| Fantasy in F (Malinowski) - 475 sec
I wrote this between 1979 and 1981. This performance has a lot of mistakes in it; I'll try to do a better one.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: fantasy malinowski piano scrolling score bar-graph piiano-roll
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| Fugue in A minor (by smalin) - 322 sec
More about this video: I composed this four-part fugue in 1982; sheet music for this (and most of my other pieces) is available online (free) at
www.musanim.com/scores/compositions.html
This is the first video I've uploaded in high resolution (480 x 360 at 60 frames per second), and a side-effect of this is that the audio is garbled. I'll try to figure this out and get a version up that doesn't have this problem.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: fugue counterpoint score scrolling bar-graph player-piano Malinowski
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| Frog Round (apology) - 60 sec
When I made a video of the Frog Round, I thought the poem was by Ogden Nash, and didn't know who wrote the music (I thought it was in the public domain), so I included Nash's name on the title screen and "???" for the composer of the music.
YouTube viewers liked the Frog Round, which led me to think that I might want to put it on a DVD someday, so I started trying to find the author(s), to get permission to use it.
After a couple of years, I hadn't gotten very far. I'd learned that the poem was not by Ogden Nash. One woman wrote to say she had a handwritten copy of the poem that had been given to her father (who was born in 1920) by his first grade teacher, and other wrote to say they thought it dated back to the 1800s, but I wasn't able to find anything authoritative.
Then, on March 18, 2008, Kevin (of The You Tube Team) sent me an email asking me to confirm that I "own the rights or publicity rights or have explicit permission to commercially use all video material and music, including background music, lyrics, and composition" for the Frog Round. When I told him that I didn't, he wrote back that "...because you were unable to provide proof that you do own all rights or have express permission ... we must remove this video in accordance with our copyright policies," and the video was taken down.
Since then, I've kept looking.
I thought I'd found the answer when I came across the round in the book Mastering Music, published in 1970. The lyrics were said to be "French Canadian" (presumably meaning a folk poem in the public domain), and the music was credited to Maurice Jacobson, and included with the permission of J. Curwen & Sons. I asked Aida Garcia-Cole, the Print Licensing Manager for Curwen's U.S. representative, about the copyright status of the round; she responded "I've heard back from my colleague at J. Curwen & Sons. Unfortunately, they are unable to identify this work as being controlled by J Curwen & Sons Limited. They do not appear to have any contractual documentation to support any claim for this work."
However, the answer may be contained in another piece by Maurice Jacobson, Six Descants To Popular Tunes (published in 1928). One of these is titled "The Frog (A Round)," which suggests (though it doesn't establish conclusively) that it was a popular tune at that time. That music is out of print, but a score is in the collection of British Music Information Centre, and I'm making arrangements to see a copy; hopefully, it will shed some light on the question of authorship.
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Auteur : smalin
Tags: frog round nash jacobson queer bird
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| Button Shield for Roland VP-550 - 3 sec
Roland made a mistake by putting the infrared sensor near buttons that control the settings; when you're waving your hand around near the sensor, it's easy to accidentally change the settings, which can be a disaster during a live performance. My button shield isn't an ideal solution (since it makes it harder to change the settings when you want to), but it is an improvement.
Three of my videos use the VP-550 for the soundtrack; look for tags with VP-550 (or VP550) in them.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: VP-550 VP550 roland vocoder button waving infrared expression
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| Lips Tonguelesse (2nd try) - 107 sec
Poem by Robert Herrick, music and graphics by Stephen Malinowski. This version uses the "Vocoder 2" setting of the VP-550.
Here's the full text of the poem:
For my part, I never care
For those lips, that tongue-ty'd are:
Tell-tales I wo'd have them be
Of my Mistresse, and of me.
Let them prattle how that I
Sometimes freeze, and sometimes frie:
Let them tell how she doth move
Fore- or backward in her love:
Let them speak by gentle tones,
One and th'others passions:
How we watch, and seldome sleep;
How by Willowes we doe weep:
How by stealth we meet, and then
Kisse, and sigh, so part agen.
This the lips we will permit
For to tell, not publish it.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: VP-550 VP550 Herrick Malinowski poem Lips score scrolling music animation graphics
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| Lips Tonguelesse (1st try) - 107 sec
Poem by Robert Herrick, music and graphics by Stephen Malinowski. This version uses the "Classic" setting of the VP-550.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: music animation herrick malinowski score graphics scrolling harpsichord
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| The Amber Bead (2nd version) - 83 sec
Poem by Robert Herrick, music and graphics by Stephen Malinowski
Auteur : smalin
Tags: VP-550 VP550 Herrick poetry music animation visualization score harpsichord
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| Marvel Not, Joseph - 239 sec
Learn about this music and video here: http://www.musanim.com/ProductionNotes/MarvelNotJoseph.html
Auteur : smalin
Tags: VP-550 VP550 medieval carol music organ counterpoint Christmas cherry tree
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| Berkeley Bowl Mushrooms - 158 sec
The Berkeley Bowl Marketplace has a produce section with a nice assortment of mushrooms; here's a slow pan through them; the more interesting ones are at the end. (Note: there's no sound track on this; it was just the sound of people walking around the market.) This video is not meant as entertainment; it's just documentation of the selection of mushrooms at that store.
