Re: [LAU] Song release after 15 years of work

2011/12/31 Hartmut Noack <zettberlin@email-addr-hidden>

> Hello LAU-people,
>
> I have released a song I had begun working with in the mids of the 1990ies:
>
> The Syrens Of Spring
> How Weary I am -- 1995-2011
>
> http://lapoc.de/demos/the_sos-**how_weary_iam-21122011.flac<http://lapoc.de/demos/the_sos-how_weary_iam-21122011.flac>
>
> it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
>
> I worked on at least 100 days on the piece, sometimes 6 h, sometimes 15
> min in most cases 1-2 h. For every minute on every track in the project I
> had 5 minutes erased. Some 5-minute takes are edited down to 3 seconds.
> Other parts (such as some of the vocals) are 1st takes.
> While I worked on the piece Linux Audio made great progress. I opened the
> project-file in all versions of Ardour since 2004. I wrote 4 articles about
> Ardour for german Linux-Magazines most of them using screenshots of the how
> weary project. Such screenshots also appeared in articles about 64Studio,
> Ubuntu Studio, Suse/JAD and other Linux-distros I wrote about in that time.
>
> The software never failed me. If there was trouble, it was never
> catastrophic -- most incidents where related to plug-ins badly written or
> abused or both. But bugs never destroyed more than a few minutes of
> recordings and the project itself never was endangered by some serious
> mistakes of Ardour -- since there where no mistakes of that category. The
> same goes for Guitarix and Alsa Modular Synth that where my main standalone
> sound generators for the project.
>
> I spent a important part of my life with this piece of music. Two of my
> children are borne in that time. The colour of my hair changed from brown
> with some grayish strands to gray with some darker strands and a good deal
> of white and the length of these hairs swayed between 30 centimeters in the
> 1990ies and 2 centimeters in 2005. My weight from 89 Kilogramm up to
> unacceptable 108 at the LAC in Berlin and now down to more acceptable 91K.
> I smoked 30 cigarettes a day then quit smoking for 2 years then started
> again and changed to e-cigaretts in the end. I used computers for
> office-work like everybody, then became a power-user, switched to GNU/Linux
> and became a modest web-programmer in the end. I have seen and experienced
> many many things in this time and I am thankfull and glad to have seen and
> experienced all this.
>
> I hereby give this tune to these people: enjoy my sound-installation by
> the name of "How weary I am" for 8 minutes, 8 seconds and 8 hundreds of a
> second (this is really, really the result of the export, I did nothing,
> none, zero to provoke these figures. I swear it!).
>
> I thank you all and especially the musicians that helped me to do it (Fred
> and Christoph) and all the brilliant programmers that made the software I
> worked with and give it to the world under a free license.
>
> Get the complete story and the list of the software used here:
>
> http://lapoc.de/zblog/?page_**id=116 <http://lapoc.de/zblog/?page_id=116>
>
>
> thank you all and have a good new 2012!
>
> HZN/Berlin
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What a story! :) It reminds me a little to Lou Reed at the beginning, maybe
because of the tone of your voice. Quite an eclectic song.

Thanks for sharing.

-- 
Carlos sanchiavedraz
* Musix GNU+Linux
  http://www.musix.es

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