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Yet another Geo... creation
Took me longer to do the video than the music... GeoClarinet with Fluid Acoustic Bass from Noise and choir from Beathawk, all straight into AUM. It amused me that the excellent 'October / GeoCello' by @LinearLineman reminded me of JS Bach whereas mine reminded me of the theme from Dinnerladies.
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These realistic sounds are my jam... I love Noise. It's worth mentioning that the "Fluid Acoustic Bass" is in the World Colors IAP. Overtime I have collected a large selection of
Noise IAP's and I always find inspiration by flipping through the available sounds.
BeatHawk is another app with a huge array of IAP's worth owning.
And now the SWAM instruments for GeoShred put it in another category of app for me.
The work they did under the hood for MPE surface controls and parameters are so good
to make this a very valuable place to invest for the $75 bundle of SWAM instruments.
Thanks for the clarinet demo @GeoTony. Very convincing and beautiful sound. I thought I might do with the iFretless clarinet, but this beats it by a mile. You played on the glass, I’m guessing. Only Oboe and Flute needs a demo now! Nicely done👍👍
I can see that I'm going to get all 6 on a time plan. I picked up the Tenor Sax Yesterday
when I scored another gift card using some free credit card points.
@LinearLineman Yes, on the glass. Can't do keyboards.
@McD The Fluid Bass is one of my favourites
Very nice piece! Beautifully composed melodies!
If nobody beats me to it, I'd like to use the Oboe and Flute instruments to cover this piece. It will be really tough to get the combination of volume swells, vibrato, tone quality, etc. all correct at the same time, never mind the actual pitch. But I'll enjoy the challenge.
@GovernorSilver, that would be great!
Edit: thanks for making me aware of Liz and The Blue Bird. The Japanese aesthetic is unique and magical.
Thanks @LinearLineman and @Intrepolicious for your kind words. It's kind of daunting posting for the first time, hard to judge your own creations. @GovernorSilver I initially misunderstood your post and thought it was you playing... very impressive... look forward to your effort.
@GeoTony - no worries!
My pleasure, @LinearLineman ! I thought it was great call for director Naoko Yamada to use two composers for the film - Kensuke Ushio for the soundtrack for the high school settings, and Akito Matsuda for the concert band music and fairy tale scenes. I love how Ushio chose to build a sample library by sampling objects in the real-life high school that the fictional school is modeled on, then use the Decalcomania technique to create graphic scores for his musical contributions, utilizing the samples. His feeling like he was spying on the girls' private lives matched the director's intention to make the viewers feel like they were watching them through glass.
I've been reading every article I could find in English on this film, and watching "Making of" clips on Youtube. Fortunately, somebody took the trouble to add English subtitles - these clips include interviews with Yamada, Ushio, the author (Ayano Takeda) of the novel that inspired the film, etc.:
I don't recall Yamada mentioning the Japanese concept of "mono no aware" - which I guess has something to do with transience, the passage of time, etc. and how it makes one feel - but it seems to be a constant throughout this film.
Interview with Ushio:
https://atmafunomena.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/liz-blue-bird-composer-interview-kensuke-ushio-agraph-quiet-and-hidden/
Unfortunately, I'm unable to find any English translations of any interviews with Akito Matsuda. He is responsible for a selection of melody lines I've been learning by ear, from the music he contributed to this film and his work for the parent franchise "Sound! Euphonium". "Sound! Euphonium" is not required viewing before watching Liz and the Blue Bird - Yamada and her crew did a brilliant job of making that possible.
This is one of those melody lines, from "Sound! Euphonium" - a scene that inspires me to work more at being the player who makes jaws drop, rather than settle for being the player who is politely cheered on by friends:
I hope you make it to the Flute and Oboe no matter what you make. We need someone
to show the beauty of those SWAM instruments with a nice track or two. A duet of course would be great.
Do you generally like to challenge yourself to re-create an existing piece as close as you can get it? If you can do that... you can write something new too.