On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:11:17PM +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Hi!
Yesterday I finalised the international counting track and submitted
low-quality versions (1 MB size limit) to the Ubuntu Free Culture
Showcase.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
I made 2 versions, with and without whistling. The speech melodies
inspired me, but the whistling might be found to take away from the
counting.
Several formats and the complete Ardour session are available from
http://www.archive.org/details/countint
Wavpacking the source audio-files would have saved about 40 MB, but I
decided that it wouldn't be worth the trouble on the receiving side :)
Big thanks to all the contributors:
Sampo Savolainen, Finnish,
http://sampo.garageflower.net
becks, Italian,
http://msound.org
Robin Gareus, German,
http://gareus.org
Ken Restivo, US-English,
http://restivo.org
David Paez, Spanish
Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ, English, Gaelic,
http://www.nekosynth.co.uk
Savvas Z. Radevi??, Serbian, Greek, French, English,
http://blog.radevic.com
Nils "Steele" Gey, German, Japanese,
http://nilsgey.de
Maxime Deschildre, French
Comments and remixes welcome!
Cool! Nice peice, and very different from Kraftverk's take on the concept.
I'm happy that you closed with my spoof of the counting made (in)famous in the USA by
Lawrence Welk (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Welk).
My grandmother used to love watching him on TV
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6VWYDd5hgE); my brother and I used to groan and complain
at being subjected to it. When we heard him count off for his band like that, it used to
make us crazy, and we'd leave the room screaming in anguish.
-ken