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Mystified (140), dinosaurs (2), museum (1), bones (6), whimsical (3), imagination (19)
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So today, as I was taking my usual Saturday canyon walk, I had this idea for a song using marimba and xylophones to 'paint a portrait' of dinosaur bones.
(yes...i occasionally get odd ideas as I'm out walking...)
Though, the idea of using xylophone and percussion for 'bones' is not new. Saint-Saens used them very effectively to portray 'Fossils' in his popular "Carnival of the Animals".
This is not a completely polished piece--I recorded and mixed it in one evening's time.
I may go back in one day and fix the timing issues, but for now, it's imperfect and whimsical! Enjoy!
Oh..and see if you can pick out the 'borrowed' motifs from other classical works!
Hardware:
macbook, MAudio 61es Keystation
Software:
GB3--mixed down in LE7
JamPack 4: Symphony
Soundfonth Synth
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: ) &mdash 01/14/07 - 06:11:53 AM
A lot of fun Mysti. I'm the wrong person to ask to name themes from classical works I'm afraid.
Neil [ Reply to This ]
Fun :) &mdash 01/15/07 - 11:53:10 AM
Well, no worries about the classical motifs--that you had fun listening was the point.
Thanks for taking time to comment! :) [ Reply to This ]
Curiously Atwoodesque :) &mdash 01/14/07 - 07:22:21 AM
Thanks for starting my day off with a smile. I esecially like the comic tubas. [ Reply to This ]
Atwood? where?? &mdash 01/15/07 - 12:04:54 PM
I guess it does have that Atwood influence, yes!
He continues to haunt the halls here at MJs, doesn't he?
(...and that's a high compliment, by the way)
Thanks for listening and I'm glad it made you smile. I had a lot of fun creating it, too. [ Reply to This ]
Running from things that go 'bump' &mdash 01/14/07 - 09:00:07 AM
Cat, I loved the footsteps! Great job of panning left to right then back to the right as they run away from things unseen. :-) Great job! Great portrait!
God bless,
Rick
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:) &mdash 01/15/07 - 12:21:12 PM
Thanks, Rick.
It's always nice to get your comments here--I'm glad you enjoyed this! :) [ Reply to This ]
odd but funny.... &mdash 01/14/07 - 09:17:19 AM
would be kool for some cartoon background music.....i could imagine fossils doing a funny dance..(when the marimba/xylo's come in) to this music....hehhehhe [ Reply to This ]
Hehehe &mdash 01/15/07 - 12:34:33 PM
thanks for your comments, Mcboy :)
It's always nice to know that you're listening and enjoying the music I'm doing. [ Reply to This ]
lose timing = lose bones &mdash 01/14/07 - 10:04:47 AM
this is cool! the mood is playful, even though it's about dinosaurs.
i really like the "timing issues" - it makes me think of skeletons kind of jangling around. you'd lose that effect if you tightened up the timing.
thanks [ Reply to This ]
rickety bones.... &mdash 01/15/07 - 12:38:46 PM
I did have that thought, actually.
That the 'timing issues' might create a sense of unsteadiness and gangly motion, so I appreciate your comments on that.
Thanks for listening! :) [ Reply to This ]
Peer Gynt &mdash 01/14/07 - 11:00:31 AM
I hear Hall of the Mountain King. I used to have this little Halloween trinket; it was a coffin with a skull inside that, when you twisted the thingy on the bottom like a music box, it would pop open the coffin top and show it's ugly but appropriate little head. It was actually really cute and it played Hall of the Mountain King. I've always loved that tune by Grieg and I played it in a symphony once. Lots of fun. That's how I hear this tune as well. Sounds like you just had a blast recording this impromptu and creative little song. Me likey. :-) [ Reply to This ]
Peer Gynt it is! &mdash 01/15/07 - 12:54:09 PM
Yes!
I always loved listening to the Peer Gynt Suite and imagining the story behind the music.
That, as well as Pictures At An Exhibition by Mussorgsky.
