I have finished two movements of Tower Music. One is an aggressive, overture-type piece, not unlike Meltdown from Bridge Music, but at the moment I’m not sure of its placement in the final sequence of numbers. The second is part of a projected mini-suite entitled “The Harp That Pierced the Sky,” limited to the Eiffel Tower‘s harp-like samples. This is… Read more →
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LET THE COMPOSING BEGIN
I have completed building my “Virtual Eiffel Tower Instrument,” a repository of the sounds I will use to compose Musique de la Tour. Now the creative part begins, THE PART I CAME TO DO. To paraphrase William Shawn, legendary editor of The New Yorker: “…Be patient – trust your material. Every piece has its own natural, sometimes preposterously long term…”… Read more →
BUILDING THE EIFFEL TOWER VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT
I’m now building the Eiffel Tower Virtual Instrument. That is to say I am now going through the 2800 samples culled from the original 10,000 and organizing them into a coherent playing system. All bell-type sounds are being grouped together, all drum-like sounds, marimba-like sounds, etc. It is meticulous and labor intensive work. It’s not unlike building a piano before… Read more →
THE SOUNDS OF THE EIFFEL TOWER HAVE BEEN CATALOGED!
Taking four months, from July 24 to November 21, ten thousand raw samples were sorted through yielding about twenty-eight hundred chosen ones (the estimated actual count is c.9967/c.2832). The eleventh and final recording day was extremely light. I worked through roughly 200 raw samples to select about 75 of them. Contrast this with Day 7 or Day 10’s totals. Here’s the breakdown… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 10 – CATALOGED!
Stats to date: Day 10 = c.1440 raw samples yielding c.384 chosen samples.The sum for 10 days so far c. 9767 raw samples, c. 2757 chosen ones. ONE MORE RECORDING DAY TO GO…. Our process breaks the recording sessions into scenes/takes/hits. Day 10’s work covered almost 47 scenes, the most we ever did in one day. However the amount of… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 9 – CATALOGED!
Stats to date: Day 9 = c.1040 raw samples yielding c.260 chosen samples. The sum for 9 days so far c. 8327 raw samples, garnering c. 2373 chosen ones. This image shows the Intermediate Floor, the area where we spent the entire day. Structurally it acts to bind the four legs as they ascend from the Second Floor to the… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 8 – CATALOGED!
Yes it was only six days ago I finished Day 7, but Day 8 was a short day and I had my nose to the grindstone this week, so another one down! The stats to date: Day 8 provided roughly 496 raw samples yielding roughly 124 chosen samples. The sum of the 8 days’ recording so far is roughly 7287… Read more →
A LOOK INTO THE TOWER MUSIC STUDIO
Here are some shots of where I am working nearly every day, cataloging the samples from Tower Music, and (when that’s done) where I’ll spend many more hours: creating my virtual instrument composing the music creating the sheet music scores pre-mixing the finished audio files for mastering in the studio Center foreground is my vintage digital keyboard, the Yamaha SY85… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 7 – CATALOGED!
The stats to date: Day 7 provided roughly 1450 raw samples yielding roughly 320 chosen samples. The sum of the 7 days’ recording so far is roughly 6791 total listened-to samples yielding roughly 1989 chosen samples. This was the heaviest recording day to date (though I know we have at least one heavier one coming up). This day’s work included… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC DAY 6 – CATALOGED!
The stats to date: Day 6 provided roughly 800 raw samples yielding roughly 206 chosen samples. The sum of the 6 days’ recording so far is roughly 5321 total listened-to samples yielding roughly 1578 total chosen samples. I’m now past the halfway mark in terms of days but if memory serves, not halfway thru the number of samples. Still, this… Read more →