Re: [linux-audio-user] Very new and unfinished

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:10:32 +0100 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)freenet.de> écrivait: I've been listening to some Chinese music recently and one characteristic that's found here and there is the sliding of many notes towards what they end up to be. Like when painting a wall and doing a faux finish: a base coloured coat is applied and then a paler coat is put using a rag or somesuch. The target note is known but the instrument works its way towards it. Surely this is due to the nature of some of the traditional Chinese instruments. Apart from that, throwing a good amount of semitones would at least convey a cliché Middle Eastern mood. That'd be fun with the Alps background. I think Hubert von Goisern did some mix like that. Al