Holiday greetings

[mgj32]

Outstanding, David. Also watched your interview, and am amazed there is so much talent among 6,000.

Merry Christmas,
mgj

[dj]

Another holiday season and this year I'll change the pace with a bit of Bach.

Last summer I wanted some electronic Baroque for a production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid. Of course, the seminal source for electronic baroque music is Wendy Carlos' Switched On Bach album, or its follow ups. However, rather than "borrow" her work, I decided I'd do my own switched on album.

Here are three pieces by J.S. Bach, one by G.F. Handel and one by Claudio Monteverdi.

Because Ms. Carlos had the restriction of creating her music one line at a time on multi-track tape, I decided to restrict myself to one instrument and the built-in sounds on it. These tracks are not quite General Midi. If you have a Yamaha XG instrument, you'll hear all the proper voices. If you have a GM instrument, you'll hear something pretty close.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

David

[dj]

The final Bach piece was going to be the full Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, but it seems to be too big to upload (2.8 megs), so here's another bit of Handel, from the Water Music.

It's subtitled Louison's Dance because we used it for a musical interlude that a girl danced with a nearly life-size doll. A lot of fun.

Happy Holidays.

David

[rrayner]

David,

Thank you for sharing some very interesting treatments of these classical pieces. I particularly like the "Air on a G String". I had a very limited exposure to classical music when growing up, being more oriented toward big band and jazz. The first time I heard "Air" was by a group called the Swingle Singers. The piece has been a favorite of mine ever since, in any format.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.

Ralph

[Sherry C]

Hi David,

Thanks for sharing these arrangements! As always, some very interesting treatments - the instrumentation changes, and the panning and other effects that I'm sure made some great use of your theatre's sound system. I listened through these with my headphones, so that I'd catch the interesting bits You can be sure that I'll be listening again (and again and...)!

Small note: I had to change the channel assignment on 13 Bach Prelude No 2 so that each staff had its own channel for the stereo effect to work correctly - in case anyone else has the same issue I did initially of it cutting out).

Also, if you'd still like to post the larger file, please try again. I've made some adjustments and hopefully you'll be able to post the full file now.

Merry Christmas to all!
Sherry

[mgj32]

Hi Dj,
Love the sound of the Monteverdi. The suggestion of voices used as instruments gives it an almost hypnotic effect. All are interesting, and I thoroughly enjoy them.

Happy Holidays to all.

mgj

[dj]

Thank you, all.

Sherry, I've tried to upload the Brandenburg again, but still no luck. Even though the limit says it's now 4 GIGAbytes! Can't think why there might be a problem.