Audacity and me
I came across some pretty cool free software that I thought would be worth mentioning here, because it is really a great tool for musicians (at least i think so). The program is called Audacity, it’s a cross platform audio editor and recorder. So basically a sound recorder with multi track capabilities, and it will run on most operating systems (I’m using windows and have their beta version).
So I have been playing around with it today and really liked the results. When I was in highschool, I played with a group called Colorado Honor Band. One of the band directors always had us play these warmups. There Called the Function Chorals and they were written by Stephen Melillo. They are really quite wonderful warmups and well, definitely helped me learn my scales as well as the idea of music being based on intervals rather than specific notes. So anyhow I went ahead a played some with the Audacity and well, I liked how it came out. Here is #4 which is called Motion in Thirds. Also if you recall I have been working on the Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski for a while. There is a very short passage in the 1st movement I am working on that stuck in my brain as something really wonderful, so I decided to play it repeated for a good many bars and then kinda just riff off of it. Well this is what I got, a semi-original pseudo-composition.
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Quite a good composition you got there. If you ever publish it, let me know and I will be the first to buy it.
This program you use seems interesting. It even works on Max OS X, which I use. I might dowload it too. I’d like to record myself, so I can analyse my own playing.
ps: Thanks for adding me to your blogroll. I decided to start a blog in English too, because I noticed that I was the only one of the Dutch bloggers that ever used the tag ‘klarinet’. It’s nice to read the adventures of other clarinetist.
Thanks for the kind words.
I too enjoy reading the adventures of other musicians, I was happy to see an English version of your site.