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OrzoMondo
Italy
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 6 มี.ค. 2021
I create electronic arrangements of classical pieces for my own entertainment. In this (2021) lockdown, stay-at-home year, I picked up this old passion of mine. Back in the early 90s I had a Yamaha QY10, on which, laboriously, I transcribed Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
What I found out in the last few weeks is that there are many tools and resources online, some of them free, others rather cheap, and you only need a laptop and an audio interface to do much more with a lot less effort. Maybe in the future I will share some of my experience in getting up to speed for others who share the same passion.
Note: My music is available in HD at 1drv.ms/f/s!AvOkSQl49ZPTgS4Xs6goQGtkXqW6 for anyone to use freely. Find the link to the music files in the Links section below.
What I found out in the last few weeks is that there are many tools and resources online, some of them free, others rather cheap, and you only need a laptop and an audio interface to do much more with a lot less effort. Maybe in the future I will share some of my experience in getting up to speed for others who share the same passion.
Note: My music is available in HD at 1drv.ms/f/s!AvOkSQl49ZPTgS4Xs6goQGtkXqW6 for anyone to use freely. Find the link to the music files in the Links section below.
J.S. Bach - Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: Prelude (Synthesized)
If one excludes the beginning and the end, this incredible, INCREDIBLE composition, consists of about 130 bars of semiquavers (sixteenth notes), in one continuous monophonic garland that travels up and down and left and right through the violin fingerboard.
Bach does it twice, this trick of using one melodic line, virtually without rhythm variations: once here, and the other one in another prelude for the cello. A piece that everybody knows (not that this violin one is less famous).
Trying to emphasize the form, I focused on expression, dynamics and articulation, with very subtle tone variations. I think I must have edited every single note for expression and timing. I don't know how many tempo changes there are, I am tempted to say at least one every four sixteenths. Yet if it were a building, it would be a minimalist one. "Keep it clean" I kept repeating to myself.
However, I could not resist, at the very end, to add a bit of a surprise.
Bach does it twice, this trick of using one melodic line, virtually without rhythm variations: once here, and the other one in another prelude for the cello. A piece that everybody knows (not that this violin one is less famous).
Trying to emphasize the form, I focused on expression, dynamics and articulation, with very subtle tone variations. I think I must have edited every single note for expression and timing. I don't know how many tempo changes there are, I am tempted to say at least one every four sixteenths. Yet if it were a building, it would be a minimalist one. "Keep it clean" I kept repeating to myself.
However, I could not resist, at the very end, to add a bit of a surprise.
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Work in Progress: Bach/Busoni, Ciaccona BWV 1004 - Part I - RFC
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I am still working on this one, it's challenging, and it's long. However I decided I would post my effort so far, so that if you happen to listen to it, and note a particular variation that you like, or dislike, you could perhaps help me to decide what works and what does not, hence the "Request For Comments" title. This is about half of the Ciaccona, variations 1 to 34 of 65. The number of the...
Work in Progress: Bach/Busoni, Ciaccona BWV 1004 - Read along
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Forgive me for yet another half-baked video, but this is such a long and difficult piece, that although I am pouring hours upon hours on it, it seems I am making very little progress. If you can read music, I hope you will enjoy this video and the transcription nonetheless. If you are an amateur, the final version is getting nearer, and I promise it's not that far away, so bear with me. The tru...
Work in Progress: Bach/Busoni, Ciaccona BWV 1004 - 040-053
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I cannot resist to share another part of the Ciaccona, this one comprising repetitions No. 40 to 53. As for the previous, the sound is temporary. For now, I am entirely focused on getting the tempo right. Even with this basic sound, the power of this music is incredible, would you agree?
Work in Progress: Bach/Busoni, Ciaccona BWV 1004 - 054-END
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Bach's Ciaccona in D minor is perhaps one of the greatest achievements of one of the greatest musical over-achievers ever. It is not an easy piece, not to play nor to listen to, but once one gets familiar with it, it starts unveiling layer after layer of incredible complexity and nuance, and the emotional impact becomes stronger and stronger. A "Ciaccona" is a series of repetitions (or variatio...
