On JI software again

Hi

I forgot to mention that I prefer to use "midi" to write and compose
music (only because that's all I hear everyone uses).

Is "midi" the industry medium in which to compose and write music?

Please inform me of any other "formats and mediums" to compose and
write music in JI. And -of course- which programs are the most useful.

Thanks
Wally
http://members.aol.com/duanelives/

And -of course- which programs are the most useful.

Hi Wally

I use most of the common software programs on Mac and PC and by far
the best value is Robert's Fractal Tune Smithy. It does almost
everything you could want, and if it doesn't Robert is very amenable
to suggestions:-)

It's a no brainer.

If you want to hear some of what you can do listen to the opening
riffs of my Bardo Prayer. I was fooling with it to midi relay the
Tibetan scale (from Scala) when it spit out the opening (using its
algo-comp capabilities). I was transfixed and knew I had my opening.
The rest was put together on a Mac using Lisp, Logic and ProTools
(and GigaSampler), but its Roberts program that I use to train to
sing the new scales.

Bardo Prayer can be found on the page John Starret put up at
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/309/music_of_war_and_peace.html

Peace,
Mary

>
> Thanks
> Wally
> http://members.aol.com/duanelives/

Hi Mary

Thanks for your input. Your Bardo Prayer is very mysterious! How did
you get the voices in there? And Bird sounds? Great work! I will
check out FTS. Everyone keeps mentioning FTS and Scala.

Thanks
Wally

Hi Wally

The voices are all me singing. I record my voice through a Neumann
TLM 103 microphone which is fed to a Great River pre-amp and then
into an Apogee AD-8000 where it is converted to digits and then fed
into the computer through a ProTools Mix 24 system. I record
everything to SCSI hard drives, and mix in ProTools. On this
recording I am beginning to experiment with parametric compression
and EQ with a Waves C4 plugin which a lot of people rave about.
However I recently found a really good mastering professional and am
very happy I can throw the stuff at him and let him agonize over
levels and EQ.

NOthing in the piece was actually designated a Bird Call - it could
be my voice :-) or the shaker which is being run through a moving
bandpass filter.

Scala is a free program which can run alone, and I find its latest
GUI update much easier to manage. It also can be used within FTS -
thats what I use to "dial up" a scale.

FTS is seriously underpriced at 20 bucks given the amount of time
Robert puts into developing it. I am hoping it becomes the first
microtonal sequencer

Peace,
Mary

Hi Mary

Wow! your really well versed in the art of recording!

I downloaded and installed Fractal Tune Smithy and started "messin"
with the program. I can't believe this is a free download! I'm not
quite sure what I should be doing with this program right now as I'm
fairly new to this art. Any input would be of great help.

I'll contact Robert Walker to get the ball moving on this end.

Thanks again
Wally

Wally,

{you wrote...}
>Hi Mary
>Wow! your really well versed in the art of recording!

Keep in mind that Mary, at one point in her life, broke into Ft. Knox and made off with a Volvo station-wagon-load of gold bars, thus all the equipment. The only thing that keeps me from being cheezed off about it is that she utilizes all that gear in such a *damn* musical manner! :)

Jon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "Jonathan M. Szanto" <JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> >
> Keep in mind that Mary, at one point in her life, broke into Ft.
Knox and
> made off with a Volvo station-wagon-load of gold bars, thus all the
> equipment.

No it was a conscious decision when I left medicine I never wanted to
work that hard again, and I also didn't want to do poverty again.
I've done that enough lifetimes :-) So I learned to invest, but even
more important I have been working on my belief systems for more than
ten years. I am very willing to share that with anyone. The fact
that I know it works is that besides providing an abundant lifestyle
for myself my husband, who was was a poor artist who I met in
Woodstock at the Tibetan Monastary, is now a very skilled
trader/investor (and no one who meets him now believes that he hasn't
been doing it all his life).

Abundance is a physics principle that really can be learned. Most of
the artists and spiritual seekers I treasure as my friends have very
strong belief systems that a serious artist must be poor. If having
wealth means you are "corrupted" you are going to have great
difficulty manifesting in your life. There are also these tedious
vows of poverty so many of us have taken in prior religious lifetimes
that are still bleeding through into this one.

I know my ideas seem off the wall to most here. But hopefully my
life is "proof" tht there is something to the madness.

I am very willing to continue sharing these ideas if anyone is
curious.

Peace,
Mary

Yes Mary, I am curious. It is in my namesake.

