We're really not sure what 'hoohoo' means but it sounds like it might be a word they use to refer to sex on late-night television.
So, we don't know what it means but if anyone can bring it then we're thinking it would be Voodoo Shilton.
If you don't think jazz is sexy then you've obviously never heard Voodoo play.
All of Voodoo's music seems a continual painting and he may go back at any time to a piece because he sees it needs another color. Sometimes he will speak of it and at other times he is happy to leave you to make of the sound what you will. There are always surprises in a Voodoo show.
In case you missed this one, best chance to hear him again is in two weeks or find his group in Second Life and find out where else he plays.
There are two key words for this in orchestration and arrangement. Orchestration refers to the instruments you will use and arrangement refers to how you will put them together. Maybe for orchestration you decide you need a tuba and a flute. For the arrangement, the tuba plays one bar, then the flute plays one, and then the tuba comes back for another to crush every possibility of life out of the flute. That's an arrangement but probably not one the flute will like very much.
Often you will hear of Voodoo's versatility but how did he get that way. If you're interested to find out, listen. Check out the orchestration and the arrangement as he plays and listen for how he brings things in and out of it. He doesn't use every instrument for every song and his songs will always go through a variety of changes during their courses.
It's not my purpose to turn anyone into a musicologist as I'm not one but I've learned various things and they may help me hear things other people may not. The risk is any discussion may get overly technical and I consider that in Chat in-world because many times people don't want to analyze anything, I just want to listen to the music, man.
For understanding arrangement, there are BSWD songs (i.e. birth-school-work-death ... nothing ever changes). Maybe a song of that nature will have three chords and someone sings while they are played. They're good for singing around campfires and that sort of thing. There may even be high art in them sometimes but this type of song nevertheless has a simple arrangement.
It's the arrangement which changes when you add a chorus as now there's a section in which the chords probably change and different things happen. This is when people will start talking of an A part and a B part as the verse is A and the chorus is B. Then you can use a shorthand for the arrangement of the song in saying it is A-B-A-B-B. That general arrangement of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus is quite common.
An arrangement is anything up to a symphony and whatever is beyond symphonies. If you listen for this in Voodoo's work, it may give a greater appreciation of what he plays. The same is true in listening for the orchestration as he won't throw the udu up there in your face, you have to listen for it.
The reference to symphonic music is not specious as imagine Voodoo's musical challenge in tracking the music to be played on half a dozen instruments. This is not so different conceptually from composing a symphony as the latter has a violin section, bassoon section, etc but the composer isn't writing a chart for each instrument in each section. The composer needs to visualize the relative sounds of each instrument or section and balance them ... and somehow remember how it went.
At some point, I wondered out loud how much of Voodoo's work is on charts. He answered over the mike that he keeps some notes for settings for hardware but I heard zip about charting the music. What that means is he carries it all in his head.
Someone told me a story once and it may have been Voodoo. Pablo Casals was at a concert by Django Reinhardt and Casals thought this was some highly excellent work. He inquired about a particular piece with Reinhardt after the set as he was interested to see the chart for the music. Reinhardt just tapped the side of his head.
Well ... Voodoo does that too. How about that.
Important note: Voodoo Shilton does zero grandstanding. Any grandstanding you're perceiving is because I wrote it that way and that's an accurate rendition of my enjoyment of the set. I'm a fan. Is it so wrong?? (larfs)
(Ed: so, what does hoohoo mean?)
No idea.
So, we don't know what it means but if anyone can bring it then we're thinking it would be Voodoo Shilton.
If you don't think jazz is sexy then you've obviously never heard Voodoo play.
All of Voodoo's music seems a continual painting and he may go back at any time to a piece because he sees it needs another color. Sometimes he will speak of it and at other times he is happy to leave you to make of the sound what you will. There are always surprises in a Voodoo show.
In case you missed this one, best chance to hear him again is in two weeks or find his group in Second Life and find out where else he plays.
There are two key words for this in orchestration and arrangement. Orchestration refers to the instruments you will use and arrangement refers to how you will put them together. Maybe for orchestration you decide you need a tuba and a flute. For the arrangement, the tuba plays one bar, then the flute plays one, and then the tuba comes back for another to crush every possibility of life out of the flute. That's an arrangement but probably not one the flute will like very much.
Often you will hear of Voodoo's versatility but how did he get that way. If you're interested to find out, listen. Check out the orchestration and the arrangement as he plays and listen for how he brings things in and out of it. He doesn't use every instrument for every song and his songs will always go through a variety of changes during their courses.
It's not my purpose to turn anyone into a musicologist as I'm not one but I've learned various things and they may help me hear things other people may not. The risk is any discussion may get overly technical and I consider that in Chat in-world because many times people don't want to analyze anything, I just want to listen to the music, man.
For understanding arrangement, there are BSWD songs (i.e. birth-school-work-death ... nothing ever changes). Maybe a song of that nature will have three chords and someone sings while they are played. They're good for singing around campfires and that sort of thing. There may even be high art in them sometimes but this type of song nevertheless has a simple arrangement.
It's the arrangement which changes when you add a chorus as now there's a section in which the chords probably change and different things happen. This is when people will start talking of an A part and a B part as the verse is A and the chorus is B. Then you can use a shorthand for the arrangement of the song in saying it is A-B-A-B-B. That general arrangement of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus is quite common.
An arrangement is anything up to a symphony and whatever is beyond symphonies. If you listen for this in Voodoo's work, it may give a greater appreciation of what he plays. The same is true in listening for the orchestration as he won't throw the udu up there in your face, you have to listen for it.
The reference to symphonic music is not specious as imagine Voodoo's musical challenge in tracking the music to be played on half a dozen instruments. This is not so different conceptually from composing a symphony as the latter has a violin section, bassoon section, etc but the composer isn't writing a chart for each instrument in each section. The composer needs to visualize the relative sounds of each instrument or section and balance them ... and somehow remember how it went.
At some point, I wondered out loud how much of Voodoo's work is on charts. He answered over the mike that he keeps some notes for settings for hardware but I heard zip about charting the music. What that means is he carries it all in his head.
Someone told me a story once and it may have been Voodoo. Pablo Casals was at a concert by Django Reinhardt and Casals thought this was some highly excellent work. He inquired about a particular piece with Reinhardt after the set as he was interested to see the chart for the music. Reinhardt just tapped the side of his head.
Well ... Voodoo does that too. How about that.
Important note: Voodoo Shilton does zero grandstanding. Any grandstanding you're perceiving is because I wrote it that way and that's an accurate rendition of my enjoyment of the set. I'm a fan. Is it so wrong?? (larfs)
(Ed: so, what does hoohoo mean?)
No idea.
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