Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: Feb. 21 2010, 17:53 |
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Last semester I took a course on Computing and Music, part of the college curriculum, and the quality of the classes truly matched my expectations. There were three assignments: one artistic, one theoretical, and one practical. We were free to chose the premise of each one of them, so as the theoretical job I did a (pretty poor) article on VST and similar technologies; the practical job was the construction of a functional optical Theremin; and the artistic job was this. It took me a while to choose the idea, but once this flashed in my head, I had NO way to choose anything else.
There was a minimum limit of 30 seconds and maximum of 60 seconds for each work. A dire limitation for my proposal, but I took it as a challenge. My idea was to make a version of the Tubular Bells intro using exclusively a software simulation of a subtractive synthesizer, using all the techniques we saw on the class.
The work was praised by the teachers, and one of them later played snippets of Big Robot, Little Robot, which was equally lauded, to the class. As a funny curiosity; we had to make a single PowerPoint slide to be shown while the music played, and once the cover of Tubular Bells appeared on the slide, I heard a gasp of reverence by one of the teachers. So, yeah, a classic is always a classic.
Subtractular Bells (adaptation by Fernie Canto)
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