Some themes/motifs always stay with you, and Hall of the Mountain King is definitely one of them. As I was improvising the various parts of this song and overlapping them, I could hear that motif and it just seemed to fit as a layer, and so I used it.
Thanks for listening and for your comments :)
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Very evocative piece.... &mdash 01/14/07 - 01:55:15 PM
I really enjoyed listening to this piece.
It does the job admirably.
The timing issues lend a hand to the piece, from one point of view. I don't think they detract from the overall effect of the piece at all.
R. [ Reply to This ]
thank you! &mdash 01/15/07 - 12:56:29 PM
Thanks for these comments, R. :)
Again, it's nice to know that the loose timing perhaps adds to the piece, rather than takes away.
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Much fun. &mdash 01/14/07 - 03:23:18 PM
Reminds me of Seth Blair's 'Skeleton Dance'.
Funny, the things that pop into a person's mind as inspirations in a quiet moment...
Leave the timing issues in, and go out and get yourself famous. Years from now, some poor musical archaeology student will have to accurately transcribe it, capturing "all the subtle nuances"...
Ed [ Reply to This ]
dancing bones.. &mdash 01/15/07 - 01:00:58 PM
I don't think I have heard "Skeleton Dance"... I will have to look that one up.
And I can confirm--there's no way I'd be writing any of this down in musical notation. I barely survived Music Theory in college!
Thank goodness for MIDI and being able to improvise from keystation to computer!
None of this would exist otherwise!
Thanks for listening and for your comments, Ed :)
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a little haunting &mdash 01/14/07 - 10:29:21 PM
a little funny, and very much a boney sound. the slightly off timing actually adds something to it. since dinosaurs wern't know for there ballet skills. [ Reply to This ]
worth developing! &mdash 01/15/07 - 12:57:31 PM
Mysti, I do hope you develop this piece further; it'd make a great children's piece for orchestra kiddie concerts!
Maybe we should collaborate someday on this idea....I haven't done anything further with my children's series which started with "Baby Roosters".
Tuba and xylophone is a great combination! [ Reply to This ]
Dem bones! &mdash 01/15/07 - 02:48:38 PM
Nice one Cat. Good fun. A Jurassic time was had by all! LOL!
Be well!
http://www.macjams.com/song/27908 [ Reply to This ]
Dem bones dem bones, &mdash 01/16/07 - 01:57:37 PM
dem dry bones....
What a fun little piece. With that title it's absolutely clear what you're doing and you nailed it. [ Reply to This ]
I agree &mdash 01/16/07 - 02:17:15 PM
With those above about the 'timing issues'... the looseness just adds to it. This is really cool, Cat. Besides the mallets and tuba, the footsteps and strings totally go together... it sounds like there's a little story going on--I can picture it many ways. [ Reply to This ]
Like the . . . &mdash 01/16/07 - 10:30:50 PM
walking and sounds of what seems like snapshots of a persons mind as one would walk along seeing the various displays. Nice myst, using the instrumentations you do! Nice to get back to macjams and hear such a prized macjams - icomp personality.
Hope you have loads of luck and great things in the New Year Myst! [ Reply to This ]
Very Good ----- &mdash 01/19/07 - 12:34:11 PM
I could actually watch this song (in my head) as I listened. Nicely done. I really couldn't hear any timing problems. Real music isn't perfect anyway is it?
Thanks for sharing Cat,
mvh : ) [ Reply to This ]
Now let me think... &mdash 01/24/07 - 04:58:46 PM
...I'm thinking maybe Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" (might just be the 'footsteps in a hall' bit)?
And those pizzicato strings in the beginning are giving me a bit of a "Mountain King" vibe?
Aaanyway - this is quite entertaining! Totally worth going back to and polishing!
Very nicely done!
-Einar S. [ Reply to This ]
A Night At the Museum &mdash 04/05/08 - 12:20:53 AM
and a journey to the age where dinosaurs ruled the earth. What a nice trip Cat - enjoyed every step of the way.
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