{"id":61,"date":"2020-01-10T01:54:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T07:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/?p=61"},"modified":"2024-09-11T04:36:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:36:56","slug":"2020-where-does-the-time-go-oh-and-a-little-reverie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"2020 !! Where does the time go? Oh, and a little Reverie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some time has past since my first post to this blog, mostly because I live a boring life and don&#8217;t generally have great massive events to talk about.  So now it is 2020! Since I have long counted things beginning with zero, being a programmer at heart, I am considering this the start of the new decade &#8211; the Twenties are back! I don&#8217;t intend to argue about it &#8211; if you think the decade starts on January 1, 2021, that is your prerogative. I&#8217;ll just point out that when we are born and are 0 years old, heck, even 0 days old yet, that we have started our first decade of life. That the guy that invented the calendar didn&#8217;t include a year zero doesn&#8217;t impress me much. Just saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I have a minor Major event to discuss. I have a musical project that made it onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/radiospiral.net\/\">RadioSpiral Internet Radio Station<\/a>. They are a non-profit Ambient Music station. My project was an electronic music version of Debussy&#8217;s Reverie which Gypsy Witch played on her <a href=\"https:\/\/radiospiral.net\/shows\/around-the-campfire\/\">Around the Campfire<\/a> 2020 January 8 show. It was a big &#8220;Listener&#8217;s Music&#8221; episode and is totally amazing. I have a hard time choosing a favorite from the set. She puts replays up on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gypsywitch.rocks\/\">website<\/a> for a few weeks after each show if people want to catch a replay. Probably by the time you&#8217;re reading this the show with my project in it will have expired. But have a listen to one of her shows anyway. It is fun stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For reference, here is the MP3 of my file. I&#8217;m working on getting the &#8220;full quality&#8221; version uploaded to something like bandcamp. If there is any beauty in the song, I give full credit to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claude_Debussy\">Claude Debussy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Debussys-Reverie-seq-by-JBS-on-Yamaha-MX49.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Debussy&#8217;s Reverie &#8211; seq by JBS on Yamaha MX49<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Here is the blurb I sent with the submission:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> (AKA SwitchTech) This is an updated version of Debussy&#8217;s Reverie I sequenced (entered the notes one at a time, using a mouse and a MIDI Sequencer) back in 1992. This version was updated to take advantage of the voices in my Yamaha MX49 keyboard and the Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW. I used the voices which on an MX are also from a Yamaha Motif synth: Stereo Harp, Octave Strings, DX Celesta, Mystic Trance, and Concert Piano. I haven&#8217;t yet composed any of my own music, so this is the best I have at the moment. You have my permission to use it on your Wednesday show &#8211; and if for some odd reason you want to add it to the RadioSpiral Library, I can fill out the appropriate documents. It isn&#8217;t all that original, other than this is my arrangement but very closely following the Public Domain work that Debussy created in 1890. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1992 I had recently purchased a Yamaha PSR-500 portable keyboard (61 Velocity Sensitive keys and MIDI IN\/OUT ports). It did not use the &#8220;General MIDI&#8221; voice set, so when I uploaded the MIDI file I&#8217;d created to the Delphi Online service I had to manually remap the four tracks to the GM voicings, and couldn&#8217;t test it! I liked my version on the PSR-500 and hoped the GM version was nice too. Cycle forward a few years (27 or so!!),  I updated the MIDI file to use the Motif\/MX Voices. I then recorded the audio to six tracks using those voices listed above (I used Concert Piano on two tracks) from the MX49 that I have &#8211; and then bounced the audio to stereo for the MP3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pdr_0503-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pdr_0503-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pdr_0503-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pdr_0503-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pdr_0503-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pdr_0503.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yamaha PSR-500 probably sometime in 2002 or 2003, perhaps? Fancy footwork on display.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps my next project will be my own composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So now I have a BandCamp Artist page!  The song is here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/switchtech.bandcamp.com\/track\/debussys-reverie\">https:\/\/switchtech.bandcamp.com\/track\/debussys-reverie<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My full page is here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/switchtech.bandcamp.com\/releases\">https:\/\/switchtech.bandcamp.com\/releases<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So how was your day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time has past since my first post to this blog, mostly because I live a boring life and don&#8217;t generally have great massive events to talk about. So now it is 2020! 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