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Post by Treecat on May 18, 2008 19:57:23 GMT -5
I found an interesting video of Enya's performance of TMOTN at Rockefeller Center in 2006. This isn't the TV broadcast, but a video someone made with their camera-phone. They were close to the stage.
What I find interesting is that the sound in this video, even as poor as a camera-phone video might be, is more 'live' sounding than what was broadcast. I wonder, could she have sang live that night, but when the show was broadcast, the recorded version of the song (or a large part of it) was dubbed over her performance to provide a more high quality sound for a tv broadcast. If so, perhaps this was done for other performers that night as well.
I guess I can't leave a URL to the Youtube video, but it's easy to find: Plug ENYA into the search engine and sort by Date Added. This one was added on May 16th and is on page 2 (as of today) of the listings. Below this one is a second camera-phone video taken from behind the stage.
I've always felt that some portion of Enya's performance that night was live, even though I admit it's a tough call. These two personal videos strengthen my feeling about that, but I'd like to hear from other people here on what you think about them.
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Post by astro on May 18, 2008 23:01:32 GMT -5
I just found it! Talk about something else... Like that sort of thing.
It could be, TC. It looked to me like she was really getting into it and having a good time with it all. Could it be only the instrumental portion was done by recording? Maybe, as I don't see how the drummers could have done it, plus one or two of the violins appeared out of sync. Like they were more focused on Enya than their performance.
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Post by Angoid on May 19, 2008 7:04:22 GMT -5
The quality of the cameraphone recording is so poor that I have to really concentrate to even hear Enya's voice for the most part.
The full version seems to be live to me, but I can see that maybe some parts could be spliced in. Somehow, her voice does seem natural to me.
If some parts were recorded and other parts truly live, would this not result in a slight difference to the timbre of Enya's voice during the performance, as the producers switch between the two?
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Post by oregonwinebaby on May 19, 2008 11:51:42 GMT -5
Wow, that is hard to say! My guess would be that it wasn't fully live. I think it was dubbed over. The volume of her voice was the same regardless of how close she was to the mic...I don't know...but good question! At 0:15-16 seconds in, does it kind of look like Enya started to say "everything" rather than "angels?"
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Post by marie on May 19, 2008 14:20:25 GMT -5
I think the performance is semi-live. I think she sings along with the track of herself singing. I don't know for sure though.
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Post by skyscape on May 20, 2008 7:27:30 GMT -5
I would be surprised if Enya had been singing live at the Rockefeller performance.
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Post by Becket on May 20, 2008 9:42:19 GMT -5
Many posts here are probably right...There was probably a live mic there...oregonwinebaby has a good point about a singer moving away from the mic and you still here the voice the same...also a hint that someone is not singing is if they are smiling alot, they most likely are not singing, but smiling...
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Post by Treecat on May 20, 2008 10:23:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the replies everyone. It is hard to pin down. OWB, I'll look at the video again for the 'everything-angels' possible mishap. It looks to me like she maintains a pretty constant stance at the microphone, and neither moves much closer to it, or much further from it. I don't know. The sound quality is very poor, but I still feel that I hear a shred of real vocal there and not solely the album version, that she sang live over the album version. Beckett, do you think she's smiling so much that she can't be singing? Angoid, per above I think she sang live over the song, or perhaps a specially prepared track that contained backing voices and the music. But you're right, the sound quality is poor. I just listen to it and think that there's something natural about her voice, as you say. I do wonder if the network would be able to insert the album version of the song for a live version, when the program went out over the air? Or was the show entirely live, and broadcast as it was happening? Ah well!
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Post by Moe on May 20, 2008 10:32:17 GMT -5
I do wonder if the network would be able to insert the album version of the song for a live version, when the program went out over the air? Or was the show entirely live, and broadcast as it was happening? Ah well! I believe, IIRC, that parts were live and parts were taped, and that Enya's performance was taped ahead of time. There was someone there, in NYC, who posted about this at that other place.
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Post by Treecat on May 20, 2008 10:40:59 GMT -5
Thanks Kerry. Then it would (I suppose) be possible for the network to substitute the album version (or some taped version) for Enya's live performance, if they wished. OTOH, I also feel that there's a 'live' sound to the broadcast version. By the way, if you search on YT, you can also find a video of her performance of IITR at New York. That's also nice, and I wish they had been able to broadcast both songs.
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