4 Feb
2016
4 Feb
'16
4:46 p.m.
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It's great to be able to type at the computer again and communicate a
little with the international Linux-oriented audo/music community, and
to practice piano after a long break due to cancer and cancer treatment.
My right arm and hand were disabled, so typing at the computer and
playing piano has been part of the therapy in trying to recover as much
use as possible of my right arm.
I'm a long-time musician and fairly long-time Linux user (since the late
1990s). I've been grateful over the years to be able to use Ardour
(digital audio / MIDI) and Qtractor and RoseGarden (MIDI / digital
audio), Jack, Jamin and the many wonderful audio/music related apps for
Linux.
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My current music work environment--
Computer: Linux operating system
Keyboard: Yamaha CP5 88-key digital piano
Sound Modules: Roland Integra-7, Fantom XR
Rack gear: Rane mixers (SM 26B, SM 82), DBX patchbay
Audio / MIDI interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i4
Apps: Ardour (audio recording / editing), Qtractor (MIDI recording /
editing)
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I've uploaded some recent recordings of some of my original material to
Soundcloud (performed as well as I can manage at this time)--
https://soundcloud.com/stephendoonan/
--and am so happy to be composing again and to be recovering some of my
ability to play the instrument of my choice, and am happy to be able to
communicate with other people in the Linux-oriented audio and music
community again. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Steve Doonan
New Mexico, US
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4 Feb
4 Feb
5:46 p.m.
Le 04/02/2016 16:45, Stephen Doonan a écrit :
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It's great to be able to type at the computer again and communicate a
little with the international Linux-oriented audo/music community, and
to practice piano after a long break due to cancer and cancer treatment.
My right arm and hand were disabled, so typing at the computer and
playing piano has been part of the therapy in trying to recover as much
use as possible of my right arm.
I'm a long-time musician and fairly long-time Linux user (since the late
1990s). I've been grateful over the years to be able to use Ardour
(digital audio / MIDI) and Qtractor and RoseGarden (MIDI / digital
audio), Jack, Jamin and the many wonderful audio/music related apps for
Linux.
=======================================
My current music work environment--
Computer: Linux operating system
Keyboard: Yamaha CP5 88-key digital piano
Sound Modules: Roland Integra-7, Fantom XR
Rack gear: Rane mixers (SM 26B, SM 82), DBX patchbay
Audio / MIDI interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i4
Apps: Ardour (audio recording / editing), Qtractor (MIDI recording /
editing)
=======================================
I've uploaded some recent recordings of some of my original material to
Soundcloud (performed as well as I can manage at this time)--
https://soundcloud.com/stephendoonan/
--and am so happy to be composing again and to be recovering some of my
ability to play the instrument of my choice, and am happy to be able to
communicate with other people in the Linux-oriented audio and music
community again. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Steve Doonan
New Mexico, US
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Thank you for your powerful message.
Your Music is wonderful to me.
- Benoît from France.
5:56 p.m.
On 02/04/2016 10:46 AM, Benoît Rouits wrote:
Le 04/02/2016 16:45, Stephen Doonan a écrit :
Hi Steve,
Glad to hear you're doing better. Just wanted to say that I've had
some of your songs in my playlist for quite a while. You're an
incredible musician and writer. Glad you're back.
Best Wishes,
Jan Depner
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It's great to be able to type at the computer again and communicate a
little with the international Linux-oriented audo/music community, and
to practice piano after a long break due to cancer and cancer treatment.
My right arm and hand were disabled, so typing at the computer and
playing piano has been part of the therapy in trying to recover as much
use as possible of my right arm.
I'm a long-time musician and fairly long-time Linux user (since the late
1990s). I've been grateful over the years to be able to use Ardour
(digital audio / MIDI) and Qtractor and RoseGarden (MIDI / digital
audio), Jack, Jamin and the many wonderful audio/music related apps for
Linux.
=======================================
My current music work environment--
Computer: Linux operating system
Keyboard: Yamaha CP5 88-key digital piano
Sound Modules: Roland Integra-7, Fantom XR
Rack gear: Rane mixers (SM 26B, SM 82), DBX patchbay
Audio / MIDI interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i4
Apps: Ardour (audio recording / editing), Qtractor (MIDI recording /
editing)
=======================================
I've uploaded some recent recordings of some of my original material to
Soundcloud (performed as well as I can manage at this time)--
https://soundcloud.com/stephendoonan/
--and am so happy to be composing again and to be recovering some of my
ability to play the instrument of my choice, and am happy to be able to
communicate with other people in the Linux-oriented audio and music
community again. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Steve Doonan
New Mexico, US
---
Thank you for your powerful message.
Your Music is wonderful to me.
- Benoît from France.
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6:06 p.m.
Hi Steve,
Good to see your post, and that you are on the mend.
Just followed your link. Some very nice work there.
--
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.
5 Feb
5 Feb
12:16 p.m.
Welcome back, Stephen!
At some point I noticed the silence and hoped for the most harmless
reason ... well, good to read you're recovering. I immediately
recognized Arabesque, which has a place deep down in my library, as do
our collaborations, where you added music to my noise, some blues,
samba, lonesome buttes and herky-jerk :)
--
Thorsten Wilms
thorwil's design for free software:
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/
6 Feb
6 Feb
11:55 p.m.
On 02/04/2016 04:45 PM, Stephen Doonan wrote:
Thanks. Nice stuff you have there!
--
Atte
http://atte.dk http://a773.dk
7 Feb
7 Feb
11:41 a.m.
I just wanted to acknowledge and thank everyone for their friendly
responses to my recent reintroduction to the LAU email list: Rui Nuno
Capela, Benoit Rouits, Jan Depner, Will Godfrey, Thorsten Wilms and Atte.
Although my right arm was disabled by the cancer I had, that cancer is
continues to be in remission for the time being and I am slowly
regaining the use of the hand and fingers, for which I am grateful.
To Rui, a formal thank you for being such an important presence and
contributor within the Linux audio/music community, and for being such a
warm an interesting person.
To Thorsten Wilms, I enjoyed trying to create harmonic and melodic
content to accompany your creatively-chopped and mixed ambient and
natural-sound rhythmic tracks so much those years ago that I tried to
create a few tracks using some of the same concepts with free sound
samples (the Internet has become such a great repository for all kinds
of resources), but my pitiful attempts were grossly inferior to yours.
Thank you for letting me collaborate on a few tracks.
Steve
--
My Music: https://soundcloud.com/stephendoonan/
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