{"id":347,"date":"2007-09-15T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T00:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:23:12","slug":"fugue-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/fugue-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugue Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night I finished the first draft of my fugue. I say first draft because there are still a few notes that I am not happy with. In isolation each voice sounds consistent but all together&#8230; well there are some, not dischords exactly, but places I might be able to polish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eldest Brother asked me how I composed (did I use score?) so I figured I&#8217;d describe the process. Basically I have four MIDI tracks defined in a SONAR project, each configured to send to a single instance of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truepianos.com\/\">TruePianos<\/a>&nbsp;VST instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/fugue_track_view.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can tell from the segments that I have been building it up a few bars at a time, and then I tweak the notes in the piano-roll view, selecting a voice at a time to edit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/fugue_piano_roll_view.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This draft is very mechanical sounding. That&#8217;s ok given that it is a kind of &#8220;audio score&#8221;. In the final version I intend each voice to be performed in real-time on a different instrument (probably Piano, &#8220;Hammond&#8221;, Guitar, and Chapman Stick).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of the fugue leads directly into Part 4 of the full composition, which is why it finishes up with that shuffle chord sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<audio controls=\"controls\">\n   <source src=\"\/inevitable\/mp3stages\/fugue_pianos_demo_2007.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\n<\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finished the first draft of my fugue. I say first draft because there are still a few notes that I am not happy with. In isolation each voice sounds consistent but all together&#8230; well there are some, not dischords exactly, but places I might be able to polish. Eldest Brother asked me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}