spotty
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So...I really like early music: medieval, rennaisance, etc.
But the pipe organ kind of grates on me after a while though. (at least the big pull out all stops sound). Harpsichord kind of gets to me after a while too.
So, really, what the heck is wrong with using different sounds than that to play early music. If I want to use a hammond organ or nice fat analogue synth sound to play that kind of music, what's wrong with that. I know this is hardly original, Wendy Carlos did it with 'Switched on Bach'. And I thought it was really cool. Of course I'm not talking about adding drums and such to Bach! But whats wrong with working to play it well on 'Modern instruments?'
I didn't like 'Switched on Bach II' at all. Seems to me she loaded the whole thing into a sequencer and tried to make it 'perfect' which just sterilized it into flat lifeless computer music.
And hey, I know to truely capture what the composer intended etc. its probably best to play on the instrument he/she composed for. But I'm just trying to have fun.
Thoughts?
But the pipe organ kind of grates on me after a while though. (at least the big pull out all stops sound). Harpsichord kind of gets to me after a while too.
So, really, what the heck is wrong with using different sounds than that to play early music. If I want to use a hammond organ or nice fat analogue synth sound to play that kind of music, what's wrong with that. I know this is hardly original, Wendy Carlos did it with 'Switched on Bach'. And I thought it was really cool. Of course I'm not talking about adding drums and such to Bach! But whats wrong with working to play it well on 'Modern instruments?'
I didn't like 'Switched on Bach II' at all. Seems to me she loaded the whole thing into a sequencer and tried to make it 'perfect' which just sterilized it into flat lifeless computer music.
And hey, I know to truely capture what the composer intended etc. its probably best to play on the instrument he/she composed for. But I'm just trying to have fun.
Thoughts?