Re: OT: Composing (jara: My girlfriend is a conlanger!)

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:18:07PM +0100, Christian Thalmann wrote:
> First of all, congratulations on your level of professionalism!
Oh, thank you. At least it's good to know my perfectionist attention to
detail does pay off sometimes. :-)

> Those really sound like something you could hear on Classic Radio
> or the airplane in-flight program.  ;-)
Like I said, the lay people love my music, but the professionals just
smile and nod and walk away.

> What application are you using to set them?  I did some simple (read:
> crude to the extreme) work on ConcertWare back on my old Performa, but
> it won't run on my newer machine.  Do you know a decent free music
> setting program, preferably for OS X?  =P
OS X... hmm, now that's totally out of my depth.

I wouldn't recommend what I use myself, either. For one thing, it is
abandoned software (at least, that version of it---the supposedly newer
and better version is still a long way from non-trivial usage). For
another, it is buggy, unstable, and generally a pain to work with. The
only reason I put up with all its inconveniences (understatement of the
year) is that (1) I really wanted to hear how my orchestrations would
sound and (2) I wanted to hear my piano pieces without needing to sit at
the piano.  But of course, I've since realized that MIDI is a completely
useless indicator of orchestration quality, since it completely doesn't
correspond with the sound of a real orchestra.

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> > [1] Such as: http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/mus/aml-serenity.mp3
>
> I get a 403: No Permission error here.
Sorry... this should be fixed now. My own negligence. :-(

> > [3] Such as: http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/mus/Am6_8_2.mp3
>
> Hmmm.  I'm not too fond of the theme, as it starts out.  A bit
> repetitive.  It gets more spectacular towards the end.  Anyway,
> it's cooler than anything I've done so far.  ;-)
Yeah, I'm still struggling with the repetitiveness of it. It's *supposed*
to be that way; the challenge is to orchestrate in a way that doesn't
sound tedious or boring.

> > [4] The one of which I'm most proud being the Sonatina in E-flat major:
> > http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/mus/Eb4_4.3.mp3
>
> Ooh!  This one rules!  Totally professional, if you ask me.  I'm
> sure you'll find a decent pianist to play it.  =)
Don't I wish...


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