<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wed, Apr 11, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a>, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.":<br>
> hard disk. I think, though, that today mod files still have value, as<br>
> "open source" music :-)<br>
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I've been wondering, how far are we, technologically, from being able to<br>
produce free, open-source, *classical* music.<br>
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Unlike newer popular music, classical music is too old to be copyrighted<br>
(see signature below ;-)), so it should be legal to freely distribute<br>
new performances of this music. And unlike the typical "esoteric" music<br>
on the tracker-module scene, classical music is actually popular in a<br>
significant part of the population.<br>
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Would it be beyond the current state of the art to sample orchestral<br>
instruments or simulate them, and synthesize their sound? Then contributors<br>
would input the music's score, add performance instructions to the various<br>
instruments according to their own interpretation (just like a real<br>
orchestra's conductor would), and recorded classical music would come out.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that in many instruments, the note depends on the surrounding notes - </div><div>you cannot record a clean note, but rather note A which was played after note B. </div><div>Unless you use things like the piano paddle which muffles the sound on the spot. </div>
<div>It means that you have left over tones that interact and echo. </div><div><br></div><div>I think that with current technology, we would have a symphony that sounds like </div><div>144 sound when they read back a telephone number.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And on another note (pun intended): do you really get these random signatures at random?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I don't think that with current technology, this is science fiction.<br>
Does anyone know if anything like this has been tried? With free<br>
software?<br>
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The end-result of such a project will not only be free, and royalty-free,<br>
classical music for all, but also an incredible tool for aspiring composers<br>
who do not have an orchestra at their disposal - and haven't (yet)<br>
mastered the ability to imagine what their composition would sound like<br>
with a full orchestra playing it. I don't think it will be a<br>
death-sentence to real-live orchestras - I don't believe many orchestras<br>
actually live on royalties from the 20-shekel classic CDs on the market.<br>
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Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Apr 17 <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a>,<br>
<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a> |-----------------------------------------<br>
Phone <a href="tel:%2B972-523-790466" value="+972523790466">+972-523-790466</a>, ICQ 13349191 |Classical music: music written by a<br>
<a href="http://nadav.harel.org.il" target="_blank">http://nadav.harel.org.il</a> |decomposing composer.<br>
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