Word: midi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first formal training was classical piano. I was also in a progressive hardcore band with Shawn and Jon called This is My Rifle. And I've been experimenting with electronic music--sequencing, MIDI, a K-2000 sampler...
...Harvard University Band's Web site has vastly improved in recent months. With songs now played out in full and recorded in MPEG format, the site has gone from samples in MIDI format to clear sounding Harvard songs--a must for any student with an MPEG player. Additionally, the site clearly marks out the different band links...
...feel it particularly in Cezanne's series of landscapes of his "sacred mountain," Mont Sainte-Victoire. Now it is a mere shimmer of profile in a watercolor, whose blank paper becomes the white light of the Midi, burning through the pale flecks of color. Elsewhere, in the late oils, it achieves a tremendous faceted density, that crouched lion of rock. In between there are lyrical tributes to it, as in Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign...
...band returned for "Space," and after some fiddling with various MIDI sounds, the music resumed with a tight and rocking "All Along the Watchtower." The "Standing on the Moon" that followed turned out to be the highlight of the show. Like "So Many Roads," "Standing" ended with Garcia repeating the chorus ("I'd rather be here with you" in this case) into a thrilling crescendo that brought the whole band to a boil and the crowd to a roar...
...have to be a dance scholar to get most of the jokes. There are lightning tours of the classics: the distinctive, flattened arm gestures in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faun, several quotes from Swan Lake, including the Prince's defiance as his mother points imperiously at her wedding ring -- "No, I will not marry any of these boring girls" -- and so on up to Paul Taylor's Airs. As White Oak continues to tour (Washington; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, are among the upcoming cities), Misha will vary the jokes on whim...