Olympic faking: Sydney orchestra mimed entire opening ceremony performance ceremony, orchestra, performance, opening, Olympic

peter236

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/2631416/Olympic-faking-Sydney-orchestra-mimed-entire-opening-ceremony-performance.html

The orchestra that played at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony has admitted miming its entire performance, in a faking confession that dwarfs the Beijing lip-synching scandal.


By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 11:58PM BST 27 Aug 2008

The musicians of the Sydney Symphony were going through the motions as pre-recorded music was pumped out of speakers during the celebrations at Stadium Australia to mark the start of the 2000 Games, orchestra directors have confirmed.

Parts of the backing track - reportedly including the seven-minute Tin Symphony, one of the centrepieces of the show - were even recorded by a rival institution, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO).

"It's correct that we were basically miming to a pre-recording,” said Libby Christie, Sydney Symphony's managing director, after reports of the deception emerged this week.

"It was all pre-recorded and the MSO did record a minority of the music that was performed," she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

She said that the decision was made because the organisers "wanted to leave nothing to chance", and that the recording was shared between two orchestras because of the "mountainous workload" involved.

Ms Christie said that she could only recall one other occasion on which the Sydney Symphony had mimed – the opening ceremony of the Rugby Union World Cup in 2003.

Trevor Green of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra said he thought the decision to mime was "perfectly normal".

"There are millions of people watching and if something goes wrong you'd be snookered," he said.

The Sydney Symphony’s confession undermines those who have seen the Beijing faking scandals as evidence of a peculiarly Chinese quest for perfection.

Lin Miaoke, a photogenic nine-year-old girl who “sang” as the Chinese flag entered the stadium during the opening ceremony was later revealed to have been miming. The real singer was a seven-year-old girl with buck teeth.

Chinese officials also admitted that the pictures of giant firework footprints which marched across Beijing towards the stadium were prerecorded, digitally enhanced and inserted into footage beamed across the world.

notgoddy

goes to show the lip-sync were not an issue, expect for westerners to go crazy about...

sheep

In the beginning of all discussion on the opening ceremony of the Olympics, it was not about lip-sync is right or wrong.
You should know that lip-sync are people mime their own voice, not mime others voice.
Can you lip-sync Eddie Lau's song in the public and claimed that was your performance?
It was a fake performance. If the girl was lip-syncing her own voice, there is no issue to talk about it.
Do you see anyone saying that 郎朗 playing piano is a fake performance?
We just say he was playing simultaneously with the pre-recorded to ensure a perfect performance. No argue, right?

[ 本帖最後由 sheep 於 2008-8-29 20:36 編輯 ]

notgoddy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip_sync

Your definition of lip sync is wrong. Of course you can lip sync someone else, but obliviously not someone that is famous unless as a joke or something. Anyway, this is not the case for the little girls in the opening ceremony, they were both relatively unknown, furthermore, the lip sync is done for performance sake and such a move is widely accepted in the entertainment industry.

peter236

原帖由 sheep 於 2008-8-29 20:29 發表
In the beginning of all discussion on the opening ceremony of the Olympics, it was not about lip-sync is right or wrong.
You should know that lip-sync are people mime their own voice, not mime others  ...

Did you read the article carefully? The Sydney orchestra was lip-syncing to recordings that was done by both the Sydney orchestra and the Melbourne orchestra.
So Sydney orchestra was actually lip-syncing to another orchestra's recordings. We are talking about famous orchestras here, not only little girls.
I just cannot believe you cannot read properly.

[ 本帖最後由 peter236 於 2008-8-29 22:46 編輯 ]

notgoddy

I believe you can read properly, but your thinking could be a little off.

peter236

原帖由 notgoddy 於 2008-8-29 22:53 發表
I believe you can read properly, but your thinking could be a little off.

Do you mean Mr. sheep?

notgoddy

I am just practicing my gibberish.

I guess everyone could be a little off. (see I am still practicing my gibberish.)

sheep

So these are your so call thinking are exactly like most of the mainland Chinese are thinking.
I don't blame you. You are all at the same level.

notgoddy

We call that thinking sympathy, and it is not exclusive to the mainland Chinese.