Freelance 13, “Konami Eleison”, or The Konami Code Kyrie, works thusly.
Let’s say you are living in Renaissance Europe. Let’s say Avignon or something, why not? And let’s say you are a composer. There aren’t orchestras waiting to play your symphonies. The biggest work you’re likely to ever compose is a Mass to be sung in church, with seven sections of text set to music.
We wanted to do that!
These masses were often composed using the “cantus firmus” technique, where one line (often the tenor) would sing the melody from a well-known bit of music at the time. This would often be very stretched out to accommodate adding lots of ornamentation in the other parts.
We did that too! We used the chorus of Radiohead’s “High and Dry”.
And finally, the first text was always “Kyrie eleison”, Latin for “Lord, have mercy”.
But we’re not religious, so after much discussion, we changed the lyrics to the Konami Code, by which many gamers have saved themselves.
If you thought this was neat, we hope you come back next Thursday morning and see what we can do next week! Until then, we offer you this humble phrase: UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START
This toronto indie band made this song a few years back, and from time to time I go back and listen to it again.
No word of a lie, if I’m ever rich enough that I can spend money to do cool and wild things at random, I will hire choirs to perform this in old churches near comiccons
What a lovely little note to see by happenstance. ♥
