On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:57:10 -0500 Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/16/2016 05:22 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: > > At the end of last year I actually had some time to just sit and play. I have a > > two keyboard setup so had the lower one driving 'Ghost Ensemble' on CH1 and the > > upper one with 'Angel Piano' on CH2. > > > > After a bit of random pootling around I just hit on the first phrase of this > > and just knew I had to do something with it. I always have Rosegarden set up > > ready, so just hit record and ran with it... for about 4 minutes. > > > > Later, I put it up on Soundcloud, with just the start and finish trimmed, and > > titled Improv2. That's when the fun started. I just could *not* think of a > > suitable title. I also thought I should tidy it up a bit, but apart from > > removing one really duff note nothing else seemed to really need attention. > > > > Looking through my photos I found one that seemed to fit the mood, and added it > > to the Soundcloud file. This was of an abandoned trackway, that is about a > > mile long and in some placed barely passable even on foot. Still I couldn't > > think of a title. > > > > Eventually it came to me quite out of the blue, so here it is fully formed :) > > > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Quietly_Fading_Away.ogg > > The most important thing, I think, in writing any piece of music, > whether it's instrumental or with vocals/lyrics, is to engender an > emotion in the listener. You've succeeded, beautifully. I really > enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing it. > > Cheers, > Jan Thanks Jan. I'm glad it reaches you. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
