[LAU] Really new music: an orchestral poem - no joke this time

[Julien Claassen]

Hello everyone!
   It had been sitting here, since there was one last instrument to add. But 
since Nama is changng a great deal right now, preparing for the next stage, 
I'd rather not touch the piece. So dear friend, who is not in yet, excuse me. 
It will come!
   So the music first:
http://juliencoder.de/nama/soit_il_la_vie.ogg
http://juliencoder.de/nama/soit_il_la_vie.mp3
   This is the last piece of the album of almost the same title "Soit-Il La 
Vie: Intense, Aimante?" It was recorded in december and january. First about 
the people helping me on this: There's the unknown doner of the flute - yet to 
come -, who also did a lot of listening for me throughout the album. there's 
S. Massy, who also lent me a pair of ears. There was the great FA and two of 
his students helping me with the Italian bits. My pronounciation - especially
  in old Italian - is not good. :-) And all throughout there is Her!
   It really is an orchestral poem, the basis being a sonnet. Each section is 
dedicated to a couplet of this poem, trying as best as possible to represent 
the contents. Either using a translation of letters into music, using sounds 
as such to mirror mentioned images (the bell). Oh yes thanks to Fons and a few 
other again for pointing me towards those websites dedicated to the 
synthetical creation of bells. And then of course there's is harmony and 
rhythm trying to convey meaning. It's all spaced throughout this piece, 
whatever fits best, whereever it is needed.
   Instruments used were the wonderful gigatron sample-library by q based on 
the samples from Taiji-guy - if I remember correctly, a real triangle and 
again my anonymous doner with a slide guitar. I'm so sorry! There's the 
nordlead for the bowed contrabass, a string sample from my Korg synth and a 
Solina String Ensemble sample as a gigasample.
   As software Nama played the main roll - as ever! Thank you very much again 
Joel for the tremendous work you put into it! Then there was LinuxSampler, 
which also played a heavy part in it. Some LADSPA plugins for processing and 
Fons' jconvolver, without which I couldn't work neither. I can't remember the 
IRs used for this.
   There is also one musical quotation from Leo Delibes ballet Sylvia, which is 
connected to the textual citation.
   Last but not least: the finished album consists of: "Shout - the song tat 
shall", "Whisper - Since In Love, Verity Is Altering", "Lullaby -Singng In 
Lullabies, Vowing In Adoration", "Raw Magic", "A Good Companion" and "Soit-il 
la Vie: Intense, Aimante". The full album wold also comprise the original 
poem, but you'll have to excuse me on that point. :-) the dedication of this 
album is a simple one, since I'm not clever and only know a few tricks of the 
art, which I tend to use over and over again. :-( I say: let it be a start, a 
first chapter, that may have interesting chapters following it. Thanks to 
everyone, who showed patience with me, answering stupid and clever questions, 
listening, playing and contributing in any other way. That of course includes 
very much all the developers from around here. You know wyo you are and 
everybody else does too. :-)
   Futuristically yours
           Julien

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