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This is sort of a treatment of the Charles Ives composition – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowe%27en_(Ives) – but I don’t know. The connection is pretty tenuous.

This is what I think happened:

1) I took a recording of the piano quintet and fed it into MIDI Guitar, creating a MIDI track that would supposedly be a transcription for one guitar of the entire piece. Of course it was nothing of the kind, and it was pretty harsh.

2) I then took this MIDI and fed it to BIAB, requesting that it provide a band to accompany this harsh guitarist. I used style _BLUGRSF.STY but kept only RealTracks ~427:Bass, Acoustic, Bluegrass Ev 130 and ~428:Fiddle, Rhythm Bluegrass Ev 130.

3) I then combined the BIAB tracks with the MIDI “guitar” tracks, and did perform upon these tracks assorted acts of unprincipled editing, ultimately rendering a piece of some sort for organ, violin, recorder, and orchestral percussion, concluding with a dramatic snippet from the recording by Leonard Bernstein, which is the only part that sounds anything like the original.

Short and sweet, just 2 minutes. Parts of this are really snappy, and I am pleased. I think the fast organ passages came out really good. This is a deranged little TOE TAPPER!

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Last edited by Mark Hayes; 10/30/21 06:40 AM.