Song to the Siren, lute voice

2005-05-03 Thread carlos flores
Song to the Siren, on the renaissance lute: i played this without preparation, a one-take-recording, impromptu. Usually i'd mess it up at some point when recording like that but this time it didn't, so here it is if someone may like to listen to it:

RE: composers style, analysing for

2005-02-19 Thread carlos flores
Once one knows what 'rifs' and harmonic progressions typify a particular composers work, sure, it not hard to set up programs to throw the dice (ala mozarts game). Some composers did in have identifyable rythms and/or rifs; others are more subtle in their style. The machines can never

Re: lute siting

2005-02-14 Thread carlos flores
Another example perhaps of how uninformed film makers are about musical matters. Everything is authentic to the last detail except the music. Cheers Monica Oh yeah, its sometimes just ridiculous:) --like for example on this movie i saw sometime ago, there was this real romantic scene

Non-lute message

2005-01-28 Thread carlos flores
To those who saw the title non-lute, red the message, and made the effort to complain about it: with all my respect, I gave non-lute name of the message exactly for people like you, to spare you reading 'sucking' stuff. If, however it pleases you to complain, please go ahead. And before you

Re: Re: Carbon fiber strings

2005-01-26 Thread carlos flores
Jon wrote: I can agree with the beauty of the bass *** i'm not talking about the beauty of the bass (whatever that means), what i talk about is the fact that most of us, lute players, preffer a LONGER VIBRATING TONE. I've taken time to read some of your lenghtly writings (hard to find exactly what

100th monkey New Year:)

2005-01-01 Thread carlos flores
Dear Musical Beings! Happy New Year with lots of joy, health, inner peace, music, and integrity! I'd like to say a few words about our being human: We are human beings who are naturally connected. What divides us are purely intellectual notions of mental doctrines of all kind. They feed us

Re: Re:Jon

2005-01-01 Thread carlos flores
Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu,carlos flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re:Jon Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:16:37 -0500 Carlos, I agree entirely - I misspoke. Music is defined within one's self. My intent was merely to describe the transmission process from an external source

Re:Jon

2004-12-29 Thread carlos flores
Whatever I can show on the sillyscope or prove as to the effects of spinning bodies or conical strings on the actual tone production there is only one instrument that can define music. The human ear, in my case it’s more the Heart that defines music, but it doesn’t matter : big world, different