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2015/10/30 20:50:10 (permalink)

Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques

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This is a composition for virtual winds, making use of 11 VSL winds.   It's a playful, bouncy, contrapuntal piece and is 4:38 in length.  
 
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Some of the artistic and computer techniques it employs are:
contrapuntal virtual wind composition in staff view
MIDI sequencing in event list
virtual orchestration and balancing of musical parts (mixing)
rendering to stereo wave file
signal processing of wave file
 
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post edited by jsg - 2015/10/31 13:10:42
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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/02 16:42:24 (permalink)
    Nicely done, Jerry!  If I hadn't known up front that these were virtual instruments, I never would have guessed it was other than a performance by studio musicians.
     
    Although I must admit that whenever I hear a composition for a wind ensemble, I'm unfavorably reminded of the educational films we had to watch in grade school that inevitably used copious amounts of such instrumentation for the soundtrack.  But then that just gives you a clue as to how old I really am. 
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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/02 17:30:59 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby TheMaartian 2015/11/02 18:51:25
    Bonus points for using the word "contrapuntal" in a forum post. May be a first.
     


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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/02 18:41:00 (permalink)
    VERY enjoyable!  And was a thrill to follow along with the printed score!
     

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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/03 16:22:41 (permalink)
    bitflipper
    Bonus points for using the word "contrapuntal" in a forum post. May be a first.



    Not even close.  Google "contrapuntal site:forum.cakewalk.com" to see what I mean. 
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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/12 19:37:11 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Mesh 2015/11/20 10:35:15
    Nice piece Jerry! Thanks for posting the score too. I love to "see" your work.
     
    No big deal on the word "contrapuntal" - everyone knows that's referring to when it's 4th down and your team kicks the football in the wrong direction. ;-)

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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/16 22:11:35 (permalink)
    Cool stuff Jerry, how did you approach humanizing the sequences? Any minute tempo fluctuations? I might 'conduct' the piece to create a tempo map. It can very helpful.

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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/17 19:37:12 (permalink)
    Amine Belkhouche
    Cool stuff Jerry, how did you approach humanizing the sequences? Any minute tempo fluctuations? I might 'conduct' the piece to create a tempo map. It can very helpful.



    You can read an interview with Jerry, in which he talks about this and much more, here:
     
    http://soundbytesmag.net/jerrygerberinterview/
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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/17 19:44:26 (permalink)
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    Amine Belkhouche
    Cool stuff Jerry, how did you approach humanizing the sequences? Any minute tempo fluctuations? I might 'conduct' the piece to create a tempo map. It can very helpful.



    You can read an interview with Jerry, in which he talks about this and much more, here:
     
    http://soundbytesmag.net/jerrygerberinterview/




    I appreciate it!

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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/17 20:45:49 (permalink)
    Nice.
     
    Speaking of 4th down...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0vHpeUO5mw

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    Re: Composition & Electronic Music Production Techniques 2015/11/19 19:34:27 (permalink)
    Amine Belkhouche
    Cool stuff Jerry, how did you approach humanizing the sequences? Any minute tempo fluctuations? I might 'conduct' the piece to create a tempo map. It can very helpful.




    I sequence.  I'm human. Therefore my sequences are humanized!   ;>)
     
    Putting a lot of detail into the event list in regard to note length, envelope, velocity, location relative to the beat and lots of program/articulation changes.   Yes, there are often many tempo changes, some very slight, in my compositions.
     
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