J.S. Bach - BWV 54 - Cantata "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" - 03 Aria "Wer Sünde tut…" (Synthesized)
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I'll be honest, I am not sure about this one. I have been working on it for months, I still don't know if I found the right angle.
J.S. Bach - BWV 683 - Choralbearbeitung "Vater unser im Himmelreich" (Synthesized)
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Short, sweet, and, as usual for Bach, intense.
J.S. Bach - BWV 951 - Fugue in B minor on a Theme by Tomaso Albinoni (Synthesized)
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This Fugue is a bit atypical in the context of Bach's production. The subject is borrowed from Tomaso Albinoni (hello fellow Venetian!), and specifically from the second movement of the trio sonata Op. 1 No. 8 (th-cam.com/video/rdi3G5oqv_E/w-d-xo.html), and in fact this fugue "does not sound as Bach". The beautiful chromatic theme, which, in the hands of Albinoni is already stunning (it's alrea...
J.S. Bach - Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 (Synthesized)
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As promised, Fantasia & Fuga together. Also found in two individual videos here: th-cam.com/video/D5nhLl-cetk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/dwUAa0zr-zM/w-d-xo.html 0:00 Fantasia 3:46 Fuga
J.S. Bach - Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - Fantasia (Synthesized)
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I've entertained the idea of re-arranging Elgar's transcription of this Fantasia & Fugue, but after I spent few hours on the score, I realised that, aside from some quite daring percussion and two Harps playing block chords (arpeggiati of course), Elgar did not really add much substance to the original. Quite a difference from Ferruccio Busoni or Sergei Rachmaninoff's transcriptions. Elgar's tr...
J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 33 "Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" - 1 Chor (Synthesized)
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This is a fascinating piece to me, firstly because it does not know whether to be in A minor or C major, hence the little joke at the end, although that's yet another tonality (A major), secondly because it is rare to hear so much of the minor melodic scale, and lastly, because I hear a lot of Vivaldi in it. Few notes on the visualization: the score is divided into three major instrumentation g...
J.S. Bach - Chorale Prelude BWV 645: "Wachet auf" ("Sleepers Awake") (Synthesized)
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This is the first of the six Schübler Chorales, published it in 1747. The model for this prelude is the fourth movement of BWV 140, a cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity, a tune universally known as "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", or "Sleepers Awake!"
J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book II - Fugue No. 16 in G minor, BWV 885 (Synthesized)
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The final result. After mastering the audio and producing a video based on the music score, and creating a summer-themed cover of our hero with the help of AI, here is the Fugue No. 16 in all its glory. If you are curious about the process I used to get to this point, please check out the previous videos: Stage I: th-cam.com/video/JSR6CmajCZM/w-d-xo.html Stage II: th-cam.com/video/5DNzVCL5bYE/w...
Birth of a Fugue - Tutorial: Part IV
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This is the fourth of a multipart "tutorial" about the workflow I use to create my videos. This is the fugue No. 16 of the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, in G minor, BWV 885. My process/workflow is composed of 8 stages: 1 - Score correctness and input 2 - Articulation and ornaments 3 - Sounds & Effects 4 - Tempo 5 - Levels 6 - Dynamics & Automation 7 - Mastering 8 - Video This video is about st...
Birth of a Fugue - Tutorial: Part III
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This is the third of a multipart "tutorial" about the workflow I use to create my videos. This is the fugue No. 16 of the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, in G minor, BWV 885. My process/workflow is composed of 8 stages: 1 - Score correctness and input 2 - Articulation and ornaments 3 - Sounds & Effects 4 - Tempo 5 - Levels 6 - Dynamics & Automation 7 - Mastering 8 - Video This video is about sta...
