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



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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