Come Bach TuMi

Magritte

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The concept is sort of like four futuristic machines that get into an argument/discussion about Bach. About 3/4 of the way through there's kind of a technological "flashback"...if you get that far.

(I had no idea what genre to put this in...this one seems closer than classical but I'm open to suggestions.)

The only loops are TuMi. (There are some spacey sounds added to them.) Every bit of the fugue was recorded by me, I used nothing from the Web -- no MIDIs or anything -- except for some public domain sheet music.

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Lyrics

Dum dum dummmm...dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dummmm....

Song Stats

Hits: 2166
Comments: 25
Fans: 5
Plays: 353
Downloads: 100
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Uploaded: Apr 05, 2005 - 08:54:23 PM
Last Updated: Mar 19, 2007 - 01:12:05 PM Last Played: Nov 19, 2009 - 10:34:19 PM

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Song Actions

Hardware:

iMac G5, M-Audio Keystation 49e, tired eyes and fingers

Software:

GarageBand 2, TuMi loops, Jam Packs 1 and 4

Comments

thetiler	thetiler said 1695 days ago (April 5th, 2005)
	Got real interesting indeed Like that bach sound 1/4th into middle. Very cool, nice duet there. That is the nicest classical influence I heard tonight. Wow, nice organ. Yes! Then the nice bass and drums, cool. Even the cool thump of the bass drum or something. Nice ending. Good going!! Check out my latest song called The Bluebird Cafe (with two other guest)

	said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)
	Fantastic! good stuff here, takes the imagination on a ride

	solidwood said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)
	Loved it. Loved it. Loved the idea, loved the mix.

Magritte	Magritte said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)
	Thanks much!... ...to you, Tom Wounded, and thetiler for your kind comments. I figured when making this that it probably had kind of a limited audience, so I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. Check out my latest song called Tango Macabre

	Davian said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)
	Midi hey? 22htz hey...? your song sounds like your trying to be bach and failing miserably. It meanders all over the place and leads no where. there is no structure or depth you should think long and hard when judging others about sound quality when your song doesn't even have content!!? Check out my latest song called Viva la Darkness (theme)

Magritte

Magritte said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)

Um...what?
This is the Little Fugue in g by Johann Sebastian Bach -- one of his best-known works -- in its entirety. I did not alter a thing except to change the octave of one single note that didn't work in the correct octave for the instrument in question. If you have issues with the arrangement, the fault is certainly mine, although your comments were hardly constructive. However, whatever problems you have with the depth and structure of the fugue, you may argue about with centuries of music lovers and Bach's own reputation as a composer of reasonable quality.

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Magritte	Magritte said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)
	Ah, I see. You are attacking me, Magritte, because of a comment someone else posted about your song. In the future you might want to avoid such mistakes. (I would also suggest avoiding such comments, but it's your own decision how you want to be viewed around here.) Check out my latest song called Tango Macabre

	Davian said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)
	Ah, I see. a misunderstanding on my part, and i appologise for that but the fact that you addmitted to using an entire score of bach and altering one note then calling it your own makes me very sad. i with draw my sound snob coment but the rest stands. Check out my latest song called Viva la Darkness (theme)

Magritte

Magritte said 1694 days ago (April 6th, 2005)

Hmm.
I said the fugue was *recorded* by me, and that I used sheet music. I thought that, plus the name, plus the fact that the piece is VERY well known, would all serve as enough information that the fugue was not composed by me. There are plenty of transcriptions of famous pieces around here...and I'm sure this one isn't my last.

However, I also apologize if I somehow misled anyone else into thinking that I composed, rather than transcribed, this piece.

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	said 1693 days ago (April 7th, 2005)
	Ahhh Bach Sorry, I was having a MASH episode flashback Nice W Carlos type arrangement here.

Magritte	Magritte said 1693 days ago (April 7th, 2005)
	Ha! I swear every time I opened this up to work on it I thought "Ahh...Bach." Glad you liked the tune. Check out my latest song called Tango Macabre

macapa	macapa said 1693 days ago (April 7th, 2005)
	Hmmm It took me a second listen to be certain, but I really liked this version. Sounds simple enough, but there a originalities in there that really make it stand out. I especially like the transition to a real organ, very nice. Liked it so much, I downloaded it! Good work!

Magritte	Magritte said 1691 days ago (April 9th, 2005)
	Hmmm Thanks, I was on the fence about the organ but figured the piece was weird enough, a little more weird wouldn't hurt. Thanks for posting, especially because I've listened to some great stuff on your favorites list! Check out my latest song called Tango Macabre

_nderscore	_nderscore said 1693 days ago (April 7th, 2005)
	nicely done i really like your interpretation. the production & performance are excellent. an especially great job at creating the soundscape-lots of movement & working the left/right channels. if you've never heard it, you should check out william ørbit's 'pieces in a modern style'.. similar concept Check out my latest song called glyd

