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The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

#128: Alex Lacamoire // Part Three

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In Alex Lacamoire's third episode Alex talks about how electronic sounds are used in Hamilton, why the orchestrations of It's Quiet Uptown destroy us every single time we listen to it, more musical themes, and finally... we do Barbershop Beastie Boys. Alex, please come back!

(It's Quiet Uptown is discussed and played from 12:00-14:45 and again from 16:30-21:05)

Will Wells:

http://willwellsmusic.com

Aesop Rock - 1,000 O'Clock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-qrvz_tA_k

The Beatles - Fixing a Hole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPBd8eHQqIw

Transcript

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0:00.0

So our theme song song.

0:06.6

theme song.

0:08.0

Yeah.

0:09.0

Okay, on to Alex Lackmore, Part 3.

0:15.0

Hi, I'm Stage and Stages Lin Manuel Miranda,

0:18.0

and you're listening to The Hamelcast.

0:20.0

Bootsin, cutson,

0:22.0

Bootsin, Bootsin. Puts and cuts and cuts. Puts and... Emily's asking, who decides and how is the decision made, which sounds and

0:38.3

Hamilton are pre-recorded and which are live? That's a great question.

0:41.7

So I learned this in Bring It On. And by the way, if it had not been for Bring

0:46.5

It On, I would not have known how to orchestrate Hamilton. That is really?

0:49.9

Absolutely. Because Bring It On was the first time that I really tried to incorporate

0:55.1

electronic elements with live theatre elements and I made a lot of misfires along the way and

1:00.8

Tom Kit and I did the charts together and we just learned a lot and what I

1:04.4

learned the most important thing was that if you overcrowd the Sonic space with pre-recorded

1:09.8

material it just

1:15.0

leaves no room for humanity in life and it winds up just getting over cluttered and overcrowded and you don't hear the vocals you don't hear the story being told because no matter what

1:20.6

something that is fed directly into the soundboard digitally speaking

1:24.0

is always going to be a little louder than like the thing that's micing the bass or the thing that's micing

1:29.9

the strings or whatever so it's a little bit of a losing battle. So then I learned to

1:34.6

leave more and more space for the real live band and just have the pre-recorded

1:39.7

stuff just be a little bit more judicious about us use.

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