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

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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