I downloaded and listened to http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-1.ogg and http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-2.ogg . They both sound really good. blues-in-c-1.ogg: Sounds very much like a real grand piano being recorded professionally. Very nice. blues-in-c-2.ogg: Sounds a bit more like MIDI. I don't hear as much expression from the flute. If a synth is being used, it sounds VERY nice and lifelike. By the way, which license are you planning to release these under? -Jordan On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 00:57 -0600, Steve D wrote: > Hello all-- > > It feels good to finally get back to composing and recording a little. > I've been working on an old piece I never finished. The draft audio > files are here: > > Blues in C 1 > OGG > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-1.ogg > > MP3 > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/mp3/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-1.mp3 > > Usually I record the audio directly into Ardour or Audacity, but this > time I recorded the MIDI performance instead, into Rosegarden (I also like > Muse very much), then played back the slightly cleaned up MIDI file and > recorded the audio produced by the tone generator (a rack-mounted Roland > Fantom XR) that was being "played" by the MIDI file, which is here: > > Blues in C 1, MIDI (standard MIDI file type 1) > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/midi/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-1_version-2.mid > > A much older version of Blues in C 1, MIDI file: > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/midi/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-1_version-1.mid > > My Blues in C 2, a more recent composition that I finished and recorded > before finishing Blues in C 1: > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-2.ogg > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/mp3/stephen-doonan_blues-in-c-2.mp3 > > Both of these "blues in C major" were created with one original idea: to > take a standard, bare-bones, dirt-simple blues progression in C > (tonic/subdominant/dominant "1, 4, 5" song) and try to do something > "interesting" with it, but retaining the essential skeleton of the blues > in C major. In Blues in C 1, I aimed for putting in a different "passing > chord" for every beat of every bar, only briefly landing on C, F and G > at their mandatory times. For Blues in C 2, the more recent composition > but the first to be completed and recorded, the idea and intent remained > the same, but the technique I used was to have a bass line that shifted > all around the C, F and G which formed the piece's structure, and that > technique allowed for some interesting melodic composition. > > Anyway, I hope everybody's doing well-- > > Steve Doonan > New Mexico US
