Seraph: Nemo Variations

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject:

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seraph · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject:

Stein, we know you have a digital camera. there is no need to show off every minute Very Happy

what about the Nidaros cathedral contest Question

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject:

OK.. seems to me that someone hjijacked your thread. Shocked

seraph · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject:

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elektro80 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:49 pm Post subject:

Ahhh, that one... well it is pretty hard to make decent pix using digicams. I am used to exposure for analog film. I did use Photoshop in order to improve it a bit. Obviously the lenses are a bit different too.
I am using an LCD monitor. I have a pretty good Apple 17" LCD.

When I scan film I am using the Polaroid SS4000 at its optical resolution which is 4000 dpi. The scans are pretty good.

I have set up ICC profiles for the scanner and the LCD.

Oskar · Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 1751 Location: Norway

Dovdimus Prime · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:31 am Post subject:

Blimey this thread's gone way out of control.

Seraph: I like this Nemo Variations. It has plenty of tension and passion, and great use of timbre. I am very very impressed. I think composing dissonant music is very clever. This in fact reminds me of 50s style Gorecki, more the first rather than the third symphony. I am rightly jealous. Do you teach this sort of thing at your school?

For me it would translate perfectly to a live orchestral setting. The instruments are mainly if not all MIDI versions of orchestral instruments anyway, so you can tell from this version it would work well on an orchestra surely??!

Pellejones:
Your two demo thingies are also really nice. Kind of soaring and touching. Definitely sounds like a film soundtrack to me. The producer/director bloke is definitely onto a winner here, even if he doesn't know a guitar from his own arsehole. I prefer the non-lite version with the drums and thumps and such. I'm a sucker for drums and thumps.

Incidentally, you say this was done on Reason? I'm really impressed with the sounds of the strings and stuff. I am unable to produce remotely realistic strings/orchestral sounds. Totally unable. Which may be the subject of a future post...

Dovdimus Prime · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject:

Bugger! I've just realised Pellejones posted his tunes in Seraph's other thread. Oh well.

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:50 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject:

Dovdimus Prime · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject:

I meant more the composition of dissonant music (or at least the effective composition of dissonant music, rather than making a lot of shite.) I didn't mean MIDI massage, although, that too, is something I'm sure you could teach me a thing or two about.

This may be the subject of a PM. Why don't you have a messenger thingy?

Oskar · Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 1751 Location: Norway

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject:

Well, the idea of dissonance in the old meaning of the word.. in this context.. is pretty much long gone. This is about a new tradition and there has been a reeducation of the audience. Hmm... when I think of it.. we have ths far out norwegian artist called "Sputnik" who has his own project of dissonance.. long story.. hmm..

mosc · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject:

Dissonance is well defined in traditional music theory of the 18th century, but even then dissonant intervals, like augmented 4th and major 7ths were OK if used as passing tones, and other scanctioned practices.

The tritone was considered the devil's interval - "the devil in music". I never came across the devil myself - always seemed like some mythical creature like the unicorn or something - so I call this the Christian interval. They were the ones concerned with it the most, it seems.

see http://thelemicmusick.net/davidcherubim/tritone.htm

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject:

The "Christian Interval" will do just fine! Very Happy

Magnificent!

Oskar · Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 1751 Location: Norway

Good one Howard! Reminds me of a great retort built along the same line; In Norway, when we have a bad hair day, we say we're "having a black day." Our local soccer team, who have been national champions so many times in a row it's embarrassing, had a legendary coach who was as famous for his choleric temper as for his tactical nous, both world class. The first black player to play for the club (remember, Norway is still a very homogenous, or should I say "white" country) got a terrific tongue lashing during a training session. He answered ever so sweetly, "Sorry boss, I'm having a white day..."

pellejones · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject:

OK just to prove that I have a Digicam too, and that I rule when it comes to taking photographs Very Happy

These were taken TROUGH a microscope, with my cam. Imagine that the Camera was my eye. It was NOT easy Smile

but well worth the trouble.

Crab Spider
A beatle (In sweden they are from the Skinnbagge family. That would translate to something line, Skin Beatle)

I've cut the pictures so the circle is gone. You know, when you look down a microscope, there's a "view" circle. I just removed all the black. Croped the pic.

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject:

Wow.. that spider is HUGE! It is all over my 17" LCD. Scary! I had a neighbor once who looked pretty much like that. He came from Åndalsnes.

pellejones · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

hehehehe well the spider is... 5 mm in reality Smile

so that's a really cooool picture

mosc · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

Fab photos. You held your camera up to a microscope? No screw-in adapters or anything? Amazing.

Impressive that you got these little beasties to pose so nicely too.

Wow... Pellejones, you are a very talented fellow...