6/5 White Rabbits [Johnny Brenda's]
5/30 Jodienda [The Glass Door]
5/23 United Naitons [Delancey]
5/21 White Rabbits, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Antlers [Bowery]
5/20 St. Vincent, Pattern Is Movement [Webster]
5/15 Marie Stella, Coyote Eyes [Portland, ME]
5/9 The Lisps [Joe's Pub]
5/8 Mono [Society for Ethical Culture]
5/3 No Doubt [Bamboozle]
5/2 The Get Up Kids [Bamboozle]
5/1 The Beets, pow wow! [Red Star]
4/22 Into The Presence [Pianos]
4/18 The Life and Times [Webster Studio]
4/16 Middle Distance Runner [The Annex]
4/15 Nada Surf [Bell House]
4/10 The Wrens [Bell House]
4/2 Asobi Seksu [Bowery Ballroom]
3/17 SXSW
3/13 The Wrens / Titus Andronicus [Bowery]
3/6 The Bird and The Bee [Bell House]
3/5 Antlers / The Physics of Meaning [Union Hall]
2/28 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead [Bowery]
2/27 Uninhabitable Mansions / Spacecamp [Union Hall]
2/26 Bell Orchestre / Clogs / Brooklyn Phil [BAM]
2/26 Tally Hall / Oppenheimer [Union Hall]
2/25 Ben Kweller [Town Hall]
2/23 Jimmy Eat World [Terminal 5]
2/18 Sam Roberts Band [Bowery Ballroom]
2/17 Fugiya & Miyagi / School of Seven Bells [LPR]
2/2 Frightened Rabbit [LPR]
1/26 Beirut [Coco66]
1/3 Holy Moly [Pete's Candy Store]
2008
10/8 Barbara Morgenstern [Galapagos]
9/20 My Bloody Valentine [Roseland]
9/11 Land Of Talk [Mercury]
8/25 Lykke Li [LPR]
8/22 Lykke Li [Amoeba - Hollywood]
8/22 Radiohead [Hollywood Bowl]
8/20 Broken Social Scene, Menomena [Sunset Junction]
8/15 Manuel Göttsching [Lincoln Center]
7/31 The Long Winters [Castle Clinton]
7/24 Ambulance LTD [Bowery]
7/18 Deerhoof, Metropolis Ensemble [Prospect Park]
7/17 Ted Leo [Castle Clinton]
6/26 Devo [McCarren Pool]
6/21 After The Jump Fest [Williamsburg]
6/19 Man In Grey's farewell show [Delancey]
6/4 M83 [Bowery]
5/29 Hello Eden [Rebel]
5/28 Birdmonster [Mercury]
5/2 Stars of the Lid [Good Shepherd Church]
4/17 Gelsey Bell [Goodbye Blue Monday]
4/3 Helio Sequence [Bowery]
3/21 Jens Lekman [Hollywood, CA]
3/18 The Lisps [Los Angeles, CA]
3/12-16 SXSW [Austin, TX]
1/27 Laura Veirs [Union Hall]
1/16-17 Wordless Music Orchestra (Adams, Bryars, Greenwood) [St. Paul the Apostle]
2007
12/20 Wakey! Wakey!, Jason Joseph [Arlene's]
12/14 The Most Serene Republic [Mercury]
12/13 Cake, Brazillian Girls, Oakley Hall [Terminal 5]
12/12 Wakey! Wakey!, Jukebox the Ghost [Mercury]
11/28 Max Richter, Cepia, Assaff Weisman [Good-Shepherd Faith Church]
11/10 Mum, Hauschka, Bing and Ruth [Society for Ethical Culture]
11/9 Mum, Torngat [St. Paul the Apostle]
11/3 Grizzly Bear, Michael Harrison [Society for Ethical Culture]
10/16-20 CMJ (Spoon, The Octopus Project, The Most Serene Republic, Saturday Looks Good To Me,1900's, Biffy Clyro, Freezepop...)
