Letting the Air Out of the Band: Difference between revisions

== [[Music]] ==

* The use of this trope by [[Aaron Copland]] in the Hoe-Down from "Rodeo" is occasionally seen as brilliant, and occasionally seen as [[Narm]].

* Brian Eno did a brilliant version of this trope by having a band, in entirely separate rooms, playing "Nearer My God To Thee." Every single musician was counted in simultaneously, and thus they started in sync, but they were each left to keep their own time thereafter, with the result that they drifted eerily apart, until each one was given an individual dim. to fade. The idea was not to play it for comedic effect, but to recreate the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'', if someone had managed to record the band as she went under. Hauntingly beautiful, and kinda eerie.

** That's actually a composition called "The Sinking of the Titanic" by [http://www.gavinbryars.com/Pages/titanic_point.html Gavin Bryars], though the original recording was on Eno's label. Bryars's idea is that the band keeps playing even after the ship has sunk, with the sound being dissipated by the underwater acoustics.

* A [[Tear Jerker|decidedly not comedic]] version appears in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', during the second-last chapter of the storybook. The music plays as normal, a calm, soothing nursery tune, even during the most heartbreaking scene yet where the unnamed girl living at the observatory gets homesick, being particularly sorry she can't visit her favorite tree. It's all quite sad, though not altogether unexpected for the storybook, until {{spoiler|we find out the reason she's so attached to the tree is because her [[Missing Mom|beforehand unmentioned mother]] is buried under it}}. Cue the music stopping, and not coming back until the next chapter.

* Happens when you fail a song in ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' and ''[[Guitar Hero]] II''.

* The music your rides play in [[Rollercoaster Tycoon]] do this whenever they break down. Actually justified with the carousel, as they often contained mechanical organs that ran on compressed air. The various other styles of recorded looping music that other rides can be set to play... not so much.

** Inverted when the carousel breaks down due to a control failure. The music speeds up while the carousel spins rapidly, trapping the riders.