You Don't need an Orchestra when You Have a Bedroom Musician - Discuss | iServalan | Continuum Music
What Is the Point of an Orchestra? You Don't need an Orchestra when You Have a Bedroom Musician - Discuss | iServalan | Continuum Music When any Tom, Dick, or Harry can make a “classical” album in their bedroom in an hour, the orchestra looks suspiciously obsolete. You can buy the samples. You can stack the parts. You can quantise the timing, tune the pitch, polish the reverb. You can export something that sounds orchestral before the kettle has boiled. So why bother with eighty musicians, rehearsal schedules, acoustic spaces, conductors, unions, funding applications, and all that glorious inefficiency? The orchestra is not a sound-making device. It is a social instrument . A bedroom orchestra produces results. A real orchestra produces consequences. In a bedroom, music is assembled. In an orchestra, music is negotiated . Every note exists inside a web of listening, adjustment, restraint, and responsibility. No sound is isolated. No decision is private. Every player mus...