[LAU] Song release after 15 years of work

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Dec 31 19:27:55 UTC 2011


Nicely done. Amazing that you could work on it so long, presumably 
migrating platforms along the way, without losing anything!

On my stereo speakers here, it could use a bit more brightness. Things 
sound kind of murky and all mixed together.

Hartmut Noack wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> thank you all and have a good new 2012!
> 
> HZN/Berlin


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David
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