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Orphic Okapi
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I've temporarily given up on making stuff with Audacity and have returned to writing music with MIDI. The sound quality is terrible but it gives me a lot more freedom to write what I want. Sampling is fun but very limited.

Here's something I wrote today: http://midishrine.com/midi/37514.mid

I'm proud of it because there is not a single bar of 4/4 in the whole thing. I'm trying to challenge myself as a composer, so it kind of switches back and forth between 5/8, 6/8, and 7/16.


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Hm... I'm not able to play it. I just get a bunch of errors about missing sound fonts or something.

But as a former band geek, I have to chime in and say 4/4 is really nice to play, compared to 7/16... ^^


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Hmmm, that's odd. As far as I can tell it's just a regular MIDI file.

I was in band too, and while I agree 4/4 is nice to play, how far back in time do you think you'd have to go to find a Top 40 song in anything but 4/4? Pop music is oversaturated with it. I can't stand it anymore.


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I'll need to check this out at some point. I remember I liked what you did with MIDI before. How do you actually do it though?


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I just use a notator. Write down the notes and play it back.


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I wasn't ever in any school long enough to even join a band except once in elementary school, but they didn't have one...

I listened to the midi and it reminds me of a public service station show from San Diego State University that I sometimes listen to when I am in that area. It has a jazz (?) ensemble of about eight or so players that is kinda off-the-wall, so to speak. The music seems somewhat discordant in some ways that I can't explain, not that I am saying your music is. It is just the way the different parts seem to come together. All I can remember is that it has something to do with 'lilith'. I will be down there again tomorrow and will try get more info...


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I would take "discordant" entirely as a compliment.


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hahaha, for yourself or for them?

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got some Nausicaa comics in the mail today and a dvd or two...


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