Brazilian MIDIS via Email ??
Ralph Melville
Hope this group accepts this request.
Also, apart from the 'alt.binaries.sound.midi', will this particular
group NEVER exchange music files for the up/downloading ?
It's most difficult to find S. American sounds and Brazil is probably the
richest source, yet very little comes from there.
SAMBAS, SAMBAS, SAMBAS ETC.
Thx.
Ralph Melville
NW Canada
Ps:
If anyone can send midis via Email attachments in any shape, that would be
marvellous.
I'd like to reciprocate....
gsm
: Also, apart from the 'alt.binaries.sound.midi', will this particular
: group NEVER exchange music files for the up/downloading ?
No,this group will never eschange "music files" for up/downloading. This
is a discussion area of usenet as opposed to a binary area.
alt.binaries.sound.midi would be a more appropriate area for "music
files", though I'm not quite sure what a "music file" would be, other
than a midi file or a raw digital sound file (wav or aiff or something).
: It's most difficult to find S. American sounds and Brazil is probably the
: richest source, yet very little comes from there.
Sounds? Yes it is difficult to find both CD's and sheet music from
Brazil, but it can be done. Are you wise to Brazil CD's and
Luso-Brazilian Books? They can lessen the anguish.
: If anyone can send midis via Email attachments in any shape, that would be
: marvellous.
Jeez, I'd like to, but first I'd have to ENTER them. Are you using
Band-in-a-Box. It allows for midi output, and I have a number of songs
that could be done that way, but mostly they are sans melody as I perform
that part myself on guitar, cavaco, keyboards or accordion.
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Paul M. Sheldon
> Would dearly like to receive a few midis of Brazilian songs.
> Hope this group accepts this request.
> Also, apart from the 'alt.binaries.sound.midi', will this particular
> group NEVER exchange music files for the up/downloading ?
Try this :
http://www.msen.com/~kal/bossa_nova.html
I am particularly interested in Jobim's bossa nova rhythn and the
page has an excerpt :
What is the difference between Samba and Bossa Nova?
Guilherme Vergueiro answers this question in an
interview with Mr. Samba
Gerry Magallan has a page about Bossa Nova, including
Jobim & others. Sound clips, pictures, MIDI files. This
is a part of his larger exhibit on Brazilian music.
I found this page hearing Basia sing about Astrud and recalling that
she sang on a cd and was maligned on this newsgroup. I sort of wondered
what Basia's song was complaining about. So, I web crawler searched Astrud
and found out her last name was Gilberto.
I had been studying Jobim and lately I heard of Basia referring in a
song to Astrud Gilberto. I practice jamming with their compositions with
both keyboard and voice. I have a mac 8500 that allows me to compose live
stuff with midi stuff. The files are huge, but I have a 2 gig drive for
the occasion. It is a great adventure with the spirit of Jobim.
I have submitted a quicktime midi file of my jamming to sumex. I
don't believe that they would have accepted midi files as the forum wasn't
appropriate, but they did accept the quicktime midi because everyone was
interested on the list that apple computer could do that.
I pour myself into a work of jamming composition and currently I am
singing with a Basia cd and using Bobby McFerrin "don't worry" for a
keyboard left hand which defers me from computerizing Brazillian music.
I transcribe texts of sheet music of the artist into midi with an old
mac opcode vision import from an old DMCS which works in an old system on
an old mac then I applelink network the transcription to the 8500 which
has all the wave manipulation power a music surfer could want and then I
jam with voice and keyboard.
I can learn from the great ones by experience and never throw them off.
A lot of guitarists play along with records to learn.
It takes a lot of work to transcribe the music note by note for a
baseline to a jam, but you get the timing good that way and you learn to
value the artist who just enters it with his keyboard or string expertise.
One might worry that compute power will change that. Now, I can put a
cd on the gigabyte drive as a sound file and jam with that. But, the
jamming doesn't sound good alone with the baseline muted, so the files are
huge and can't be shared around the world. The 8500 will take the sounds
apart and code them into much smaller midi, but I am having too much fun
so far for such technicalities of sharing. There is so much novelty in the
"vision" program that learning all the technicalities could ruin my nerve,
only fun steels my nerve.
I have practiced keyboard with recordings and now voice, all this
while driving a car. This also provides a lot of time not using the
computer and instead developing my expertise.
There is something called jamnet that has been dormant for quite a
bit. They have a repository of midi files. As I get more and more brave to
publish, I shall be putting Jobim and Gilberto and Basia midi encodings
there and I can write briefs about it which I imagine is appropriate to
this forum.
In other words, if this forum is supposed to talk about Brazilian
music, then I shall talk about my feelings about music I put there.
>
> It's most difficult to find S. American sounds and Brazil is probably the
> richest source, yet very little comes from there.
I wonder if they play with computers and midi in Brazil. Of course,
with the cosmolopolitan nature of the internet "Aka Y Alla" ain't too
different.
>
> SAMBAS, SAMBAS, SAMBAS ETC.
OOOps Jobim is mainly bosa novas, Astrud stuff might be samba
according to a line of Basia's song.
...
> Ps:
>
> If anyone can send midis via Email attachments in any shape, that would be
> marvellous.
> I'd like to reciprocate....
Gotta work on my shyness. Ah, my wave has been published at sumex and
on a cd. I feel safe on that one. I am very new to the idea of publishing
to own or be recognized, in some sense, publically. There is a lot of work
to the transcription and jamming, enormous amounts of time and me. I like
the idea of publishing on a repository and then giving ftp address in e
mail. But, my version of Wave has already been put in a repository. I have
also only recently rigged my vision so comment would be made in the midi
export of what instruments I chose which is a crucial part of the
information of my arrangement. So, times have changed and I could send you
the midi of my "wave" or "onda".
Tell me you are interested. All these computers don't give one whit of
applause and an artist needs that too.