I Bless The Rains

[filkertom]

Anne sent me this epic choral version of Toto's "Africa", but it's the first minute that's really cool:

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

I wonder if it took specific direction to get the rain effect, or if it was just "snap your fingers and sound like rain".

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was well choreographed. Notice that they start off with rubbing their hands together, then the finger-snapping, then thigh-slapping, then jumping on the risers, and then they back off to the finger-snapping again. The lack of synchronization between all of them is what really makes it work, as it sounds more like natural rain falling rather than a bunch of people making hand noises.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I noticed that it was arranged in sections. What I was wondering was what it took to make each section work.

I suspect there's more than one kind of lack of synchronization. "Like rain" probably isn't the same thing as random.