Re: [LAU] Piano Zero

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 07:35:36AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Variations for solo sequenced piano :
>
> https://soundcloud.com/davephillips69/piano-zero
>
> A better-sounding FLAC-encoded version is also available :
>
> http://linux-sound.org/audio/PianoZero.flac
>
> This piece is a through-composed set of variations on an 8-note
> theme. It's 32+ minutes long, not strictly tonal but not 12-tone
> either. Probably not easy listening, so feel free to skip it if your
> tastes tend more towards Yanni than to Cecil Taylor.
>
> It's not currently wholly playable by a soloist. It's also not
> completely polished, this version is a second draft uploaded for
> comments. Notation to follow sometime next year.
>

This is a great peice!

If you're looking for comments, I'd say use a better piano sample, something that sounds more like a real piano and less like a digital sample. And with good stereo panning. Also place it in a room instead of a digital reverb, maybe in a convolution of a concert hall (I like the Pori samples). And I also think it'd be improved a lot by adding velocity! Dynamics. Nothing sounds more like digital sampling than all the notes at constant velocity. It's also wearying to listen to without dynNAMics, knowwhatI'msayin?

With that, I think it'd sound like an actual performance.

Ruth, after all, is sleeping.

-ken
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
Received on Thu Nov 20 12:15:02 2014