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Viewfinder is a song about the famous war photographer, Robert Capa. It opens with his famous quote “if your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” and also references other prominent people in his life. In particular, his fiancé Gerda, who died whilst photographing a battle in Madrid, is mentioned at the start of the poem and this sets the tone for the rest of the song. Themes of death, nostalgia and suffering are explored. Eventually, the song ends in a manner of a funeral dirge where the singer releases pent-up emotions of fear, anger and despair.

“If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” - Robert Capa
Where were they when Gerda shot it, 
outside a Madrid hotel, with its splintered 
glass grin, Fascist shells screaming in?
For that moment we’re frozen with him.
Capa, a borrowed Filmo 16 mm movie
pressed close to his eye, taking aim.
There he is in profile, scruffy, sexy,
abrupt. Don’t get in the way, he’d say.
We are back with them. Hemingway,
Orwell, Gellhorn and the rest, all those
press corps idealists saving the world. 
Capa loved his lips on a glass, women’s 
lips on him, his antidote to bloody war.
Taking risks, thinking he was bulletproof,
drawn into the flame, the bang-bang.
Crawling to gouged trenches, busted walls.
Wiping a smear of someone’s blood 
from his lens to get inside, capture his truth.
Taste the stench, hear pain, feel 
the cries for mother. Rip the blinders 
from eyes, mark our souls.
- Text by Martin Johns
 

Soprano - Teng Xiang Ting  
Bass clarinet - Julia Wells
Cello - Sarah Gait
Percussion - Brian Chan
Electronics - Daniel Lim
Conductor - Michael Hope

Viewfinder for soprano, ensemble and electronics

The startup sounds from Windows 95 to Windows Vista, played back at 4000% of their original duration.

Published to mark the occasion of the 20th birthday of Windows 95. Happy birthday, Windows 95.

__ UPDATE: More about the work:
www.erase.net/weblog/2015-08/win…sounds-slowed-4000

Read more about the composers responsible for these iconic sounds:
createdigitalmusic.com/2015/08/windo…mbient-music/

Windows 95 Startup Sound (slowed 4000%)

Oh yea! I'm a big fan of Monster Hunter! And Pokemon!

I thought Zinogre's theme would sound good in an old school Pokemon style. Enjoy!

(sprite by me)

Zinogre's Theme (Pokemon GBC Remix)

De Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España - Albéniz: Iberia

Iberia, Cuaderno II: No. 6, Triana (Orch. Fernández-Arbós)

Iberia, Cuaderno I: No. 3, El Corpus en Sevilla (Orch. Fernández-Arbós)

Iberia, Cuaderno III: No. 7, El Albaicín (Orch. Fernández-Arbós)

More Live (Live 2)

Хуун-Хуур-Ту (Huun Huur Tu) - Kargyraa (Khovalyg solo)

These musical examples are tuned to what is known as "mavila" temperament. It is named after the Mavila village of the Chopi people in southern Mozambique, where this tuning system was first discovered by Kraig Grady.
By virtue of the structure of this unique tuning, every existing piece of common practice music has a "shadow" equivalent rendition in mavila. That is, when Bach wrote Fur Elise, he actually wrote two songs - the one that you know, and the anti-diatonic equivalent in mavila temperament. It's only that the anti-diatonic versions have never been heard before.
Mavila is a tuning system whereby four stacked perfect fifths, rather than getting you to a major third, gets you to a minor third - meaning that the fifths are flat. Conversely, four stacked perfect fourths gets you to a major third, rather than a minor third. This has some very strange implications for music.
The mavila diatonic scale is similar to the normal diatonic scale - except interval classes are flipped. Wherever there was a major third, you'll find a minor third, and vice versa. Half steps become whole steps and whole steps become half steps (closer to neutral second range, however). When you sharpen the leading tone in minor, you end up sharpening it down instead, meaning you flatten it. Also, minor is now major - you end up with three parallel natural/harmonic/melodic major scales, and only one minor scale. Instead of a diminished triad in the major scale, there is now an augmented triad.
In these examples, the chosen mavila temperament is 25-equal, which was chosen so as to make all of the intervals in the mavila anti-diatonic scale to be as "distinct" from one another as possible, albeit at the sake of accuracy in approximating the harmonic series. 23-equal gains harmonic accuracy at the cost of categorical clarity, and 16-equal mediates between the two.


The Mavila Experiments - Bach - Invention #13 - 25-EDO

big chungus

Bizet: Orchestral Works [Gemini Series]

Petite suite des "Jeux d'enfants", Op. 22, WD 39: I. Marche "Trompette et tambour"

Solo Viola, Scordatura AGDA, Performed during a concert in May 2019

Ingen Internetanslutning

Trails of Creativity
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Recital at the Esplanade, 2nd August 2014.
Brahms on Schumann
Godowsky on Schubert
Sigfrid Karg-Elert
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Hans Gál

Trails of Creativity

Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme of Schumann, Op. 9

As a PSA since I've just recently seen this happen:
DON'T REPOST THIS IF YOU AREN'T GOING TO CREDIT ME. THATS STEALING. NO MATTER WHAT SITE YOU REPOST IT TO, THAT'S STEALING.

Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme of Schumann, Op. 9

Thomas Ang

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