It did, however, bring me in contact with the wonderful Jean-Luc Plouvier who offered his help, but more on this later.
Did I mention that the publisher didn't even bother to even answer my mail? No? Well, I guess you figured.
For some reason, nobody who did the work before kept the files for other people. I posted my question on Facebook and got tons of advice, albeit not what I wanted. Since the pieces are being played sometimes I thought somebody must have the patches in digital format. The first thing was asking around if somebody had the original SysEx-Files for the piece. I also knew of Hexter, which was used by the Integra project at Birmingham Conservatoire to make a new version of Madonna of Winter and Spring by Jonathan Harvey, but I hadn't checked that out yet.Įverything looked fine and dandy and this was my ToDo-List in October 2014:Ģ) make a few tests on which instrument the patches sound best All in all, I didn't want to buy two old synthesizers but port everything on a newer instrument. I didn't have a DX7 and although it's not really difficult to find a cheap one on the second hand market they are heavy, old (aka "might die in concert") and don't really have a stellar audio output (quite a lot of noise and only 12 bit resolution, which in this case was not really what I wanted). (The other partners in crime for that concert were Elisa Medinilla (piano) and Maarten Quanten (De Bijloke)). So much so that I programmed Vision de la cité interdite for a 5-hour concert at Ghent's De Bijloke in February 2015 with Frederik Croene as my duo partner. 1 The scores are available at Editions Henry Lemoine, the piece has been played a few times already, I have a few instruments to play around with, so everything seems to be a doodle. Yamaha DX7 synthesizers are still around and so are quite a few emulations that can read the original patch files. They are originally part of the longer Random Access Memory cycle for two electric guitars, two electric drums and two synthesizers that have been re-written by Tristan Murail so they can be performed as synthesizer duos. Atlantysand Vision de la cité interditeby Tristan Murail are two pieces for two Yamaha DX7 synthesizers.
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