10/5 Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Sandro Perri [Good-Shepherd Faith Church]
9/24 Beirut, Colleen [Society for Ethical Culture]
9/21 The Most Serene Republic [Union Hall]
9/20 Beirut, Fifth Veil [Brooklyn Masonic Temple]
9/15 Do Make Say Think [The Middle East, Boston]
9/14 Do Make Say Think, Electric Kompany [Society for Ethical Culture]
8/29 Feist [McCarren]
8/25 After The Jump Festival [Studio B]
8/23 The Rentals [Nokia]
8/21 The New Pornographers [Bowery]
8/19 Wolf Parade [Warsaw]
8/12 Junior Senior [Soundfix]
8/12 Ted Leo/Pharmacists, The Thermals [McCarren]
8/9 Daft Punk [Keyspan]
7/28 Benni Hemm Hemm [Union Hall]
7/23 Eastern Conference Champions [Pianos]
7/4 The New Pornographers [Battery Park]
6/11 Feist [Town Hall]
6/2 Man In Grey [Union Hall]
5/12 LCD Soundsystem [Studio B]
5/8 The Shondes, Beat Radio [Delancey]
5/5 Arcade Fire, The National [Tower Theater]
4/30 The Books [Society for Ethical Culture - Wordless Music Series]
4/24 Pela [Mercury]
Wakey Wakey, Casey Shea [Pianos]
4/14 Cloud Cult, Young Galaxy [Mercury]
4/12 Eastern Conference Champions [Union Hall]
4/2 Amiina, Eluvium, Gilles Vonsattel [Good Shepherd Faith Church - Wordless Music Series]
3/31 The Long Winters, The Broken West [Mercury]
3/28 Menomena [Bowery]
3/23 Toca Loca, Polmo Polpo, Social Music Work Group [Good Shepherd Faith Church]
3/14-3/18 SXSW
3/9 Matt & Kim, Professor Murder [Bowery]
3/7 Mirah, The Blow [NYU]
3/1 Thunderbirds Are Now!, Tigercity [Knitting Factory]
2/20 Explosions In The Sky [Society for Ethical Culture]
2/19 Explosions In The Sky [Warsaw]
2/18 Malajube, Rock Plaza Central [Mercury]
2/17 The Muggabears, Please Dept [The Delancey]
Gelsey Bell [Vivaldi Cafe]
2/16 The Arcade Fire [Judson Memorial Church]
Pela [Mercury]
2/11 Steven Malkmus and the Jicks [Maxwell's]
2/10 Sure Juror [Pianos]
1/30 Peter, Bjorn and John [Bowery]
1/27 Liam & Me, The GoStation, White Rabbits, Seth Kallen + The Reaction [Sin-e]
1/19 The Wrens [Knitting Factory]
1/18 The Hold Steady [Northsix]
1/13 Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Free Blood [Knitting Factory]
1/6 Matt & Kim, Meneguar, Aa [Studio B]
2006
12/20 Bridges & Powerlines [Pianos]
12/16 Rainer Maria, Pela, Daylight For The Birds [Bowery]
12/15 Bell, Lismore, Theives Like Us, The Ballet [Delancey]
12/13 Bound Stems, Ra Ra Riot, The Muggabears [Sin-e]
12/09 Oxford Collapse [Northsix]
11/28 ¡Forward, Russia! [Bowery]
11/22 The Hold Steady [Warsaw]
11/20 The Little Ones, Small Sins [Mercury Lounge]
11/15 A Hawk and A Hacksaw, Andrew Bird [GSF Church]
11/14 Bad Viens [Knitting Factory]
11/13 Modest Mouse [Nokia]
11/10 The Shondes [Brooklyn Lyceum]
11/6 Voxtrot [Bowery]
Cloud Cult [Knitting Factory]
10/31 - 11/4 CMJ [Everywhere]
10/21 Maritime, Bound Stems [Mercury]
10/17 TV On The Radio, Grizzly Bear [Irving]
10/15 Okkervil River, Sam Champion [Bowery]
10/14 Okkervil River, Elvis Perkins [Bowery]
9/30 Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond [Town Hall]
9/29 Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond [Town Hall]
The Long Winters [Bowery]
9/27 The Big Sleep, The Rogers Sisters, The Occasion (Movable Hype 9.0) [Spiegeltent]
9/26 O'Death, DraculaZombieUSA (Beg Yr Pardon #9) [Delancey]
9/18 Wordless Music Series (Glenn Kotche & Nels Cline, Jenny Lin, Elliot Sharp) [GSF Church]
9/15,16,17 Austin City Limits Festival (Explosions In The Sky, Okkervil River, The Long Winters, Nada Surf, Ben Kweller, Ted Leo, Stars, The New Pornographers, Husky Rescue, What Made Milwaukee Famous...)
