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Post by colan on Oct 28, 2014 11:26:08 GMT
Here's a short piece I composed for bicycles; app.box.com/s/z08j7ozseovizxvcr8f3I used ' Audacity ' for the recording and mixing as it's a FREE and powerful sequencer; audacity.sourceforge.net/Now, you might wonder ' what's the point of playing a bicycle ? ' Feel free.  The piece actually has lyrics and I'm contemplating posting the whole thing in ' The Plucky Duck '. Of course, I can be dissuaded . |
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Post by ocarolan on Oct 28, 2014 17:52:14 GMT
That was great, colan , I especially loved the pedal notes, which really spoke to me. Well recorded, with no dropouts.  Keith |
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Post by colan on Oct 28, 2014 18:13:42 GMT
Thank you, Keith, that's really pumped me up.
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Post by andrewjw on Oct 28, 2014 19:01:29 GMT
My bell is well and truly rung.. |
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Post by vikingblues on Oct 28, 2014 19:58:09 GMT
Did a chain of events lead to this idea? Sorry.
It's more musical than a lot of music I've heard on conventional instruments. More successful than I recall my experiments were with musique concrete many, many, many years ago.
It has rises and falls in tempo and tension too .....what's not to like!
I'm intrigued by the thought of the version with lyrics.
Mark
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Post by colan on Oct 28, 2014 20:21:09 GMT
Indeed it did. The framework was constructed, circa. 1984 , when a TAD292 Open University tutor saddled me with the task of writing a duet for bicycle and sheep. I've still got the cassette tape somewhere and I recall many close encounters with village bikes. One such recent encounter rekindled the project- albeit written without any ' bahs ' as I'm short of a sheep. |
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Post by colan on Oct 31, 2014 10:29:19 GMT
Here are the lyrics;
'A campus collision'
Toffs, on podiatric rotors
sampling their quiet of day
Plebs, astride mosquitoed motors
bevved and revved the quiet away
Enraged, the pedal-powered commuters
trampled the offending scooters
( several dozen angered reps
of Campagnolo quadriceps )
Alarm ! Alarm ! Alarm bells clang
and wreckage round quadrangles rang
Pumps and pillions checked and decked
and giving it some plantar aspect.
Cyclops cyclist, hero-like,
extracting a surviving bike
surrenders to his urge to flee
a cultural catastrophe.OK- so it ain't Laureate material. Irrefutably challenging, nonetheless. |
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Post by vikingblues on Oct 31, 2014 11:48:01 GMT
That's made me even more intrigued at the thought of hearing the version with lyrics. Seriously good lyrics and I like the rhythmic power in the way you've used the words. Shame about the sheep shortage. I've been keeping an eye on the small ads to see if any sheep are looking for a job as a vocalist but no luck yet. I'll refer them on to you if I see one.  Mark |
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Post by colan on Nov 1, 2014 10:26:27 GMT
I'll post it on The Duck. Don't worry about the sheep though. She was actually a goat- but the OU tutor didn't suss it. Also, due to the wonders of digital audio and sampling, Poppy's vocals are immortalised. |
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Post by pnut on Nov 11, 2014 17:44:21 GMT
If you wrote a duet you could play it on a tandem |
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Post by colan on Nov 11, 2014 18:57:03 GMT
Haw, haw, haw.  I'll put it to the steering committee. |
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Post by andrewjw on Nov 11, 2014 19:21:41 GMT
I thought you said she was a goat??  |
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Post by colan on Nov 11, 2014 19:48:37 GMT
Bleats me. Oh well, off to band practice.  |
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Post by ujb on Dec 14, 2014 12:44:52 GMT
Just loved it. In a former life I was a bike mechanic and frame builder and this brought back so many fond memories
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Post by colan on Dec 14, 2014 15:15:11 GMT
Magic. What was your sheep's name ?
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Jo whoever he is.
