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![]() There
has been a bit of a "buzz-on" about the distinctive sound of
the Circon
as heard on Tales
of Heaven and Hell.
Most people when hearing it immediately smile and shout out:
"Theremin!" Not quite. Yes, it DOES sound rather like an
idealized Theremin, that was the general idea. But don't you
find the subtle changes of timbre interesting, and more than
Lev Theremin's early device could do? (Next time I'll go
even further away, as the range of possible sounds with a
Circon setup is quite broad, but not as wide as
keyboard-triggered sounds.) Also, isn't the playing rather
more "in tune" than usual and the vibrato rather more under
control than you'd expect from a Theremin? |
![]() What
you will find in the files below is the complete MIDI
versions used to generate the master track for HeavenScent
on TH&H, just as I composed and played them into my Mac.
For the purposes of download, I found the final version, and
went in and removed all the unused tracks (usually I leave
the blank deadwood in place, in case I want to make changes
later), leaving just the active 18 that went into the
complete orchestration. The tracks overview will show
you: ![]() (click the image for a full-size version) ![]() (click the image for a full-size version) ![]() (click the image for a full-size version) |
![]() Time to check things out for yourself. You may wish first to download clear full-sized GIF versions of the three images above, to help you work out what you're looking at in the MIDI files below. That's especially important if you need use the generic MIDI format, which will lose all the names and comments of the Performer files. With the first image below, you'll be able to figure out what's missing, and take it from there. Here they are, in hqx format as on the other Resource page image files:
Now you're ready to download a MIDI format file for your study and own personal use (sorry, the composition and arrangement are copyrighted, of course.) If you've read the above, you'll have a pretty good idea of what these files are about, and how they were produced. In my liner notes for the TH&H album, I had only a brief commentary you have probably already seen -- I'll copy here just to be complete:
Now go on and grab the
version that best suits your needs. There are three versions
here I generated for you. The first is the Performer 5.5+
one, than contains everything in the original. If you don't
have a recent Performer or equivalent application to open
that, try the file formatted according to the earlier
Performer 2.1+. Only a few things, like MIDI assignments and
patches will be lost. Not important for most of you. And if
you simple have no friend(s) who can help you(!), nor have
any way yourself to open that version either, go for the
general MIDI file format example, just be particularly
careful to follow the info in the first GIF above. Go for
it!
--Wendy Carlos |
Wendy
Carlos HeavenScent
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