9/13 The Grates [Pianos]
9/12 The Dears, The Grates [Bowery]
9/3 Mono, Fridge [Bowery]
9/2 Explosions In The Sky [Bowery]
8/31 Asobi Seksu, Say Hi To Your Mom, Cassettes Won't Listen [Maxwell's]
8/29 Casey Dienel, Inlets [Union Hall]
8/25 Ted Leo (free) [South Street Seaport]
Beirut [Mercury]
8/24 My Brightest Diamond [Speigeltent]
8/23 826NYC benefit w/David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, John Roderick [Beacon Theater]
8/21 The Diggs, Slowlands [CBGB]
8/18 The Mugs, The Isles [Union Hall]
8/17 Takka Takka, Slowlands [Union Hall]
8/12 Sleater-Kinney, The Thermals [Portland, OR]
8/8 The Long Winters [Mercury Lounge]
8/7 Silversun Pickups [Union Hall]
8/4 Hot Chip [South Street Seaport]
8/3 The New Pornographers [Summerstage]
7/23 Pretty Girls Make Graves [McCarren Park Pool]
7/21 Jens Lekman, Beirut [Bowery]
7/19 Jens Lekman [Mercury]
7/15 Casey Shea [Knitting Factory]
Siren Fest [Coney Island]
7/14 My Brightest Diamond [Joe's Pub]
7/13 Okkervil River [Castle Clinton]
Oh No! Oh My!, The Big Sleep [Supreme Trading]
7/11 Movable Hype 8.0 [Knitting Factory] w/ Takka Takka, Femme Generation, Goes Cube
7/9 Cursive [Mercury]
Les Savy Fav [McCarren Park Pool]
7/7 The Undisputed Heavyweights [Rockwood]
7/6 Broken Social Scene [Prospect Park]
Mates of State [Castle Clinton]
7/4 Belle & Sebastian [Battery Park]
6/30 Birdmonster, Tally Hall, The Talk [Sin-e]
Matt Pond PA, Voxtrot [Prospect Park]
6/29 Land of Talk, Tokyo Police Club, The Ballet [Syrup Room]
6/28 Gil Mantera's Party Dream [Knitting Factory]
6/27 The Grates [Mercury]
6/25 The Undisputed Heavywights [Rockwood]
6/22 Asobi Seksu [Mercury]
6/17 Beirut [SoundFix]
6/15 Saturday Looks Good To Me [Northsix]
6/14 !Forward, Russia! [Mercury]
6/13 Eels, Smoosh [World Financial Center]
The Boy Least Likely To [Knitting Factory]
6/11 !!! [Northsix]
6/6 Nada Surf, stellastar* [Starlight Ballroom]
6/2 Radiohead [Tower Theater, Philly]
5/27 & 5/28 Sasquatch Music Festival [The Gorge, WA]
5/22 Art Brut [Soundfix]
5/20 Pela [brooklyn rooftop]
5/19 Land of Talk, Slowlands [Mercury Lounge]
Land of Talk, Dr. Dog (KEXP in NYC) [Gigantic Studios]
5/17 Art Brut, Art Brut 47 (We Are Scientists) [Knitting Factory]
5/12 White Rose Movement [Bowery Ballroom]
5/10 Nada Surf (acoustic) [Mercury Lounge]
4/25 Jamie Lidell [Bowery Ballroom]
4/21 The Undisputed Heavyweights, Cloud Cult [Arlene's Grocery]
4/17 Cloud Cult [Knitting Factory]
4/11 Art Brut, The Rogers Sisters [Southpaw]
4/10 Wolf Parade [Webster Hall]
4/9 Voxtrot, Irving [Mercury Lounge]
4/7 The Hold Steady [Warsaw]
4/5 Art Brut, Gil Mantera's Party Dream [Bowery Ballroom]
4/4 Art Brut, The Ponys [Bowery Ballroom]
4/1 Dream Theater [Radio City Music Hall]
3/31 Nine Black Alps [Bowery Ballroom]
3/30 Editors, The Big Sleep [Webster Hall]
3/28 Editors, stellastarr* [Warsaw]
3/22 The Go! Team [NorthSix]
3/21 Magnet [Living Room]
3/11 Belle & Sebastian, New Pornographers [Riverside Theater, Milwaukee]
3/8 The Wedding Present [Bowery]
3/2 Ted Leo/Rx [The Hook]
2/11 Gelsey Bell [Cafe Vivaldi]
2/10 Feist, Mates of State, Jason Collett [Webster]
2/9 Jason Collett [Mercury]
1/27 Broken Social Scene [Webster]
1/16 Nine Black Alps [Mercury]
1/14 Sufjan Stevens [Lincoln Center/Allen Room]
1/12 Tapes 'N Tapes, Sam Champion [Rothko]
1/11 Imogen Heap [Avalon]
Is there any way i could get a copy of the music for that arrangement? I am thinking about arranging the piece for orchestra. It would be pretty different from the original, but any rendition of it on paper would be really helpful.
hotness haha. i love the original too. everytime i come to this blog i hate you for having tickets to the acoustic nada surf show at mercury when I do not. well, not like HATE you, but i am jealous haha
hey Rick. if you see this… i tried emailing you and had it returned. drop me a line at the email address above (top right) and i’ll give you the arranger’s contact info.
