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Re: Canyon.mid

#101
post #73

Canyon is good, but Passport.mid is the superior Windows midi file... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9BtuPpW9w

Agreed, wouldn’t have been out of place in a Maxis game.

Re: Canyon.mid

#103
post #90

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.

I actually quite like the KPMG anthem's jungle remix: https://soundcloud.com/joey-devilla/the-kpmg-song-jungle-sty...

Re: Canyon.mid

#104
post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's literally in the name

Words can expand from their original meanings, you know. Look at any music player or just everyday speech, you'll see "song" being used to refer to a discrete unit of music in the same way you could use "track" or "tune".

Maybe, but we can still protest against changes when they are silly. Nobody in French would call Debussy's Clair de Lune "une chanson", why should the English language be oversimplified? Also, good music players use the word "track", and one song (or other musical piece) can span over multiple tracks, e.g. Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother.

Re: Canyon.mid

#106

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…

Gets me fired up to jump over a dolphin. Weird.

https://youtu.be/q26aQKRjebI

Re: Canyon.mid

#107
post #90

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.

How about the Capgemini rap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCnDVHzqv4

Re: Canyon.mid

#108

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…

In the old days you had to sing the corporate song yourself, e.g. Ever Onward I.B.M.[0]

[0]: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/everonward_trans....

Re: Canyon.mid

#110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format. There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87

Here's a much weirder example of using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0

Here's another nice example of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA
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