[linux-audio-user] Made with Linux

[Cesare Marilungo]

Hi, I've just joined the list.

This track is beautiful. I can't stop listening to it.

I understand the critics on the drum part. But I have to disagree. The 
drum pattern - but also the piano - is a bit naif, it's ingenuous. 
Therefore it is beautiful. Working on it would be going in the direction 
of a more commercial (some might say alternative) production, which 
would be silly.

We don't need expensive software (and hardware) to make music anymore, 
we don't need a publisher anymore. So we don't need to adhere to some 
silly commercial cliches anymore.

Cesare Marilungo




Thorsten Wilms wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:30:38AM +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
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>>David, the piano theme makes me think of children smiling, of age, of a 
>>tree's beauty. To me it is very, very moving. I think part of that is 
>>that the "piano" is deeply anchored in our acoustic and social world, 
>>like you hear a century when you hear a piano. And part of it is the 
>>beauty of simple things, like a child that smiles at you. Like the 
>>movement of your theme. I'm listening over and over.
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>No children or trees here, but it's sure nice. Allthough I would 
>shorten the track a bit.
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>>Another thing, bluntly put: The drums suck so very hard that they manage 
>>to make me cry after all. Know what I think? That drum-sequencers are 
>>just wrong. They do strange things to people. They did to the 80s.
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>I like obviously sequenced drums in many cases. But here the drums 
>have an entirely different feel from the piano. A bit slow for that, but 
>kick an claps still say "party" to me. That doesn't make the fact they're
>sequenced the problem, since drums can be programmed to match any kind 
>of feel.
>David: my advice would be to listen to some ballads, maybe older stuff 
>from Mariah Carey and to analyze the drums regarding sound and rhythmic 
>characteristics.
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>Thorsten Wilms
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