Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[Maciek]

Actually, it works with Scortch! Just "open" IN OPERA and the score will display.

It's not as easy as that for me, though, because I'm not on a Windows machine. After a short hassle (had to install a Windows internet browser in Wine - a Windows emulator - then install the Windows version of Scortch there). However, in my version the scores are tiny, hardly readable - I will probably have to tweak the Wine video settings somewhere, I'll report back if it works (in case there are other Linux users around). Right now have to get back to work. Cheers everyone.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Actually, it works with Scortch! Just "open" IN OPERA and the score will display.

It's not as easy as that for me, though, because I'm not on a Windows machine. After a short hassle (had to install a Windows internet browser in Wine - a Windows emulator - then install the Windows version of Scortch there). However, in my version the scores are tiny, hardly readable - I will probably have to tweak the Wine video settings somewhere, I'll report back if it works (in case there are other Linux users around). Right now have to get back to work. Cheers everyone.

DAMN... You're brilliant! I'll have a try.

Works!

[karlhenning]

Damn . . . Maciek is brilliant! 

[lukeottevanger]

I think Guido must convert the files for us non-Sibelians...

Surely we are all Sibelians round here, though, even if not all Brianites. (sitting on my musing tuffet......I think a rival notation pacakage called Brian - default setting: side drums come in threes - would be fantastic!)

Thanks, Guido - haven't had a chance to look through these yet (shouldn't really do so on the school's computer) - a PDF would be good, actually, even for those like me who do have Sibelius.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Surely we are all Sibelians round here, though, even if not all Brianites. (sitting on my musing tuffet......I think a rival notation pacakage called Brian - default setting: side drums come in threes - would be fantastic!)

Thanks, Guido - haven't had a chance to look through these yet (shouldn't really do so on the school's computer) - a PDF would be good, actually, even for those like me who do have Sibelius.

Very good!  (And an unreconfigurable tamtam stroke at the end of every composition.)

[lukeottevanger]

Naturally. (And double dots should be the first available option - you have to search around for single ones.)

[lukeottevanger]

...The Sibelius Scorch to be replaced by the Brian Burn...


...And instead of the opening of Sib 5 when the program starts up, we hear the pounding opening of The Gothic.... wow! 

I want it!!!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

We forgot the (distant) brass bands, of course.

[lukeottevanger]

'Untuned Percussion' drop-down menu to run as follows:

Timpani
More Timpani
More Timpani
More Timpani
More Timpani
Scarecrow
Side drums (3)
More Timpani
Bass Drum
Another Bass Drum
More Timpani
Wind machine
Bird Scare
Scaring bird device
Rattle (to scare birds)
Long drum or Log drum, it's up to you
More Timpani

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

 

[Guido]

...The Sibelius Scorch to be replaced by the Brian Burn...


...And instead of the opening of Sib 5 when the program starts up, we hear the pounding opening of The Gothic.... wow! 

I want it!!!

LOL!

Thing is, I'll have to create 25 pdfs and 25 midis... (for things that hardly seem worth it!) Maybe I'll do it later.

[karlhenning]

...I think a rival notation pacakage called Brian . . . .

When will Bwian be weweased?

[karlhenning]

Excellent! But - no rush...

Well done, Johan!  Enjoyed reading, though I doubt I should enjoy shopping for groceries there.  Bohuslav & Taco is mighty fine, deserves to be an intersection in East L.A.  You could let Tom Waits mention it in a song, but you should negotiate a good permissions deal.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Well done, Johan!  Enjoyed reading, though I doubt I should enjoy shopping for groceries there.  Bohuslav & Taco is mighty fine, deserves to be an intersection in East L.A.  You could let Tom Waits mention it in a song, but you should negotiate a good permissions deal.

Thanks, Karl! I hope some of the force and stylistic individuality of the original came through. This is the best I can do.

[karlhenning]

Strong, and a good voice.  Wish we could read more of your work!  I once toyed with the idea of learning Dutch (perhaps predictably, when Louis Andriessen was a visiting professor at Buffalo) . . . but I'm sure I don't have time for the learning curve in order properly to appreciate your work in your own tongue!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Strong, and a good voice.  Wish we could read more of your work!  I once toyed with the idea of learning Dutch (perhaps predictably, when Louis Andriessen was a visiting professor at Buffalo) . . . but I'm sure I don't have time for the learning curve in order properly to appreciate your work in your own tongue!

Yes, my use of Dutch is quite demanding...

First I'll have to finish and publish my magnum opus. Then it has to reach and convince a Dutch audience. And then foreign publishers will, hopefully, be interested. I hope I'll live to a ripe old age...

[Sorry for hogging your thread, Luke. It'll pass...  0:)]

[karlhenning]

Luke won't mind; this sub-topic will yield presently to a neighborly flame war 

[lukeottevanger]

Luke doesn't mind: the Outpost welcomes squatters.

[Guido]

Here's Pdfs, and a few midis. Warning: some of these 'pieces' are very juvenile and silly!

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=85b03aac3371ec39ab1eab3e9fa335ca055404f9b7c61579

I like the way the harmony of the one bar '3 cello piece' makes no sense without the melody (or top line). I'm pretty sure that was exactly what I was aiming at! Also at making nice harmonies using just three notes at a time (I cheated on the last note...)

I've also just found a rather curious set of variations for solo cello in Aminor - the neatness of these has to be seen to be believed! I'll scan it later.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Luke doesn't mind: the Outpost welcomes squatters.

Squatter's grateful, kind Sir.