J.S. Bach, BWV 244 Matthäus-Passion - Revisit: Aria "Ich Will Dir Mein Herze Schenken" (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach, BWV 244 Matthäus-Passion - Revisit: Aria "Ich Will Dir Mein Herze Schenken" (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I - Prelude & Fugue No. 7 in Eb, BWV 852 (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I - Prelude & Fugue No. 7 in Eb, BWV 852 (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I - Fugue No. 7 in Eb, BWV 852 (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I - Fugue No. 7 in Eb, BWV 852 (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903 - Fugue (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903 - Fugue (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book II - Fugue No. 4 in C#m, BWV 873 (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book II - Fugue No. 4 in C#m, BWV 873 (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Eb, BWV 552 "St. Anne" - Prelude (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Eb, BWV 552 "St. Anne" - Prelude (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - 5: Chorale "Wie soll ich dich empfangen" (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - 5: Chorale "Wie soll ich dich empfangen" (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - 64: Chorale "Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen" (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - 64: Chorale "Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen" (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in A Minor "The Great", BWV 543 (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in A Minor "The Great", BWV 543 (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variationen BWV 988 - Variatio 2 & 8 simul (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variationen BWV 988 - Variatio 2 & 8 simul (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Corale Prelude "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier", BWV 731
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J.S. Bach - Corale Prelude "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier", BWV 731
J.S. Bach - Mass in B minor (H) BWV 232 - Gloria in Excelsis Deo / Et In Terra Pax (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Mass in B minor (H) BWV 232 - Gloria in Excelsis Deo / Et In Terra Pax (Synthesized)
J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 - Prelude (Synthesized)
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J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 - Prelude (Synthesized)
I play this on piano. This is lovely. The way this instrumentation brings out the different voices here helps hear it in a fresh light. Brilliant. That (additional?) descant line between 1:22 and 1:35 is gorgeous.
Thank you so much for your comment! Re the (additional) line, I do not remember adding anything to this one, so I suspect it's just a line that I enhanced. It's amazing how much remains hidden until one plays with different timbres and dynamics :) Case in point: if you listen to th-cam.com/video/DVgZiOZb1ow/w-d-xo.html, from the fifteen seconds mark, you'll hear a voice that probably you've never heard. But it's always been there.
It is amazing, and interesting. I’ve had another look there - that descant line that I’m hearing is already there in the bass. It’s amazing how different they sound when they’re placed above the melody like that. Love it
Just superb, an enormous absolutely pleasureable delight, very very well done. I fully recognize & congratulate your talents
Hello! Very well done! Interested in some more Bach experiments? Then you might listen to this: th-cam.com/video/oGT5EC1hRlM/w-d-xo.html
Magnificent thanks
Glourious! Am I right and Bach created a version with other instruments (orchestra; organ?)
@@andreasisenberg8700 Yes! That would be the sinfonia of cantata BWV 29.
Bach remix is fire Just wish it came with the prelude
Ask and you'll be answered :) th-cam.com/video/tahXrTUTfIY/w-d-xo.html
After a third hearing of your realization of this piece I feel more and more that your handling of it is "right". Yes, I know that "right" is a problematic word when it comes to art. But that's just the thing. You are a musical artist and I love what you are doing. Thank you.
Thank you so much for all your love and your always accurate and insightful comments, I really appreciate it, and it makes me happy to know that there are people out there whose ear and discernment are worth the most meticulous work.
@@OrzoMondo Thank you, signore. I do think we are of like mind and heart.
You have done it again man! I have worn this masterpiece out! You always bless me with you synthesized masterpieces. God richly bless you!
Thank you!!!
Thank you for this, OrzoMondo. It works, and your time has been well invested! Violin pieces and parts often travel into the higher registers but I find that most synthesizers and/or patches are geared towards the demands of popular music, emphasizing the low and mid ranges. It can make things tricky. This was a bit shrill occasionally for my monaural deficiencies and not even reverb could soften it! Never mind. The ending was cheeky and hugely enjoyable!
Thank you! I agree on the shrill, but then the original is shrill too. This is a tiring piece, the tone and the harmonic do nothing but rise the tension all the time. So when it was time for the ending, I decided to rebalance the spectrum, and I have to say that I listened to it in the car just now, and the entrance of the bass is such a release :)
The final: really coooooooooooooooooooollll!