Auteur : smalin
Tags:mushroom berkeley
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| Rocky Road Ripple - 341 sec
Visual-electronic piece composed by Richard Grayson (1998) for presentation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (L.A.C.M.A.), accompanied by a scrolling bar-graph score.
Grayson's description of the piece can be read here:
http://faculty.oxy.edu/rgrayson/RRRdescription.html
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Auteur : smalin
Tags: rocky road ripple music bargraph scrolling score
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| Tapper (demo of the Conductor Program) - 114 sec
A brief demonstration of Stephen Malinowski's implementation of the conductor program (see article at http://www.musanim.com/tapper/ )
Auteur : smalin
Tags: music conducting software
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| A Little Ranch Music - 173 sec
Composition, performance, visualization by Stephen Malinowski (smalin)
Production notes and other background on this piece can be found at http://www.musanim.com/ProductionNotes/ALittleRanchMusic.html
Go to http://www.musanim.com/watch/ for more about this movie and others.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: music score ranch scrolling animation malinowski
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| The Amber Bead (1st version) - 75 sec
More of my videos (and other stuff) can be found here: http://www.musanim.com/watch/
Info for this video
Poem by Robert Herrick, music and graphics by Stephen Malinowski.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: amber bead music herrick fly cleopatra animation score
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| Bach Organ Trio Sonata III (BWV 527), 3rd movement - 219 sec
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Info for this video
Bach Organ Trio Sonata III (BWV 527), 3rd movement.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: bach organ trio sonata triosonata music animation scrolling score
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| Liszt, Feux Follets, S.139, R.2b, #5 - 233 sec
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Info for this video
Piano music by Franz Liszt, accompanied by a scrolling bar-graph score. MIDI performance courtesy of Robert Finley.
Auteur : smalin
Tags:liszt piano feux bar-graph score scrolling animation
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| Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sein - 212 sec
More of my videos (and other stuff) can be found here: http://www.musanim.com/watch/
Info for this video
The last piece Bach wrote. Performed here on a Post Clavichord. Accompanied by a scrolling, bar-graph score.
Auteur : smalin
Tags:bach chorale clavichord score scrolling animation music
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| Bach's "Little" Fugue - 218 sec
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Info for this video
J. S. Bach's "Little" Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, with a scrolling bar-graph score. The instrument here is a Post fortepiano; the pedal part is doubled an octave down. Rendition by Stephen Malinowski (smalin) using the conductor program.
A display like this can be made with the Music Animation Machine MIDI File Player (http://www.musanim.com/player/)
Auteur : smalin
Tags: bach organ fortepiano music fugue counterpoint animation visualization score scrolling
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| Computer Sings About the Devil - 179 sec
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Info for this video
Third movement of J. S. Bach's Cantata 54, Widerstehe doch der Suende. Strings and alto voice are synthetic.
Wer Suende thut, der ist vom Teufel,
Denn dieser hat sie aufgebracht.
Doch wenn man ihren schnoeden Banden
Mit rechter Andacht widerstanden,
Hat sie sich gleich davon gemacht.
He who sins is of the devil,
For he has incited him;
But if we resist his heinous snares
With righteous devotion,
He will soon be put to flight.
Auteur : smalin
Tags:music bach cantata alto devil computer score scrolling animation
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| In Nomine (John Bull) - 201 sec
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Info for this video
John Bull's In Nomine. XII in Musica Britannica, XXXVII in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
Note: If you have trouble with sync or audio quality, go to www.vimeo.com/user=musanim/clips and download the original (m4v) version.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: bull music visualization score counterpoint scrolling bar-graph
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| Fantasy a 3 (Wm. Byrd) - 132 sec
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Info for this video
Contrapuntal keyboard music by William Byrd, performed by Stephen Malinowski, with video of hands playing and scrolling bar-graph score.
Production notes for this video are at
http://www.musanim.com/ProductionNotes/FantasyA3.html
Note: If you have trouble with sync or audio quality, go to www.vimeo.com/user=musanim/clips and download the original (m4v) version.
Auteur : smalin
Tags: byrd fantasy fantasia music keyboard piano scrolling score animation
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