Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wondering what patch creation means? I’m still wondering, as in – why we do it, what we would want to achieve with it. Where earlier on, we wanted to emulate real world instruments, using concepts such as ‘physical modeling’. Whereas now, we seek to emulate vintage analog electronic instruments or make new, unique, musical sounds [...]
Hey I was running through a couple of catalogues for laptops. I even spent sometime checking out the machines at the showrooms. I realized that specs doesn’t really say much about it. Strangely, the machine of the same specs seem to have some delay tagged to some of them. Well no mentioning of brands here, [...]
What’s been happening? Software. Some time back I was made a post on music notation software. This time all I can say is that I’ve been looking at the application of software synthesizers. Lots of new stuff is going into them and have been playing with this Alchemy soft synth by Camel Audio to be [...]
This week I brought back the bass drum that I use to teach kids in rhythm training. It seems some of them found playing the basic patterns boring. What’s up with that? Don’t most of the best selling music use the same patterns most of the time? I always felt time keeping and laying down [...]
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
What am I doing now? I been trying to get some notation software to print out notes for handbell ringers. Anyway, I recorded one or two phrases with Windows “sound recorder” software under the accessories -> entertainment program group. Put it into this video. Any comments on the sound? Talking about bells. I had the experience of [...]
Hi everyone, I just installed the Mobile Pack into this blog. This means anyone can surf down to this site and read stuff from their mobile phone. I should think the service provider data charges shouldn’t be high. The graphics have all been reduced in size to maybe 3kBytes to fit nicely into your mobile [...]
I managed to get a copy of the movie Amadeus. This was a movie that I watched on VHS video tape, back in the mid eighties. The costumes in the movie are nice to look at. The scences, indoors and outdoors are magnificent. I have to mention that the music is thought provoking, nice [...]
What is that? Sacred Music. The music of the Church, applied in the liturgical settings. This time round I’ve been listening for hours to the “good stuff.” Orlando di Lasso (Lassus) 1532 – 1594 a master from the Flemish school. It was during the period of the renaissance that he composed this acapella music to [...]
Still feeling the effects of the nasty bug that I’ve been fighting for the past month. The scores I ordered came in the mail. Still don’t feel well enough to try singing and playing all of them. I, however sung a couple of lines and was feeling happy after a while. Exciting stuff from Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir, I can [...]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
I just had to post this pic of the Hand Chimes that I get to use while teaching music. It’s a really nice and fun way to learn the basics of being musical. Like what I always repeat on my websites and training sessions: Rhythm and Pitching, combined with tone (timbre) and expression (tempo, dynamics). [...]