performed the work for the semi final of Channel 7’s national broadcast competition ‘Battle of the Choirs’ (2007). This secured them a place in the grand final which they subsequently won. Included in the prize was the recording of the arrangement for Universal records, Australia.
- Subject
- Purple Haze; Jimi Hendrix; Battle of the Choirs; Newcastle Chamber Choir
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059660
- Identifier
- uon:16668
- Language
- eng
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