Magritte	Magritte said 1691 days ago (April 9th, 2005)
	nicely done I downloaded "Cavalleria Rusticana" based on your recommendation and thought it was lovely. Thanks for the comment and suggestion. Check out my latest song called Tango Macabre

drakonis

drakonis said 1691 days ago (April 9th, 2005)

you futured my favorite fugue!
I have often gotten this particularly catchy melody stuck in
my head for weeks at a time, I've loved this particular
piece by Bach for decades... I've also been a long-time
Walter/Wendy Carlos Moog synthesizer nut, of which this
sounds somewhat derivative, but in a good way. So with
that as background... I love it! Nice use of electronic
background leadup and loops & sound effects. You did a
good job of blending the loops, and fading different
voices in & out... the church organ's arrival for a sweetly
short period near the end was apropos, poignant and
slightly comedic, and was a very nice sounding organ too.
If it were me, I would have had a very faint foreshadowing
of he organ waft in at about 1/3 of the way in, and get
stamped out again by the Moogles?Ѣ, only to show up in
full again near the end as you did. And one last thing...
did you really play that from sheet music on your KB?
Even if you recorded one voice at a time, I'm very
impressed with your playing skills... Bach is
extraordinarily precise, and you captured the
mathematical precision of the fugue beautifully. I think
that part of the fun of your scoring is the modern
backbeat-style percussion loops you used set against the
metronome-consistency of the melody. Your melting
together of old and new styles was done very nicely.
Brava!
ttfn,
Drakonis

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Magritte

Magritte said 1691 days ago (April 9th, 2005)

you futured my favorite fugue!
Wow...thanks for the kind comments. I really like the idea about "foreshadowing" the organ; if I ever revisit this piece I will give that a try.

And yeah, I did record the whole thing, and it was definitely voice by voice (occasionally measure by measure; my keyboard skills have really deteriorated). One of the advantages of intending the piece to be mechanical is I could go in and edit everything without trying to maintain a lot of expression. I'm definitely not ready to try an "acoustic" version yet!

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mikkinylund	mikkinylund said 1688 days ago (April 12th, 2005)
	Awesome! I don't really care if you used midi, played it by yourself, lower or raised one octave when needed to - the result, and outcome is very good. Bach was a good composer and this stands as a very good tribute to his memory. I like how you "sneak" in the TUMI loops without distorting the essance of the orginal. Great work! Check out my latest song called Fairyland (Satumaa)

Magritte	Magritte said 1683 days ago (April 17th, 2005)
	Awesome! Heh, I was going for kind of a "sneak" with the loops. Didn't really know what to do with them. Thanks! Check out my latest song called Tango Macabre

TennesseeVic

TennesseeVic said 1684 days ago (April 16th, 2005)

Fugues, eh?
Fugues are so hard to make them sound transparent.
Anachronistic though they may be, pianos are often your
best bet. String quartets work too.

However, I've on occasion tried playing fugues
electronically and always failed. And I'm sorry to say that
your piece -- fun though it is -- suffers from the same
defects that I keep running into: electronic sounds are just
too rich. I take it this is a 4-voice fugue? Most of the time
I can hear a voice and a half, so to speak. It is hard to
make out more than two lines.

But high marks for trying!

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Magritte

Magritte said 1683 days ago (April 17th, 2005)

Fugues, eh?
Yes, if I had taken more time with this piece I should have done more with bringing the voices in and out to distinguish them a little better. Basically I was lazy because a) I was REALLY tired of working on it after recording the whole fugue and b) I was hoping the familiarity of the piece would help.

I was actually thinking about reworking it, now that I have the fugure recorded, with acoustic sounds like strings, but I don't know if it would turn out too well since there isn't a lot of expression in the recording. I was in fact looking over some of Bach's two-part inventions (much less complex) to play with next for the exact reasons you mention.

Thanks for listening and commenting!

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ronnielong	ronnielong said 1675 days ago (April 25th, 2005)
	Rock on..... Way to go Mag! I like how you put yer Twist on things. Really Cool. :) Cheers! Check out my latest song called ... How I learned to Love the Bomb

elppa cam	elppa cam said 1642 days ago (May 28th, 2005)
	Very cool I'm still not a fan of the drums but they fit better here. Very retro-futuristic... gives me a Logan's Run flashback. I wish I could play keys as well as you do. Do you have a version without the drums??? Check out my latest song called What's Gonna Happen

Magritte	Magritte said 1642 days ago (May 28th, 2005)
	Very cool Thanks elppa...yeah, I'm not crazy about the drums either but it's what TuMi gave us to work with so there they are. I don't have another version of this because I made it for the contest but I guess anything's possible in the future. Thanks for commenting! Check out my latest song called Tango Macabre

1rwhite1

1rwhite1 said 898 days ago (June 11th, 2007)

O, Bach's Hair
I can't say that I'm a Bach expert or even a fan, for that matter. (I'm a bit of a jazz snob.) But the layering in this interpretation is nothing short of professional. Actually, what you did with the percussion is what impressed me the most. Too often, folks will have a great idea and then turn around and put that great idea on a boring drum pattern that has no variation or dynamic. This is not the case with this song. Your choices with that instrument really make the scales and arpeggios of the other instruments stand out more, thus resulting in a more colorful piece. Great work here and it's clear that you have a command of this style of music.

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Name: magritte

I was a teacher and sign language interpreter in L.A., now not so lively, but originally an East Coast girl. I grew up training classically in piano, violin, cello and harp, but that all pretty much fell by the wayside once other things took over... [see more]

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