On 07/16/2016 05:22 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: The most important thing, I think, in writing any piece of music, whether it's instrumental or with vocals/lyrics, is to engender an emotion in the listener. You've succeeded, beautifully. I really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing it. Cheers, Jan

vangelis might be proud (though he'd have probably added two more lines, and played them live :) Very nice. just as a wild and possibly off-base suggestion, you might enjoy checking out mik300z's vangelis covers, not necessarily for the music, but for the videos that show his "technique" which isn't particular special, but things do become quite clear. My favorite of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G56lgN28_4 You can click on his name to see the rest. On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk> wrote: > At the end of last year I actually had some time to just sit and play. I > have a > two keyboard setup so had the lower one driving 'Ghost Ensemble' on CH1 > and the > upper one with 'Angel Piano' on CH2. > > After a bit of random pootling around I just hit on the first phrase of > this > and just knew I had to do something with it. I always have Rosegarden set > up > ready, so just hit record and ran with it... for about 4 minutes. > > Later, I put it up on Soundcloud, with just the start and finish trimmed, > and > titled Improv2. That's when the fun started. I just could *not* think of a > suitable title. I also thought I should tidy it up a bit, but apart from > removing one really duff note nothing else seemed to really need attention. > > Looking through my photos I found one that seemed to fit the mood, and > added it > to the Soundcloud file. This was of an abandoned trackway, that is about a > mile long and in some placed barely passable even on foot. Still I couldn't > think of a title. > > Eventually it came to me quite out of the blue, so here it is fully formed > :) > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Quietly_Fading_Away.ogg > > -- > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >

Will Godfrey, Jul 17 2016: ... What a luscious, warm track. Exactly right for those hot, clear summer nights. I listened to it late yesterday night. A nice mix of warmness and a slightly dark atmosphere. Thank you for sharing! ...