Re: OT: Composing (jara: My girlfriend is a conlanger!)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 15, 2003, 18:21 |
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Jan van Steenbergen/H.S.Teoh wrote:
fix
> that! I am very eager to hear it ;)
Yes, please fix!! Motion seconded!!! Teoh-- I loved the 2 pieces I could
hear. (A year or two back, you, a young Finn and others were posting MP3's--
I still have the emails, and now that I can actually hear MP3s I'll have to
go back and listen)
>
> BTW Did you record it on a Yamaha PSR-SQ? That's what I have been working
with
> most of the time, and the sound is somewhat similar.
This is a problem for me-- I suspect a good instrument like the Yamaha is a
bit expensive, and there's no guarantee I'd use it very often. (Like the
Steinway I've inherited from an aunt.) But it would certainly be fun to
play around with. I have an old, fairly versatile Casio keyboard, but it's
not computer compatible.
> I am curious how you transformed the midi files into .MP3 files.
As am I. A friend is an avid MP3 collector/trader, but he's usually too
busy to tutor me. He's supposed to be putting some kind of MIDI thing on CD
for me; I checked out Noteworthy Composer mentioned by Danny Wier-- it
looked useful, though terribly complex to my aging brain.
I have composed exactly 2-1/2 pieces in my lifetime:
-- a national anthem thingy that faute de mieux I call the Ruritanian N.A.--
it won't do for my conworld as it's thoroughly within the Western Eur.
tradition.
-- a hymn tune.
-- a partial setting of a long Neruda poem, (small chorus, soloists, small
ensemble) occasioned by the almost simultaneous revolution against Allende
in 1973 and the poet's death shortly thereafter.
but then I heard a concert with music of this professor's
> students. My God! I can't remember which piece was the ugliest, but I
remember
> that everything on the program was equally pompous, disgusting, ugly, and
> would-be avantgardistic.
During the 70s/80s in Ann Arbor, I went to a lot of the UM Music School's
(grad) student concerts. William Albright was one of the teachers-- a
brilliant organist but IMO a horrible composer/role model. George Crumb was
in residence for a while, so everyone sounded like him during that period.
Electronic stuff was big then too-- some of it good, most of it embarassing.
There was also a young man interested in phonetics who performed his "songs"
involving amazing oral/vocal acrobatics, though one did not particularly
want to hear them a second time.....
(In the event this interesting discussion goes off-list--as it probably
should :-)-- I'd appreciate it if you'd include me as a CC from time to
time)
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