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Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by IggleSniggle »

taylorfinley wrote: post #98
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…

In answer to your closing rhetorical, I'd like the throw a curveball: Corporate Businesswave, the genre of truly creative artists riffing on soulless corporate jingle culture. Plenty of 80s/90s aesthetic to go around here. I personally love "Money Can Buy Happiness" and "Mark to Market" by New Century, "Pump and Dump" by Shadow and Mirrors, and "Insider Trading" by Michael Weber. A good jumping-off point: https://ope…

Thank you for this!

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by lproven »

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.

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Post by Infernal »

cormacrelf wrote: post #68
Underphil wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also did one a while back if anyone is interested. https://youtu.be/s_XYWwCu8vM

Man. I remember making little mids on a flip phone in the 2000s. When you're playing with the silly toots and beeps you imagine them so much bigger. These covers are how it sounds in your head when you're writing one.

You just triggered a memory for me that I probably haven’t thought of in 15 years, but I recall circa 2003 sitting down with my Motorola bar phone and my electric guitar and programming it note by note (with the keypad!) to play a few seconds of Enter Sandman as my ringtone.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by huskyr »

taylorfinley wrote: post #98
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…

In answer to your closing rhetorical, I'd like the throw a curveball: Corporate Businesswave, the genre of truly creative artists riffing on soulless corporate jingle culture. Plenty of 80s/90s aesthetic to go around here. I personally love "Money Can Buy Happiness" and "Mark to Market" by New Century, "Pump and Dump" by Shadow and Mirrors, and "Insider Trading" by Michael Weber. A good jumping-off point: https://ope…

Probably the most famous example of this genre is James Ferraro's "Far Side Virtual", which can be listened to in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd-uSm8ittU

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Post by mhd »

Eikon wrote: post #52
mrleinad wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities. I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.

Happy developers are engaged and make fewer errors.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by krinchan »

_nickwhite wrote: post #38
mixmastamyk wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Please hold, your call is important to us!" ♪♪

Gen X-ers and Older Millennials will request to be put on hold again just to jam out to that Windows 3.1 nostalgia.

> Older Millennials

Bloomberg has dubbed us Geriatric Millennials now. I'm sorry you missed the memo.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by drKarl »

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.

I think nowadays an easter egg would be a hard sell on a Pull Request...

Most likely back then there were absolutely no code reviews...

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