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Gymnop​é​dies

from Old's Cool by Jim Hanks

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This is a re-imagining of French composer Erik Satie's Gymnopédies. Originally composed as three separate pieces, they have been combined here into a single arrangement. While I have stayed true to Satie's melody and harmonies, I have completely ignored the usual performance notes: "lent de douloureux", "lent de triste", and "lent et grave". I don't know much about the French I took, but one Internet translation web site describes them as "slow painful", "of the sad slow", and "slow and serious". Hopefully, listening to this rendition will not be a painful, sad, or serious exercise. :-)

From a technical side of things, I've delved farther into electronica than usual. The drums and percussion are mostly "modeled" elements from the Kong drum designer in Propellerhead Reason. The bass is a synth bass programmed from the Subtractor synth. The rest of the backing instruments are all from Sonic Reality refills for Reason. There are 5 EWI leads. In order of appearance, they are, "Michael Lead" from Patchman's internal soundbank, "Glassy" from the Cyclone Refill (ewireasonsounds.com), "Bass Clarinet" from Patchman, "EWI Electric Flute" from Bernie Kenerson's EWI Thor Refill, and finally "EWI Arp2600 Lead" from Bernie's "EWI 80 Combinators Refill". As I said above, I kept the original melody notes and chord progression (except for key changes and the last 4 measures of #2 - what was Satie thinking there?), but completely changed the feel and rhythm. Also I added my own modal outro just so I would have *something* to add to the party.

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from Old's Cool, released September 5, 2011
Sound design: Matt Traum, Bernie Kenerson, Chris Vollstadt
Track image: Christian Carollo, www.sxc.hu/photo/459779

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I like many styles of music but most of my own productions tend towards jazz with electronic elements. I play the Akai EWI4000s electric wind instrument, ukuleles, guileles, NAF, whistle, recorders, harmonicas, and various software instruments on Windows and iOS. ... more

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