Will, it's great to have you back. And I am rather happy you were "the
Yoshimi guy" in that way, I daresay it fits :-)
I have much hope for the Non people, that project set seems to be
gathering some very happy steam.
Quite a long time ago I believe I visited that same museum, quite a
place it was. And Heidelberg Castle was unbelievable, it is still the
standard for my perspective on the large end of the spectrum for the
noun "castle" :-)
Jonathan E. Brickman
Ponderworthy Music | jeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (785)233-9977 |
http://ponderworthy.com <http://ponderworthy.com/>
------ Original Message ------
From: "Will Godfrey" <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: yoshimi-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 5/7/2014 1:25:37 PM
Subject: Re: [yoshimi-user] Nothing much - I'm Baaaack!
Dija miss me? didja, didja?
I got home in the middle of yesterday evening which was just right for
buying
some essentials, a quick meal, unpack then off to bed.
Oh, yes, you probably want to hear about the event. Well, it was
fantastic :D
The keynote speech was quite unusual, starting with "What's wrong with
Linux
audio?", then a long list of *commercial* audio kit with Linux based
engines to
"Where the f@@@ is everyone?" a show of hands revealing precisely one
chip
manufacturer with a representative there. After this it was a well
researched
and mostly positive speech. The conference proper spanned 3 days, and
covered a
huge range of topics, with a number of hands-on workshops in parallel.
The evening concerts were in two sessions, the early ones being audio
rather
than music, featuring mostly weird and wonderful surround sound stuff -
not
really my scene. The later sessions were less formal and definitely
music,
whether that be computer generated (under real-time programming),
beatboxing,
dj mixing and mashups, along with 'normal' instrument playing.
I drooled over all the nice toys, both software and hardware - one guy
even 3d
printing the case for his project. I learned a great deal about the
current
state of a whole host of Linux based projects, and had the chance to
chat with
the developers. I was also able to talk about the work on the Yoshimi
soft
synth I'm getting involved with, and got a lot of support and helpful
suggestions. I became seriously chuffed to be identified as "The
Yoshimi guy",
and absolutely delighted by the comments on my voice patch sets.
I was able to put lots of faces to names, and was impressed with the
wide age
range, and the number of "Non men" (as the keynote speaker called
them). The
crowd were really friendly, and it seemed that each time I went for
lunch or
dinner it was with different groups of people!
On the Sunday (for for those that wanted to stay over) there was a trip
to a
mechanical musical instrument museum, ranging from simple music boxes
to
full-blown fairground automatons. I was surprised to see one of the
flat disk
players very like one I dimly remember my grandmother had.
After this there was a lunch where we took over most of a local
restaurant :)
I stayed an extra day, and took a train to Heidelberg, becoming a good,
money
spending tourist. An absolute must was to go up to the castle. Let me
tell you,
Heidelberg castle is big, very *big*
While I was there I came across a musician trio playing on the 'old'
bridge.
They were clarinet, sax, and guitar. Initially I was going to chuck
some
'shrapnel' in their pot, but quickly changed to feeling around for a
Euro -
that was until the sax player did his solo spot, and I upgraded to 2
Euro. He
was really, really good. As well as taking, and improvising on the
melody he
put in some positively rippling arpeggios, but not in a 'look how
clever I am
way'.
Well there you go...
Now I have a lot of catching-up to do ::
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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