Yeah, I thought: why not? :)
❤
Bach and Liszt were born in the wrong eras. Too ahead of its time. This music fits perfectly as a soundtrack to any science fiction or fantasy film. I play the organ transcription very often, and it's one of my favorite pieces. this version is also beautiful..good job!
Thank you very much! This prelude is one of my favourites. Somehow, everyone knows the cello prelude, fewer know and appreciate this one.
Genius as always Sir 'Mondo
Thank you!!
Very good! 👍
Thank you!!
By far the best and most enjoyable performance of this I've ever heard. Congratulations.
Thank you! It was comparatively easy. Some piece are just like that :)
Yowza! Beautiful as always.
Thank you!!
This is classical synthesis at its finest!
Thank you!!
Marvellous, you are a Geniuos dear OrzoMondo, congratullations !!!
Thank you very much for your continued support!
Such a great example of what a synthesizer-in talented hands-can do so well. Clarity and structure. Beautiful.
Thank you so much! I'm flattered...
A triumph! And i love your "live" playing nuances so characteristic of violinists performing this piece. I also love your use of alternating colors. Thank so much, Orzo Mondo.
Thank you Dennis! This was an absolute blast to do, I've enjoyed every minute of it!
You know I listen to your work all the time. When I’m working or walking. Never stop your good work!
I am very flattered, thank you! I do this only because I am hoping someone else out there will enjoy it the same way I do. I Found one. :)
@ very glad you responded. My favorite is the kommt ihr tochter, helft mir klagen. Please make more interpretations like it.
Oh yeah, also I’d love to hear “air on g string”
@@PM20111 You're in luck: th-cam.com/video/MNVk2FoxlEc/w-d-xo.html
@ fantastic!
Love it! It's eye-opening to see how you put it together.
Thank you!!
❤
Amazing! ❤❤
Thank you!
I really, really like the patches. But at the moment it's too loud too much of the time, there needs to be a much wider dynamic range and not always detached and staccato.`It's going to be easy to put right but will take a ton of time. it will be something extra special when finished though.
You're spot on - listening to it made me notice a ton of stuff that needs updating. I think one of the reasons why it sounds so unbalanced is that I broke the piece down in sections, it's too heavy to be handled as a single file, so when I put it together really there is no continuity from var to var. And the dynamics is all over. There's lots of work ahead of me on this one.
@@OrzoMondo Interesting how you do it. Completely different from me - I start with the first bar/phrase working vertically and horizontally and work all the way to the end and all the time revising and refining what has gone previously. For me its got to sound a though its being performed live and spontaneous, no adjacent phrases on autopilot, constantly evolving.
@@grahamcaldecott Normally I flow the same pattern, but this one was simply too heavy, each variation is at least four or five tracks, and there are too many variations. After a while I had to break it down in parts. But, as you pointed out, it does not work very well.
@@OrzoMondo Yes, I can see that. I'm finding that working with two, three or even as many as 5 or sometimes even 6 patches on one track works really well but of course takes a lot of time.
I love that your posting the development of this. From variation 2 to 35, I think you've got the voicing and slowly building intensity just right (if there is such a thing). On first listening, I got the impression the 1st variation was (I don't know a musical term for) leaned a little too much toward staccato or separate sounding. Perhaps it could be a little gentler and more legato. Or, as an experiment, maybe try going uncharacteristically big with the 1st and then ramp up from the 2nd variation just as it is. I hope that makes some kind of sense.
Thank you so much for your insightful comment - I am definitely going to change few things for my second attempt.
Great job Duuuude!
You know how much work goes in these things :)
@@OrzoMondo Yep...not an easy gig...
Beginning to take shape now, OrzoMondo. The differing characters of the variations are becoming well delineated, so that a destination is certainly in sight! Being tied to a pianistic realisation of the work can be limiting (no criticism of Busoni intended). Chordal passages which are effective on the piano can risk sounding less impressive elsewhere. I'm looking forward to your further refinements! Thank you for this.
