On 08/11/2015 06:26 AM, Edgar Aichinger wrote: Hi Edgar, I was waiting to hear from you. :) It's just to please myself. I have no reputation or career as a composer. I have written stuff for students, nothing lately though. Alas, I have very few students into music beyond the popular styles. You're right, the Gaultiers I've heard most are Denis and Ennemond, largely thanks to the recordings by Hopkinson Smith. I thought the music was glorious and rather solemn at the same time. If I recall correctly, someone once referred to Denis's music as funereal, even in his up-tempo pieces. :) When I was a young guitarist I played through the collections by Alexander Bellow, they were my introduction to player/composers such as Corbetta, Brayssing, and Foscarini (L'Academico Caliginoso). To my ears, tonal harmony was in its formative years for those composers, its formal implications hadn't been ironed out yet, so there's more freedom in the treatment of the chords per se, rather than in the overall progression. That "structured randomness" you hear in my music is a far reflection of the impression that music made on me then. Less predictability in the progressions, often striking use of suspensions and ornamentation, an apparent love of rich chords for their own sake - but please bear in mind that these impressions are just that, not the result of any analysis or particular study. I was also inspired by Smith's performance style, especially in the pieces from La Rhetorique des Dieux. IIRC he had a broad sound, very flexible tempo (very musical though), and a gorgeous tone. Of course, the Baroque lutes are vastly different beasts than their Renaissance ancestors, and until the Smith recordings I'd never heard the instrument. See above. :) They're from a collection of early instruments in GIG format, by Bolder Sounds. Not free, but inexpensive and very nicely recorded. The collection includes a sample that passes from flesh to nails via the mod wheel, I haven't played with that one yet. The sample I used is a flesh-only recording, it's still pretty bright though. A rare pleasure. For lute and guitar music, the early Baroque is a fascinating period, but not many classical music fans know much about it. I've always assumed that the Baroque lute was somehow more difficult to play, compared to the Renaissance instrument. What do you think ? Ah, and now I have to reveal my secret. It isn't composed as a duet, it's a single track, written in such a way that the music just turned into a duet, but it's played by a single instance of the instrument. As I listened to evolve it I realized it was quickly turning into something unplayable by a single performer, and so it became a duet. :) Perhaps at some point I'll separate parts into a true duet, but that will have to wait. I'd like to continue writing more pieces for the instrument, perhaps adding more sections in a conventional suite of dance movements (coranto, sarabande, gigue, etc). A MIDI file is do-able, but alas again, Bitwig doesn't export the tempo changes, and there are a few of them in the piece. Still, it's easy to create the file, I'll send it if you want to look at it as-is. Thanks for listening and for the comments. I hoped you'd have something to say about it. :) Best always, dp

So start your download normally, (assuming Firefox) right-click on the download and click Copy Download Link. Paste this link into wget (you will have to manually assign the name) and then feel free to cancel the download from within Firefox. HTH Dale.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 02:25:23AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: You can use youtube-dl with soundcloud. I have a script that goes something like the following: $ vlc $(youtube-dl -gf http_mp3_128_url $(xclip -o)) so that I only have to select a link and then run the script, which is assigned to a keyboard shortcut. Soundcloud never seemed to work on any of the linux machines that I've tried. BTW, nice piece. Keep them coming Dave. Did you manually laid the notes down on a piano roll? Have a good one, Fede

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 03:10:53PM +0000, Kaza Kore wrote: You can usually choose between the 128kbps mp3 and the full wav version, but maybe that's only when downloads are enabled. I'm not sure, but could it be that 128kbps is soundcloud's default bitrate?

On 08/11/2015 11:08 AM, Fede Galland wrote: Thanks ! Yes, the notes were entered one by one in Bitwig's MIDI editor. Best, dp