Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Debussy - Children's Corner etc
Many of the Debussy MIDI files in my collection are subject to copyright as performance recodings but some are in the public domain and they provided some interesting challenges.
I have sustained the commitment to the steel drums here but combined them with several other synthesizers to fit the demands of the piece. Although I was very familiar with Golliwog's Cakewalk the other pieces in the Children's Corner were much less familliar but great fun none the less.
The impressionistic pieces - The Island of Joy and Garden in the Rain both seemed to respond well to a new treatment and continued to evoke the kind of visual imagry so characteristic of Debussy's work.
I have sustained the commitment to the steel drums here but combined them with several other synthesizers to fit the demands of the piece. Although I was very familiar with Golliwog's Cakewalk the other pieces in the Children's Corner were much less familliar but great fun none the less.
The impressionistic pieces - The Island of Joy and Garden in the Rain both seemed to respond well to a new treatment and continued to evoke the kind of visual imagry so characteristic of Debussy's work.
