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Re: [microsound] re: looking for lygeti MIDI file?



Well i would say quite a large number of people such as me. I saw 2001 in the mid seventies as a kid, before the advent of personal or home computers, VCR's,the internet, or import cars.

My parents barely spoke english, their main concern at the time was assimilating into society, at least they let me watch 2001.



aLEKs


On Feb 9, 2006, at 4:37 AM, jeff gburek wrote:

i wonder how many people's first ligeti experience was
kubrick's 2001 space odyssey?

--- Graham Miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

right you are about the name. apologies.

i can't get enough of the guy's work. it's really
quite fucking
brilliant (duh?). i just got kompakt and a shiny new
controller keyboard
and i can't resist doing half-assed imitations w/
various orchestral
patches just for kicks... ah, those cascading
semitone dissonances and
haunting swells...

i just wanted to run the whole real deal through
some crazy reaktor
synths just out of curiosity.  i think it would
really lend itself to
that sort of auto-interpretation and i think the
results would be highly
usable in a microsound context. in any context for
that matter...

i think the lack of MIDI files probably has less to
do w/ copyright and
more to do with a) the complexity of the work and,
as you said, b) the
fact that general MIDI wouldn't have a chance in
hell in doing it
justice. nonetheless, there's usually some geek out
there who has a lot
of time on their hands and thinks it'd be worth the
time to transcribe
and have it play back w/ the those appalling joke
synths embedded within
commercial PCs. i wish that geek were me.

seriously though, what chance would anyone in their
right mind have in
spotting a copyright infraction of a ligeti sample?
it's not exactly ode
to joy...  three seconds of any given piece could
slide by even the most
devote enthusiast, in the right recontextualization,
not that i'd have
anything to do with it... wink wink nudge nudge say
no more say no more...

g.

ndkent wrote:

I ran into a single short piece once some years
back but in general
his work has valid copyright and he has a major
publisher AFAIK, so
it's not something that would stay on the web very
long without being
removed... or sound very good if played by general
midi for that
matter, but that's a different point.

You can always try searching with his name spelled
correctly: Ligeti.


While it would take some effort and likely not be
square with
copyright -- say you don't find what you want
from someone else you
might have an easier time finding his work in
sheet music (large
public libraries usually have some) photocopy it
(if it's not
gigantic) or order it from a printed music shop to
be fair. Then scan
it and run it through a software package like
Photoscore that
transcribes scanned sheet music to .mid files.



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