Boléro

I perform Maurice Ravel's Boléro on a variety of homemade 8-bit instruments.

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Linus Akesson - Maurice Ravel - Boléro.mp3 (MP3, 26.2 MB)

Some stats and details

9 hours and 42 minutes of footage
52 mixer channels
13 neck- and bowties
9 different instruments
1 crazy automaton
0 regrets

This project took me a bit over half a year to finish.

I hope you'll enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed making it! There are many little details that I'll let you discover on your own.

It was fun to put my tools and methods to the test with this huge undertaking. When I started out I had no idea if my mixing and video-editing process would work at this scale, but it turned out to only need a few tweaks here and there.

The nine instruments are: The Qweremin (breadbin / regular C64C / dark C64C), Qwertuoso (breadbin), the Paulimba, the Tenor Commodordion, the Family Bass (albeit not as a bass this time), my still unnamed floppy-drive noise instrument (1541 / 1541-II), the C=TAR, the Chipophone, and a newcomer: NES timpani.

The timpani sound is based on the famous NES staircase triangle wave. But there is no register