AMD / MEMUSI 96 / Midi2Wav
By Claus Kucher
- - - AMD
Yes, AMD as an acronym should be okay (and it would be even better to incorporate "mechanical music" in a sophisticated way).
- - - MEMUSI 96
AMD is an electronic newsletter too - so it has to be updated very quick (what do I say?) and even I am in a great hurry I _have_ to find the time to send a (quick and dirty) report of MEMUSI 96, which took place here in Vienna from 5. - 8. of September.
Yesterday the 14th traditional meeting of friends of *ME*chanical *MUSI*c 1996 in Vienna/Austria was closed with
Wohlklingendes melodius sounded
Coethensches Classic
Drehorgel barrel organ
Otium performance with cheerful basic sound
at the roman-catholic church of St.Anton. I don't know the meaning of 'Coethensches' (if somebody wants to know that I can ask the inventor and "showmaster" Dr. Kurt Klimt, he will visit Vienna again within 3 weeks). Never heard such a mixed concert of serenades, chorals, and ouvertures from Haydn, Bach, Liszt, Haendel, Mozart, Vivaldi, Puccini and others for more than one and a half hours without any stop. And the final tune, yes yes, "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" (stories from Vienna wood) from Johann Strausz Sohn, unbelieveable in a church - but no problem because Monsignore Vollnhofer, the local priest, told us then his pleasure. The concert was done by
Jan Ables - Uithuizer Meeden/Netherlands
20 Raffin, Ueberlingen barrel organ
Josef Lechner - Schongau/Germany
37 Jager & Brommer, Waldkirch
Angelina Abels - Uithuizer Meeden/Netherlands
31 Raffin, Ueberlingen
Dr. Kurt Klimt - Thurau/Germany
20 Raffin, Ueberlingen
On 4th of september the festival started besides the official program with a visit to the grave of Prof. Karl Nagl - he died 2 years before and was not only a well known accordion player and singer of the "Wienerlied". Coming from his profession as an organ builder he was also the owner of a great collection of various mechanical music instruments now continued by his sons Karl and Peter Nagl. After then a movie was shown at a traditional "Heuriger", presented by the "Wiener Volksliedwerk" (Vienna Folk Song Archive), showing performances of Karl Nagl.
Next day - after the participants played in the boarding houses in various districts of Vienna, who did sponsoring of the festival, the meeting was inaugurated paired with the opening of Tivoli-Center, a new stage-room at "Boehmischer Prater" (Bohemian Prater: note the difference 'The one with the highest placed giant wheel').
Also the CD "MEMUSI - Drehorgelmusik aus dem Boehmischen Prater No.1" was presented in memoriam to Otto Geissler and Prof. Karl Nagl. You can hear a cross-section trough the Vienna scene of automatic music at a very good high quality level. Postal orders may be placed to
Club Monte Laa
attention Mr. Wilhelm Heidenhofer
Laaer Wald 218
A-1100 Vienna / Austria
Tel. & Fax +43 1 6163912
the price is ATS 190 and cost of dispatch. (Robbie: wait a while, snail mail is still carrying this piece to you).
On Friday the players performed the whole day at some local centers and streets/pedestrian zones.
Saturday was very cold, storm and rain - so the reason why MEMUSI took place one week later than usual, the combination with great festival of "Millenium" (Ostarrichi was first founded in 996), could not happen - no performances at all. Only the mass at Evangelic (Augsburger Bekenntnis) church at Dorotheergasse could come off.
On Saturday, the last day, the weather was still very cold, but playing was possible in the center of Vienna as well as Boehmischer Prater. Surprisingly many people was perhaps thinking "there is no bad weather only bad clothing" and come to hear and cheer to the various performances - so the meeting did not lack of the festival character.
Although I was out of town nearly half of the meeting, thanks to Wolfgang Geissler, who introduced myself to Jan Ables, the owner of a "Tanzbaer" (dancing bear) - self playing accordion from Hofbauer, I could see and even play on that 20 tones instrument. And I also had a short talk with Kurt Schumacher from Stuttgart/Germany, owner of 37er Hofbauer Harmonipan - now I know much more about that electronic controlled instrument.
In a short way - that's all till now.
- - - MIDI 2 WAV
The FM-synthesizer use F-requency M-odulation to simulate musical instruments ... and do a poor job on _real_ instruments.
The wavetable-synthesizer simple read out pre-sampled sounds from a memory ... sound quality seems to depend mainly on the length of the recording.
(Does anybody know something about the quality of "physical modeling"-programs?)
But what algorithms are occupied from Midi-2-wav render programs? Sorry, Tommy Anderberg, about a half a year ago I tried your 'WAVmaker'-program but was not able to render a Midi-file within a reasonable portion of time; maybe your collection of program-modules will have a more intuitive GUIdance as a Windows-version?
Greetings from Austria - the country with no atomic-energy-power-plants as to people election. :)
Claus Kucher |
(Message sent Mon 9 Sep 1996, 11:01:14 GMT, from time zone GMT+0200.) |
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