Ahem... Back to topic. Congratulations to all the other winners!
Before I say something about my piece, I'd like to thank rhb for transferring my entry to mp3, and I also promised him he'd get post mastering production credits for cutting off some seconds at the beginning and the end of the recording. 🙂 I would also like to thank Starrman for running the competition.
The inspiration for my piece was of course my username (which means aurora borealis). It started as an improvisation, although parts of it (especially the beginning and the end) became quite fixed after playing around with some ideas for a while. I also built in a melody I "found" when I was around four or five y.o. (it just popped up in my head, and I believed it to be magical 🙂) . I always wanted to use that somewhere. It's the melody which emerges from the long notes in the beginning.
Originally posted by sonhouseI have no idea, but the lowest two strings seem to be tuned to C and G, is that right?
Thanks everyone for voting and thanks for voting for me! 100 extra points for anyone who can tell me what tuning I used on the solo piece, the river.
Speaking of tuning, I also used scordatura.
Originally posted by NordlysScordatura? Is that the name of a cello tuning? Or an electronic tuner?
I have no idea, but the lowest two strings seem to be tuned to C and G, is that right?
Speaking of tuning, I also used scordatura.
Yes, C@G. This is a real oddball tuning I found in a site that listed most if not all the tunings used by Joni Mitchell. She does use some oddballs! This tuning is second in oddballness only to one used by a rather unknown but great female guitarist by the name of Raun Mckinnon, on her composition called 'Sacrifice of the Goat', She hails from Maryland, US and that is her masterpiece solo.
Originally posted by sonhouseThis is oddball:
This tuning is second in oddballness only to one used by a rather unknown but great female guitarist by the name of Raun Mckinnon, on her composition called 'Sacrifice of the Goat', She hails from Maryland, US and that is her masterpiece solo.
http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/tab/tuning.html
Originally posted by StarrmanThank you to all of my fans.
Thank you to all our musicians and to everyone else who helped out. Well done especially to all the winners and I'd like to welcome you all to the stage to collect your awards and perhaps tell us a bit about the winning tunes.
Congratulations!
40 oz. Ballad was one product of a project I did with two of my boyz in grad school - the Rap Lock-In of 1999. We decided on the spur of the moment to write, record and produce an entire rap album in one night. Be began at dusk and before the sun came up we had a full 10-track CD named Pimpin' 'n' Pleasin', and 40 oz. Ballad was one of the highlights of the album. Our recording hardware was one microphone and one PC. We used N-Track Studio to do the recording and mixing, and Melody Assistant to compose the drum, bass and keyboard tracks. My personal contributions to the song were the drum beats, the bass line and keyboard parts, as well as rapping the main verses. This song took approximately 30 minutes from concept to completion.
Patience was a cover that my band in college played at a small gig on campus. We were big G 'n' R fans and Patience was a song that we always liked covering and that people always liked to hear. The recording device was a small walkman-style, handheld cassette recorder with a built-in mic that some chick in the audience used to record the gig. My personal contribution was the guitar playing and the background vocals. The date of the recording was 1996.
I enjoyed the competition. I'm glad you enjoyed the tunes.
Dr. S
Originally posted by sonhouseI don't even own a tuner. Scordatura is when you tune the instrument in a different way than usual. For the cello, the normal tuning is a d G C, while I had tuned the a string to g (which is also the tuning used in Bach's 5th Suite for Cello Solo). Right now my cello is tuned to a d F sharp B because I have been practising Kodaly's Sonata for Cello Solo.
Scordatura? Is that the name of a cello tuning? Or an electronic tuner?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scordatura