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

[Graham Miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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