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Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by mbg721 »

mrleinad wrote: post #26
gchucky wrote: post #13

There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time... [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds

I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.

Life-insurance mainframes never had easter-eggs, did they? This is just a measure of how seriously people rely on software.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by Majromax »

lproven wrote: post #123

A decade or so back I got to take a tour of London's Italian Quarter. It's mostly gone now but fragments still exist, like the Chiappa mechanical-organ factory: https://www.facebook.com/chiappalimited It would be an amazingly cool hack to adapt a pipe-organ to play Midi tracks off a USB key. Or, the flipside, to design a machine that could print pipe-organ rolls from MIDI tracks.

For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHdFAm7g7E -- controlling a pipe organ via MIDI

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Post by plucas »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #136

Clint "LGR" Basinger collects 90s-era MIDI gear, and made a video of his stack playing this track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSdaPTuV8E

I encourage you to read the first sentence of QuadrupleA‘s comment to this post in LGR’s voice.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by gwbas1c »

I don't think I ever listened to this on a computer with a good sound card. I don't remember it ever sounding so good.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by lathiat »

tgv wrote: post #90
QuadrupleA wrote: post #54

Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…

The infinite four chord inspiration sound is quite dreadful (shame on you, Hans Zimmer), but I do hope we never revert to the times of KPMG, we're strong as can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCvKXgp-Awo . If you haven't heard it, first prepare some ear bleach before you click.

When I think four chord song I think of Axis Of Awesome :)

Medley of a bunch of pop songs on the premise they all use the same 4 chords.

https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I

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Post by rob74 »

markshead wrote: post #27
underwater wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How am I only just learning that a a piece of music is only a song if it has vocals? Even the name makes that obvious.

Felix Mendelssohn wrote a collection of pieces called Songs without Words for the piano. This might suggest that the term "song" can be more nuanced than simply whether or not there are vocals.

The original German title is "Lieder ohne Worte" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words), and there is AFAIK no strict requirement for lyrics to count as a "Lied" (or at least "Lied" is not connected to "singen" the way "song" is connected to "sing").
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