Alan D
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Posted: Oct. 21 2007, 04:44 |
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Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Oct. 20 2007, 21:55) | I also think that's a MIDI guitar, but using a different instrument; fortunately, because whatever patch he's using there doesn't sound plastic and whiny like the sax patch. |
Here's an interesting aspect that I should have mentioned before, but just reminded myself of by revisiting the Tr3s Lunas game.
In the game, there's a place we call 'Butterfly World'. When you enter it, the light fades, the colours change, evening falls in the landscape, and a gentle haunting musical passage begins. In the distance you can see shapes rising from the ground and fading into the air. When you go closer, you see that they're butterflies - hundreds and hundreds of them.
Among those butterflies there are two - a red one, and an yellow/orange one, that you can control as an avatar. And each one plays its own special tune when you fly it. The yellow butterfly's tune includes those magical three notes on the saxotar that Mike includes in Ringscape at between 2.45 and 3.00.
Imagine, if you can (or better still go and play the game), flying with this yellow butterfly, surrounded by hundreds of other butterflies, through a beautiful evening landscape with gentle music in the background, and with the butterfly avatar singing these exquisite saxotar notes. No other instrument would achieve this plaintive crying. It feels as if this kind of magical artistic moment is what the saxotar was invented for, and it represents Mike at his most delicate, sensitive, and imaginative.
That's the main thing I wanted to say, but also, having listened to it again in the game, as well as in Ringscape, I must say I do think this is indeed the saxotar that plays those lovely notes, and not something else. Perhaps Mike just found a perfect way of voicing it in that passage.
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