The first recording of my tabla music is online in MP3 music. You can listen to it by clicking here. (If you have trouble streaming it, save it to your hard disk and play it from there.)
For those of you who know music: The recording consists of tabla improvizations against a steady 2/3 polyrhythm on an "udu" clay drum. Both parts were played by me, and the recording was arranged by me. Two minutes with two channels was hard - I'd be scared to do a whole CD with ten channels!
I know that for a little while, the tabla gets into a slightly different rhythm (more like a 5 than a 2/3), but I decided not to redo it because it's hard and at least I was in tempo.
That was fantastic! It was odd how I instantly starting singing along while I was listening. The words just seemed to fit with the music and the graphics.
(me singing) I can see clearly now the rain has gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me down. It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiney day!
Thank you David for the sunshine! PJ
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance---e e cummings
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A bunch of freaky numbers and boxes and stuff showed up.... What do I do?!
-A friend
We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
I got it working! Lots of banging. I like banging ..... Good job! Keep it up!
-A friend
We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
Not much banging, actually. The tabla is played with the fingers. I can only strike the instrument with as much force as one can develop, say, lifting up the index finger from a surface and bringing it down again as hard as I can.
PJ
....but I enjoyed it very much - congratulations!!
