[LAU] [New music]: With an aching heart...

[Will Godfrey]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:28:23 +0100 (CET)
"Jeanette C." <julien at mail.upb.de> wrote:

>Hey hey,
>...is the title of the new piece. Here's the music:
>http://juliencoder.de/nama/with_an_aching_heart.ogg
>http://juliencoder.de/nama/with_an_aching_heart.mp3
>
>What is it? It ended up as a rearrangement of parts of J.S. Bach's fugue in 
>Eflat minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I and Musorgsky's The old 
>castle (fropm pictures at an exhibition) with a few changes, played on lovely 
>synths and vocalised by me. Inspired by Clannad's (Theme for) Harry's game, 
>though, alas, much darker. Still, the message remains: show a little kindness. 
>Not because of the season (you've seen me Scrooge'ing), but just because.
>
>What's used: external hardware: DSI Prophet-12 for strings, pad, flute-like 
>sound and one choir. Arturia MiniBrute for basses.
>Software: the wonderful Gigatron, free Mellotron library in GigaStudio format, 
>a commercial Slina (string ensemble) and carillon library, also in Gig format. 
>Jconvolver for the reverb on the vocals. Recording and mixing in Nama with the 
>hlelp of many LADSPA plugins. So thanks to everyone who made this possible! 
>Love you guys.
>
>Feedback is welcome. :)
>
>With kindness,
>
>Jeanette

This is very impressive, and to me, well performed and presented. However it
is such a sad tune, and although this fits the title perfectly, it's not
something I'd want to hear too often!

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.