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Butterfly Bill | mp3.com/ButterflyBill |
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Almost every MIDI sequencer program for computer generated music has a way you can "randomize", or vary the start and stop times of your notes so that they don't appear precisely on the beat. This is supposed to make your music sound "more natural", and prevent it from sounding "overly precise and mechanical". In this collection of pieces, I have deliberately not used any of this; instead I let the computer play with the preciseness and uniformity that only a computer can produce, giving it the same artistic appeal that a well-done mechanical drawing can have. Instruments can play fast, without having to stop for breath, at any extreme of their range, perfectly every time. In this Mechanical Music I let the machine sound unashamedly like a machine.
The first 7 pieces on this page, along with those listed below, Jig Fugue (in 6/8)Fugue in 7 (in 7/4) Fugal Rag (in syncopated ragtime) Fungers (in 15/8) Fletscherwilligen (in 5/4) Polygalumphry (in 9/8) Thing (in plain old 4/4) and The Libidinous Jig The Frivolous Jig The Vivacious Jig (all in 6/8. as their names imply)
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