Do tell.
GZ

nanom3@... wrote:

> --- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "Jonathan M. Szanto" <JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> > >
> > Keep in mind that Mary, at one point in her life, broke into Ft.
> Knox and
> > made off with a Volvo station-wagon-load of gold bars, thus all the
> > equipment.
>
> No it was a conscious decision when I left medicine I never wanted to
> work that hard again, and I also didn't want to do poverty again.
> I've done that enough lifetimes :-) So I learned to invest, but even
> more important I have been working on my belief systems for more than
> ten years. I am very willing to share that with anyone. The fact
> that I know it works is that besides providing an abundant lifestyle
> for myself my husband, who was was a poor artist who I met in
> Woodstock at the Tibetan Monastary, is now a very skilled
> trader/investor (and no one who meets him now believes that he hasn't
> been doing it all his life).
>
> Abundance is a physics principle that really can be learned. Most of
> the artists and spiritual seekers I treasure as my friends have very
> strong belief systems that a serious artist must be poor. If having
> wealth means you are "corrupted" you are going to have great
> difficulty manifesting in your life. There are also these tedious
> vows of poverty so many of us have taken in prior religious lifetimes
> that are still bleeding through into this one.
>
> I know my ideas seem off the wall to most here. But hopefully my
> life is "proof" tht there is something to the madness.
>
> I am very willing to continue sharing these ideas if anyone is
> curious.
>
> Peace,
> Mary
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

curious George books were among my favorites as a child.

Anyway some premises. You need to understand who you are as
basically a bioenergetic matrix (just like the movie Matrix)
programmed by belief systems from seven generations of your genetics,
your parents, your early environment and social consciousness - just
to start with!

Then you need to accept responsibility that everything that appears
in your life you create. Most people never realize that because most
of the creation is unconscious. In essence your job is one of
deprogramming the "default" settings you were born with and
resetting the parameters to something more to your consci0us liking.

I use statements like "Discreate all my beliefs preventing me from
recognizing my own inherent ability to create and manifest". Or more
simple ones like "make it obvious to me on a conscious level how I
created this disaster in my life" Then listen and be open because
spirit communicates symbolically (kind of like the computer can only
respond in C code)

It helps to be doing this with other people, either friends, who can
help keep you honest :-) or energetic healers who can see this stuff
in your field. Its a process, kind of like an archeological dig, and
the excavation can seem to take forever. (thats one reason I started
doing the music I do because I found for myself it hastened the
process, and I am a big one for doing things as easily and gracefully
as possible).

Actually thats another statement you can use - "Discreate everything
that prevents me from leading a life of abundance with grace and ease
(and humor)" The trick is to keep taking responsibility for
everything in your life, especially the bad stuff, and looking for
the roots in your belief systems (kind of like debugging a program to
find the bad lines of code)

Anyway that is gist of it. Oh and ask that the resources be brought
to your conscious attention to make the process of debuggin as fast
and easy as possible.

Peace,
Mary

Mary,

{you wrote...}
>No it was a conscious decision when I left medicine I never wanted to
>work that hard again, and I also didn't want to do poverty again.

...and the rest. Gosh, I hope my tongue-in-cheek reference didn't make you feel you needed to justify or explain all that gear! You know me well enough that I'm just happy you feel like making so much wonderful music!!

In any event, we could/can discuss some of these things, but if we get too deep into p/e ratios or whatever, maybe that discussion would be better on metatuning or spiritual_tuning.

Me? I'm a middle-class musician... :)

Bestest,
Jon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., nanom3@h... wrote:

/makemicromusic/topicId_862.html#864

> And -of course- which programs are the most useful.
>
> Hi Wally
>
> I use most of the common software programs on Mac and PC and by far
> the best value is Robert's Fractal Tune Smithy. It does almost
> everything you could want, and if it doesn't Robert is very
amenable
> to suggestions:-)
>
> It's a no brainer.
>
> If you want to hear some of what you can do listen to the opening
> riffs of my Bardo Prayer. I was fooling with it to midi relay the
> Tibetan scale (from Scala) when it spit out the opening (using its
> algo-comp capabilities). I was transfixed and knew I had my
opening.
> The rest was put together on a Mac using Lisp, Logic and ProTools
> (and GigaSampler), but its Roberts program that I use to train to
> sing the new scales.
>
> Bardo Prayer can be found on the page John Starret put up at
> http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/309/music_of_war_and_peace.html
>
>
> Peace,
> Mary
>

This is very, very nice...

_______ ________ ________
Joseph Pehrson

>
> This is very, very nice...
>
> _______ ________ ________
> Joseph Pehrson

Thanks Joe. I can only imagine how heavy it must feel to be in new
York right now, and my hope is that the music brings a little "fresh
air" to the listener.

Peace,
Mary

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., nanom3@h... wrote:

/makemicromusic/topicId_862.html#1116

> >
> > This is very, very nice...
> >
> > _______ ________ ________
> > Joseph Pehrson
>
>
>
> Thanks Joe. I can only imagine how heavy it must feel to be in new
> York right now, and my hope is that the music brings a
little "fresh air" to the listener.
>
> Peace,
> Mary

Thanks, Mary, for your nice message. Quite frankly, although still
going on, my composing is a bit slower than usual at this point.
It's hard to concentrate when I feel people are trying to kill us all
the time...

Peculiar, eh??

Joe