Hello again,
I've been thinking over the last week about the "golden" years of EPCOT Center (when EPCOT was still an acronym in the park's name that meant something), the period from the park's opening in 1982 to about 1989 when Wonders of Life opened. EPCOT Center contained the final work of many of Walt's original Imagineers and the first projects of the second generation. These "golden" years are certainly a period in the park's history that desperately need to be documented.
I've also been thinking about how the combined efforts of members of this discussion board resulted in a complete playlist for the pre-Reflections of Earth loop.
Together, this has prompted me to try starting a new "community" project . . . a musical history of EPCOT Center.
When I say a musical history, I actually mean a compliation of playlists from those early years of EPCOT but with more information than we usually include - such as more detailed information about where the music was played, the years it was heard, and composer/arranger information. Such as playlist might look something like this:
Main Entrance
Area Loop (1982-2000) - (28:31)
01. Energy
02. Golden Dream
03. Fun to be Free
04. Listen to the Land
05. One Little Spark
06. Magic Journeys
07. Universe of Energy
Composer:
Arrangement:
Sources: Walt Disney World Sound Archive (http://home.cfl.rr.com/wdwsongarchive/epcot82.htm)
A first step would be to determine the various playlists required. My preliminary list includes:
Spaceship Earth - Queue Loop
Earth Station - Area Loop
Universe of Energy - Area Loop, Load, Unload
Horizons - Area Loop, Queue Loop, Exit Loop
World of Motion - Area Loop, Queue Loop, Transcenter Area Loop
Journey Into Imagination - Area Loop, Attraction Queue Loop, Exit Loop, Image Works Area Loop, Magic Eye Theater Queue Loop, Magic Eye Theater Load
Land - Exterior Area Loop, Interior Area Loop, Listen to the Land Queue Loop, Kitchen Kabaret Queue Loop, Kitchen Kabaret Load, Symbiosis Queue Loop, Symbiosos Load
Living Seas - Area Loop, Queue Loop, Sea Base Alpha Area Loop
Communicore - don't even really know where to begin here
We would also want to think about the World Showcase pavilions, and there are certainly more beyond that. Would we want to include actual attraction audio information (something the Walt Disney World Sound Archive has done very well)?
Anyway, what I am getting at is this, the Internet has allowed us to collectively document the Disney theme parks, and efforts have been made on this board (an elsewhere) to do just that - I'm thinking back to the Disneyland playlists compiled quite some time ago on this discussion board. What is different is that because the park is not incredibly old, we have the opportunity to document those early years in ways we cannot do for Disneyland or the Magic Kingdom.
I am not as well connected (information wise) as many members of this board nor do I live anywhere near Epcot, but I am more than happy to compile information given to me and do some research of my own to provide additional information. Collected information could be posted here or on some other website willing to post it.
Does this sound like a do-able project? Is it even worth collectively trying? Epcot has changed drastically over the last few years (as you all know) and such a collective project may be more difficult as time wears on.
Just some ideas.
Best,
wedroy 1923
I've been thinking over the last week about the "golden" years of EPCOT Center (when EPCOT was still an acronym in the park's name that meant something), the period from the park's opening in 1982 to about 1989 when Wonders of Life opened. EPCOT Center contained the final work of many of Walt's original Imagineers and the first projects of the second generation. These "golden" years are certainly a period in the park's history that desperately need to be documented.
I've also been thinking about how the combined efforts of members of this discussion board resulted in a complete playlist for the pre-Reflections of Earth loop.
Together, this has prompted me to try starting a new "community" project . . . a musical history of EPCOT Center.
When I say a musical history, I actually mean a compliation of playlists from those early years of EPCOT but with more information than we usually include - such as more detailed information about where the music was played, the years it was heard, and composer/arranger information. Such as playlist might look something like this:
Main Entrance
Area Loop (1982-2000) - (28:31)
01. Energy
02. Golden Dream
03. Fun to be Free
04. Listen to the Land
05. One Little Spark
06. Magic Journeys
07. Universe of Energy
Composer:
Arrangement:
Sources: Walt Disney World Sound Archive (http://home.cfl.rr.com/wdwsongarchive/epcot82.htm)
A first step would be to determine the various playlists required. My preliminary list includes:
Spaceship Earth - Queue Loop
Earth Station - Area Loop
Universe of Energy - Area Loop, Load, Unload
Horizons - Area Loop, Queue Loop, Exit Loop
World of Motion - Area Loop, Queue Loop, Transcenter Area Loop
Journey Into Imagination - Area Loop, Attraction Queue Loop, Exit Loop, Image Works Area Loop, Magic Eye Theater Queue Loop, Magic Eye Theater Load
Land - Exterior Area Loop, Interior Area Loop, Listen to the Land Queue Loop, Kitchen Kabaret Queue Loop, Kitchen Kabaret Load, Symbiosis Queue Loop, Symbiosos Load
Living Seas - Area Loop, Queue Loop, Sea Base Alpha Area Loop
Communicore - don't even really know where to begin here
We would also want to think about the World Showcase pavilions, and there are certainly more beyond that. Would we want to include actual attraction audio information (something the Walt Disney World Sound Archive has done very well)?
Anyway, what I am getting at is this, the Internet has allowed us to collectively document the Disney theme parks, and efforts have been made on this board (an elsewhere) to do just that - I'm thinking back to the Disneyland playlists compiled quite some time ago on this discussion board. What is different is that because the park is not incredibly old, we have the opportunity to document those early years in ways we cannot do for Disneyland or the Magic Kingdom.
I am not as well connected (information wise) as many members of this board nor do I live anywhere near Epcot, but I am more than happy to compile information given to me and do some research of my own to provide additional information. Collected information could be posted here or on some other website willing to post it.
Does this sound like a do-able project? Is it even worth collectively trying? Epcot has changed drastically over the last few years (as you all know) and such a collective project may be more difficult as time wears on.
Just some ideas.
Best,
wedroy 1923
I, too, am a huge fan of the original EPCOT with many homemade CDs to prove it -- I collect all the music I can get my hands on, especially from Horizons.