Hey Ryan! Thanx a ton for putting up the Melismatics mp3! I love it! I’ve had the song stuck in my head for the past four days. Hope all is well.
do you remember which BSS show at Webster Hall the Anthems track is taken from?
That was from the Friday night show. January 27th.
thanks. i was there sat. night, and it was fabulous.
Hey Rick, could I also get the email of the arranger’s contact information?
Could I get a copy of that beautiful arrangement?
A good effort at arranging “hide and seek”, but it does not do the harmonies justice as the notes have not been transcribed quite correctly and the singers are obviously not capable of singing it. I am mid-way through arranging the peice for 5 parts. We shall hopefully be performing it next Wednesday at a Cambridge ball, hopefully with lighting.
That acappella version of Hide and Seek is just horrid. Ick. The arrangement is bad and the singers sound awful. This beautiful of a song was surely not for them.
In fairness to the group, this is a crude bootleg recording of the first performance of this song. I debated posting it at all because it doesn’t do the performance justice and isn’t well produced (or produced at all). I’d love to get them in a studio and have multiple takes with good microphones. Take it for what it’s worth and if you hate it, let it inspire you to make a better version and point me towards it; I’d enjoy hearing another take on it.
-Ry
personally I don’t think there should be any viberato because they should sound metallic “instrumental” which give the coldness to the sound/song. I’d like to have a copy of the music score of this song too. May I have contact of the arranger as well?
Try this…
http://www.kcrw.com/podcast/enc/audio/tu/tu060913UCLAs_Awaken_Acapell.mp3
from UCLA’s Awaken A Capella.
Hide and Seek was made with a harmonizer, not a vocoder (see : http://aurgasm.us/2005/10/aurgasm-interview-imogen-heap.html)
A vocoder is quite crude an will allow you to apply the spectrum of one signal, in a limited number of frequency bands, to another signal.
A harmonizer will transpose a signal according to midi information, allowing the singer to, for instance, sing chords or apply vibrato.
Thanks for the link Ivo. I believe that Broken Social Scene uses a harmonizer (the guitar pedal type) for their song as well.
I found this through a search — the a cappella group that I am in really want to do this song and have had a difficult time finding an arrangement on paper. If it’s not any trouble, could you possibly send the arrangement?
habbydashes@gmail.com
thanks!
I am also looking for the score for this… I loved the recording. I’ve been trying to transpose this by ear and its slow going work… *laughs* Any help you could give would be great
Does anyone have a new link for the UCLA a capella version of “Hide and Seek?” I’m searching everywhere for their rendition, and I’m having no luck. Please!
THsnks.
Hi. I would also like to find the score for Hide & Seek, wether it be a MIDI file or actual sheet music. Anyone have ideas where to look or whom to contact? Thanks!
The a capella version of ‘Hide and Seek’ is good… and for those of you whom have been slamming it obviously don’t have a true appreciation for music. To hear something like this live is completely different than this ‘bootlegged’ rendition that has not been professionally produced.
Have any of you actually seen Imogen Heap live? Well, I have, and she makes mistakes… ironically, she is human. To me, that gives much more meaning to the actual piece of music making it that much more real and not overly polished in a professional studio setting.
Congrats to Lehigh University Melismatics for their performance of Hide and Seek. Amazing work.
here’s a better a-cappella performance of the song: www.transit-music.com.
there’s a score available at www.josephbates.com
Daft Punk uses a talkbox, not a vocoder.
Hi,
I found your blog via google by accident and have to admit that youve a really interesting blog
Just saved your feed in my reader, have a nice day
any chance to get a score or a midi file?
thanks.
ditto merodeador?
Hey all,
To those looking specifically for the Melismatics version of Imogen’s “Hide and Seek”, Ryan is half-correct. I have it in its original manuscript form (i had intended to put it into noteworthy eventually, but never had the time)…
If you’d like a .pdf of the manuscript, send me an email at brett (dot) philpotts (at) gmail (dot) com; feel free to ask questions, too.
