Vocal Accompaniment
Singers, teachers and choir directors know that the best way to perform vocal music is with the accompaniment the composer intended. Using piano reductions or pre-recorded music is a compromise that’s come to be expected, even though it flattens the emotional and expressive power of the music.
Example – Magnifica Chorale, Tran Chuc, conductor
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The Fauxharmonic is not a recording. It’s a subtle and expressive digital musical instrument played by musicians who sensitively accompany your singing. The Fauxharmonic gives you the full orchestral accompaniment that provides the expansive, unique and inspiring sonic world that best supports your creative endeavor. And we’re affordable enough to use during early rehearsals, right up through concert performances … giving you time to explore and integrate your vocal sound with the orchestral palette.
Magnificent sounding
Even the best pianist or organist can’t change the fact that they only have access to a limited palette of musical color and expression. For example, no pianist can create a sustained, largo crescendo matching that of the human voice. But the Fauxharmonic Orchestra can do this. And by faithfully producing the sounds the composer envisioned, the Fauxharmonic delivers the magnificent sound world that supports and inspires singers.
Just the right balance
Soloists and choirs can produce an incredibly wide range of dynamics and sound colors. Supporting these with an equally diverse and flexible accompaniment is often essential to producing the result composers intended (and that audiences deserve).
The Fauxharmonic musicians play with you in real time and in your performance space. We have direct musical control over balance and tempo, enabling us to produce just the right fit the music and your vision demands.
Need more support and power at the climax? You got it. Need more time at the end of that phrase? Sure thing. The purpose of the Fauxharmonic accompaniment is to support the musical needs of the moment, not to make you shoe-horn your performance into a one-size-fits-all recording.
No last minute surprises
Even though you work hard to get ready for your performance, switching to an orchestral accompaniment one day before your concert can be disorienting. And since there is no time at that late point in the process, you have no opportunity to really explore the best way to fit your sound with the orchestral palette.
You can work with the Fauxharmonic accompaniment from the beginning. Making sure that the musical result you’ve been polishing for weeks is exactly what you’re going to bring out on stage during your concert.
Matching your artistic vision
Of course you have a vision for how your performance should go. You should not have to suppress it just to get the right orchestral accompaniment. We work with you to make sure that the tempi, balance, cuts, timbre, and rubato are calibrated to your vision and your needs.
Live accompaniment examples
Fauré, Pie Jesu, from Requiem, Dante Paganucci, soprano
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Handel, Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes, Tynan Davis, mezzo [concert performance]
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Myron, Iphegenia at Aulis, Aria 3, Tynan Davis, mezzo [concert performance]
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Uematsu, Liberi Fatali, from Final Fantasy VIII, [concert performance]
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Affordable, customized recorded accompaniments
For recordings or for projects where the budget does not allow a full, live collaboration with the Fauxharmonic, we can deliver a customized recording to accompany you. We can use your arrangement, with your cuts, tempi, rubato, repeats, etc. And we work with you to finalize these important details of the accompaniment before you begin rehearsing and recording.
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