Paul S. writes:
>>Any MOTM it that? The strings sounded very 'VA'.<
Not likely since that recording is from 1977. Even I didn't own a synth
back then.. I'm surprised Dana Countryman didn't recognize it and spill the
beans. But if he had, I had another synthesized version ready:
http://home.att.net/~elhardt/Waltz_Of_The_Flowers_2.mp3Koos Fockens writes:
>>Wendy Carlos style ..... and look forward to your (constructive)
comments<<
Well if Wendy had done this, it would have been played expressively and by
hand. There would have been 100 different timbres flying by, each one
synthesized appropriately to emphasize certain musical lines in Carlos'
particular style with timbres we've never heard before, and sounds would
have been bouncing between speakers. The whole piece would have been very
colorful and it would have danced and nobody else would be able to match its
quality. In yours, there's only something like 3 timbres for the entire
piece, and it's robotically sequenced. So it's perhaps not quite fair to
Wendy to say it's in Wendy Carlos style. But I did see in a later post you
mentioned trying to add some dynamics to it. Personally though, I've heard
so many people play that particular piece of music on every imaginable
instrument including synths (and also Bolero), that they're so overplayed,
it would be nice if people didn't keep going down the same path time after
time. There's lots of great pieces that have never been transcribed to the
synth.
Dana Countryman writes:
>>Jean-Jacques Perrey and I get to do that song, onstage every night, when
we do our shows, and it's an amazing tune....<<
Ah, you've revived my anger. :-) When I bought the two CD set the Best of
Perrey and Kingsley, I was supposed to be getting their two full earlier
records on there. But the very last piece and one of my favorites "Pioneers
of the Stars" was replaced by that damn "Flight of the Bumblebee". Then
later they came out with a newer CD set, and Pioneers of the Stars is right
where it should be. I'm still fuming. Perhaps at some point I can find
somebody who can MP3 a copy of Pioneers from the new CD set and email it to
me.
-Elhardt
"2005 represents the date of the event that sets things off....The date
stuck out more than the month or year, but I think the month was August and
the year was 2005" - Actual text from May of 2002 when the late John
Mitchell (Konkuro) informed me that on the 20th something of August 2005 the
US would be hit by a major event. I waited over 3 years to see if anything
would happen. Then on 29th of August 2005 the US was hit by its most
devastating disaster in its history, Katrina. Score 1 for Konkuro.