[LAU] Is this the band Sky? Was: Text-based sound visualisation? Re: Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 52, Issue 32

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 22:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Hi Julien,
> > 
> > do you know the band Sky?
> >         
> >         On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 17:09 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> > >         ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: =======
> > >         http://www.juliencoder.de
> >         
> >             *  The performing band consists of a typical 70s band
> >         (drums, bass, keyboards and guitar) and orchestral instruments
> >         (piano, brass, strings, flute, clarinet and saxophone
> >             * The tracks are all reworks of classical pieces:
> >                   o Tschaikowsky's Piano concerto Nr.1 in b-flat
> >                   o Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto Nr.1 (Opus 25 in
> >         G-minor)
> >                   o Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto Nr.1 in e-flat
> >                   o Mozart's Piano Concerto KV 426
> >                   o Edward Grieg's Piano Concerto in a-minor
> >                   o an adaptation of a Paganini etude
> >             * The genre is something between progrock, funk and 70s
> >         dance music.
> > 
> > I hate this music, but I suspect it could be the band "Sky". I'm a fan
> > of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner.
> > 
> > I can recommend Mozart's Requiem (Philips Classic Productions 1991.
> > Note! I hate Mozart too, but I love this recording. The Academy of St.
> > Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner are geniuses.)
> > 
> > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_%28Band%29
> > 
> > When I was a child I bought the Sky record including Bach's Toccata and
> > Fuge d-Moll BWV 565 and I give it back to the record dealer. He gave me
> > back the money :).
> > 
> > I'm not sure, but at least it sounded very similar.
> > 
> > Hth,
> > 
> > Ralf
> 
> *lol*
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVE26_Zcoic
> http://www.dict.cc/?s=grenzdebil


Before you lapidate me, read what Miles Dewey Davis III said about such
kind of repeating etc. ;).

Tastes differ :).

Ralf