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Over the last few weeks I've begun tripping and cursing and toe-stubbing my way around the magical world of midi recording. The neatest thing so far has been seeing how easy it is go from playing a piece to printing out the score of what you just played. Crazy neat, in fact.
Much less neat has been the crackling I keep hearing coming from my headphones when I try to load more than one instrument in my brand new "Plug Sound Pro" soft synth. Or perhaps it's not the soft synth that's crackling and it's just that my head's on fire?
Anyways, here's the first result of all that toe-stubbing and crackling -- a Plug Sound Pro-free orchestral number that's the first instrumental on the old Virtual LP since Double Agent of Love, hit the charts in mainland China back in the summer of '04. This one's called (Gibbous Moon) because I like song titles with parentheticals. And I like the word "gibbous."
Keep on rocking (in the gibbous world),
-Cecil
time: 1:02 seconds; specs: (Less than) 1 mb
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Very nice, Cecil. I picture besotted teenagers crossing a bridge together over Osaka before the bullet train tears them asunder. Keep 'em coming!
... with a gibbous moon in the background, of course.
I like "gibbous" too. Does it apply only to moons? That's the only place I ever think to use it. What about gibbous meats, gibbous auto parts, gibbous pet supplies? There's one for the Plug Sound Pro: (Gibbous Pet Supplies).
Or just a lovely way to start a Friday morning. Thank you!
Thanks to ya both. This was a fun one to pull together, midi madness aside. R to the K: "gibbous" can also mean hunchback/humpback (is there a difference?). And more generally, convex, protruberant.
In the spirit of the Bob Holman creativity interview and his advice re looking to other writers for vocabulary words, I've started writing down favorite Pynchon words -- "gibbous" was in fact plucked from our old pal Against the Day.....
-Cecil