Masters project proposal

Synopsis for my masters project masters_synopsis.doc

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Story telling in music… Ravel’s Ondine

I went to a piano recital at the John Innes centre last night, Milan Miladinovic was playing a varied program, including Bach, Ravel, Chopin & Liszt. He was quite an astonishing pianist, I was captivated! Huge dynamic variation and accuracy in some incredibly technically difficult pieces. In addition to the musical drama, he gave some [...]

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Critical Evaluation Self Negotiated sound project

The critical evaluation of the sound project

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back in the sound room

Tom helped to unscramble my slightly confused logic project in a tutorial last week. With everything straight it was easier to start working with the tracks one by one. I spent some time making sure the levels for each instrument peaked in the right places, and used a compressor to narrow the dynamic range slightly [...]

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Update on the sound project

I stopped documenting the process…. I was too involved in making the piece, so I’ll have to back track a bit.
‘Nostalgias’ is the piece of music I settled on to arrange and rework for iTango, because of the cyclical melody and the slowness.
After writing out parts for various instruments I got some musicians into the [...]

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more inspiration

I like this piece by Otros Aires…

Its spacious, but keeps your foot tapping. Quite eclectic, with the unusual vocal, like a mosque chant or something (sorry, I’m sure there is a better term!) mixed with what sounds like a sampled tango voice. I think the drum beat works well, it’s not always there and it’s [...]

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Candidates for rearrangement

I love this song… ‘Nostalgias’ by Juan Carlos Cobian to the poem by Enrique Cadicamo. I don’t think anyone has made a contemporary arrangement of it yet. I think it might be quite suitable for my itango project because it has a kind of circular melody at the beginning, and in the climax there’s a [...]

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what makes tango music tango?

Shaun (course leader) has asked me this question a couple of times, so I’m giving it some thought. There are of course a number of musical elements that come together to make a tango sound like a tango…
Tango almost always sounds intense, dramatic and melancholy, even though it’s not always in a minor key.
Perhaps the [...]

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sounds

I have the films of the last couple of times we made a performance using the itango pogram, so I’m thinking I will start with those.
I have to imagine the sounds that go with the images in the film…
For the projected images, I think the big rich ripples (where I’ve set the damping to let [...]

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Next project

I’m thinking about creating some music to use with the interactive tango performance. I like the piece we used in the performance at Tango-del-Bosque, particularly the way the music comes in on the first note and you’re not sure whether it’s feedback or a note… it gradually becomes apparent. I’d like to keep this electronic [...]

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