[LAU] one piece with linux, one without

[Ken Restivo]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:45:37AM -0500, bill at wolfcomposer.com wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> This is my first time posting music to this forum, though i've been reading it
> to get general advice for quite some time.
> 
> i'm finally at a point where i can start composing, again, and begin another
> electronic piece
> <https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/floorex_1-mastered1.mp3?w=AABcsbLgB3zB3JN5SkL56c00IF7A4yu7hdyjNUXqyKMj2g>
> .  If anyone wants to comment on how the production can be improved, i'm all
> ears.  i am aware of the crackling at the beginning of the piece, which surfaced
> during the mastering process and got worse when reencoding the original .wav
> file.  i've a better computer, now, and i hope that helps with some of this.
> 
> In any event, the piece was composed with Bristol, qsynth, some samples from
> vkeybd, zynaddsubfx (Yoshimi was not yet out), AMS, and Hydrogen.
> 
> The second piece
> <https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Chaccone%20Rondo.mp3?w=AABwVKhiUDxFA4QDI28AczLLEnjgCZ6hHafySly3niuThg>
> is for pipe organ.  It involves no Linux and the recording technique is
> amateurish.  The performance was a world premiere in Zug, Czechoslovakia, this
> last Sunday.  The organist is Amelia Javorina.  It's the first performance of my
> music outside of school--ever--so i'm just excited to let others know.
> 

I really like that Chaconne! The chord voicings and structure reminds me a bit of Allan Holdsworth.

-ken