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title: "Music in STOKED!"
canonical: "https://sofia.me/music-in-stoked/"
pubDate: "2024-10-09T19:19:55+00:00"
author: Sofia van Veen
description: "For the new musical theater performance STOKED! we wrote everything ourselves. That includes the music and all the songs. And by “we” I’m talking about a broad team of creators: songwriters, composer, musicians, arranger, etc. It’s a super interesting process, which usually starts with lyrics."
tags: ["STOKED!"]
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For the new musical theater performance STOKED! we wrote everything ourselves. That includes the music and all the songs. And by “we” I’m talking about a broad team of creators: songwriters, composer, musicians, arranger, etc. It’s a super interesting process, which usually starts with lyrics. That has a place in the story, with characters, moment and emotion. I know the characters and the story and have designed the unicycle-sessions. The song-lyrics then create a kind of an extra layer, which forces me to re-evaluate the unicycle-parts. Over time, the music comes in. First in a bare performance, just melody. With that we can then feel if the text fits. After fitting, measuring and polishing, the final song is added in a working format. We can rehearse this to see if it really fits. If it does, then the work format is translated into sheet music and the music is played. I know I’ll have to wait a while to let you hear it, but I’m sooooo curious to hear what you guys think.