Thank you! There's definitely a lot that I'm learning, just listening to this first attempt. I think the final version will be quite different.
is there any way that I can donate to your work
Consider it virtually done, thank you! Perhaps in the future, when I feel a tad more confident :)
This is such a soulful work! It sounds really good so far, albeit more dry in some places than others at certain points. Don’t be afraid to deviate from the typical style and go for something radical, unexpected, and exciting with your arrangements! Keep up the great work, as I always look forwards to hearing more of it! ❤
I know! I need to go a little wilder, I think I am being too much conditioned by what this usually sounds like. Well, this was a good exercise to start, for v2 I can push a little the envelope. Thank you for listening!
Seeing the WIP really highlights how much effort goes into these compositions! Great job, I can’t wait to hear the final version!
Thank you so much! It is painstaking work, but I love it. When I get to the other side, I know the piece inside out.
sounds too popping, I would like to hear longer waveforms
Hi, thank you for listening! This is work in progress, only the tempo has been edited. Sounds are default 8bit sound. Stay tuned, I am working on the full piece, with proper sound, coming soon!
You were forgiven ever before you asked. You are indispensible to us, and have given more to us than we could ever give in return. Your work is outstanding regardless the pace you produce it at. Best Regards.
Thank you so much!!
You were forgiven ever before you asked. You are indispensible to us, and have given more to us than we could ever give in return. Your work is outstanding regardless the pace you produce it at. Best Regards.
Ominous superboss theme
:)
alla slow
Super Perfect your work Sir !!
Thank you!
@OrzoMondo mamma mia que nervi
Sounds awesome it really seems it is extremely tiresome if done completely manually. I reckon one can write a script to do this automatically rather easily, then it’d be just a matter of proofreading.
Thank you! Actually it is not done completely manually - I usually start from a MIDI file, but then between corrections and rewriting there is a lot of mine that goes into it. In this case, for example, dividing the score in five staves/voices was done manually. No script would have been able to decide what went in each voice. There is also a lot of listening :)
The physical representation really adds to the cosmic wonder of Bach's music
Agree!
The best Bach piece... It sounds great!
Thank you! I am slowly working through its completion...
Well done! I didn't realise it before but seeing it here I can see how painstaking this process of breaking down the piece into individual parts and in re-notating it would be, including the way you have to notate some ornaments 'manually' and how you roll the LH 10ths. And all this, let alone the work that goes into mixing and synth voicing. Oh, and I almost forgot - the graphics! Great job so far.
Thank you! Re the rolling 10ths, I didn't *need* to roll them, you can play chords of any size with synthesizers, and in fact I started with block chords. But then it sounded unnatural - we are so used to hear some of these far away chords on the left hand rolling away, that playing them straight sounded like forcing it. Also, I do all the ornaments in detail, including arpeggios, as you noticed - some software allows you to specify only a trill or a mordent, and it will unroll them into actual notes, but boy, do they sound ugly :) So I do my own, with large use of groups of 5, 6 or 7. It's actually quite fun, albeit time consuming. Thank you for listening and commenting!
Sounds pretty good so far! ❤
Thank you!
Marvellous
It's getting there...
The first time I listened to this piece, my heart almost stoped. Listening to this version, my heart is just in fire. Please, don't stop making this synthesized versions of erudit musics. I, for now, just can say thanks and subscribe your chanel. I hope one day I would help with more.
Thank you so very much! Your appreciation is enough!
Morytania runescape music kind of vibe
I don't understand why so little Bach is in games TBH :)
🎶🎵🎶🎹👨💻💾🖨 beautiful
Thank you!
I love it
Thank you!
I can listen to this piece a million times and never tire of it
I agree!
_Geweldig!_
Thank you!
Can you do the fugue as well soon plz
You're right, I should - I am very busy with the Ciaccona 1004 at the moment, but I'll get back to this whenever possible.