User blog:Zabuza825/Akitian cultural exchange - Engaku

I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to RP a cultural exchange of music stuffs with Akitsu.

What do I have to offer? Engaku.

So, Engaku (演楽) is a style of musical performance that would have developed while Akitsu was modernizing. It involves music and song playing that tells a story while a perfomer acts the story out, usually in a dance. Think of it as merging and/or  with more modern musical styles.

What would this look like? Well, an Engaku performance can look a number of ways. I'll provide a number of examples here.

BEFORE YOU CONTINUE, I would like to note that as this is a fictional musical style I don't exactly have any actual video of it, I can only give examples of what the music would sound like and the kinds of stories it would tell.

So, now that that's out of the way.

An Engaku performance could be a single song telling a single story, as in the first ever Engaku performed in Akitsu, "Oni to Musume" (鬼と娘) which translates into either "the Demon and the Maiden" or "the Ogre and the Maiden" depending on who does your translation for you (both are fairly accurate). See the thumbnail to the right for the music.

Alternatively, an Engaku performance could be more than one song strung together into a cohesive story. The best example of this would be the two songs "Judgement of Corruption" and "Muzzle of the Nemesis". I'm not about to embed two more videos here, so here are the links.

Part 1 - Judgement of Corruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2SXc0dH4K8

Part 2 - Muzzle of the Nemesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeouZC7r5V8

An engaku performance can also tell the same story from multiple points of view. Or an Engaku performance could merge the different styles, telling part of a story from more than one point of view, but also going into other events that take place before/after a story. The best example of the merging of the different styles is the "Story of Evil"

Part 1 - Daughter of Evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q46Osg9C4pA

Part 2 - Servant of Evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnyPIbt1BA

Part 3 - Regret Message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4shMkF0ymk

Part 4 - Daughter of White: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f0ljVok71U

The idea through everything is to deliver a compelling story through this form.

My idea for the cultural exchange would be that an Akitian group of performers could travel to other nations and perform there for an audience. How does that sound to people?

Side note: most of said songs are vocaloid songs for the simple reason that I personally find it hard to find songs that tell a story so directly in other forms.