Excerpts from Julien Claassen's message of 2011-08-09 20:54:26 +0200: > Hello Philipp! > Thanks, what an enthusiastic critique. :-) What can I say? I suppose it just > takes getting used to that form of music and then you can bend it to your > will. Remember, that this was preceded by a few years of music and believe me, > there was some experimentation with not so good results there too. :-) The thing is that I can hardly play a simple one minute song on the piano without obvious mistakes and even then I'm never quite happy with the rhythm or pronunciation. This 15 minute recording is practically perfect, except for this one spot that might well be intentional (appears for example at exactly 11:00). > The crickets are sampled, but then I loaded them into csound and moved them > in space a bit. You may be picky with your drum sound but I'm picky with my nature sound, so I just had to investigate. I went to a field where I know that there are lots of crickets, but it was recently mowed and there was less going on. Anyway, I noticed that most crickets around here chirp for 1-2 seconds with longer breaks, similar to the ones in the background around minute 3. I walked around some more and found one that indeed chirped similar to the one near the end of the song. The little chirper chirped very loud and for a minute straight! The weirdest thing was that despite trying for a while I couldn't quite locate him. I gave up with my best guess being that the little chirper was sitting in a tree, laughing his antennas off while watching me twist and turn my head. The sample on wikipedia is weird, it's the first cricket I heard that couldn't chirp straight :) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Field_cricket_Gryllus_pennsylvanicus.ogg) > As to the recording side, this is all due to Nama. I had to delve a little > deeper into Nama's features to realise it and it was fun! Using loads of new > features at the time to make it possible. It would have needed super-human > strength to do it without Nama and only good knowledge of Nama to do as I did. > :-) > Well, I didn't fnd out about the name, until I wanted to upload a copy > before hand, for a friend to listen to, that I noticed the acronym. :-) I > couldn't resist. :-) > Warm regards > Julien I tend to forget a bit about the possibilities of multitrack recording, especially that nama is very capable. Oh, and I have a hard time imagining this song with vocals. Thanks for sharing this song, from those I heard from you so far I like this one the best. Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