Thanks for the comments, folks (both positive and negative). We strived to make the performance as poignant as possible, and there’s always room for improvement.
(and imogen, if you ever read this, i hope you aren’t disappointed!)
Cheers,
brett philpotts
You can buy the newest UCLA Awaken A Cappella CD (with “Hide and Seek”) at:
http://www.a-cappella.com/product/Awaken_A_Cappella_Lifes_a_Beach_CD/48
I thought I’d mention that currently on Imogen Heap’s myspace page you’ll find the Melismatics a cappella version of Hide and Seek listen as one of three of “Imogen’s Favorite” covers. Well done friends! And hooray for live, unadulterated recordings.
www.myspace.com/imogenheap
Hey Guys,
This is by far my favorite a cappella version of the song…
http://www.groovygrooves.com/video/hide-and-seek-a-capella
Just disregard the no pants part.
Hey, I want to arrange a version of this for my friends to sing at our V show. Could I get this arrangement so I have an idea to work with?
-thanks :]
Hi,
I am in a marching band and was wondering if anywhere out there there is a midi file of hide and seek! i’ve searched everywhere and i would really like it so i could turn it into a sweet warm-up.
please help!
I Would be eternally grateful to anyone who could get me a copy of the sheet music to that arrangement! I would love to preform this with my a cappella group
Hi, i want a group of my friends to sing this song for a talent show…could you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send me some sort of arrangement or sheet music for it?
hi,
i was just wondering if you could send me the arrangment also as i am going to be performing a harmony group and was just wondering if you had the music readily availible for me to have as we are currently trying to work out each of our parts purely by ear.
obviously it would be much easier for us if there was an arrangment availible instead of a tedious and long drawn out method that we are currently using.
thank you for your time
elliot
How does one get the arrangement for this music? Im part of a music fraternity that would like to perform it. I volunteered to do an arrangement, but im finding it a bit more difficult than i expected. Thanks a million.
Hi..
I have started a choir at my school and have been wanting to teach them this song but I couldn’t find the music for it. Would it be possible to send me the score??? If not don’t worry.
My e-mail address is jags1991@hotmail.com
Thanks,
Jess
Orchestra teacher trying to find any score to arrange for kids - they’d freak out for this…and practice. anyone want to send me any score they have? for the kids….
chpeele@gmail.com
Hi!
I’m a music major at the University of Missouri! There is a talent show comming up and I would like to ask if you could send me the arrangements/sheet music for “Hide and Seek”, so that I could put together A capella group. Shooting for a 4 part harmony. I’m in the chamber,concert and show choir so I will probably just gather a few up for this event.
I would love it if you could get it to
My email address is hellscounsoler@hotmail.com
Thanks
hello,
im looking for the sheet music so that me adn a few friends can learn it faster then by ear.
we have a banquet comming up in a few weeks and i was wondering if anyone had the sheet music so that i dont need to write it out.
it would be greatly appritiated.
Martini
Hey. I’m a TA (teacher’s assistant) for my first time to a freshman’s girl choir. They are some really talanted girls. The teacher asked me to find a piece that they really loved and wouldn’t be too difficult fot them. If anyone could provide me with any rough type of score I’d be very grateful.
huzzahitscassie@aim.com
I stumbled across your post after AGES of searching for sheet music for this song, and many attempts to transpose it by ear…
If you could send me the sheet music (if you still have it) I would be happy happy happy (and have much less hard work to do!)
Thanks!
Sorry.. email is waiting_to_fly@hotmail.com
Thanks again!
Absolutely MUST have the sheet music / MIDI file
bunting84@gmail.com
MANY THANKS!!!
Dave
hey, i’m a member of the a cappella group at my high school and i was wondering if there would be any way to get an arrangement for this song. it would be greatly appreciated
hey if i could get the arrangement also that would be absolutly fantastic. I am also one of those dedicated individuals who got repayed for hours of looking for this song with a one page demo. so if you could send me it asap, that would be amazing
sorry forgot the same jake here could you email it at pjakepine@aol.com
Hi, stumbled upon your site while looking for an arrangement of Hide and Seek. I have one, but I’m searching for a slightly better arrangement. I run an a capella choir at UIC. If you could email along the arrangement, that would be fantastic. I do have Finale if you have a .mus file of it. Thanks, email is snoopy5312[at]gmail.com