ArtfulSpider
Ron Roos, also known as ArtfulSpider, web-developer by day, music composer by night. See www.midi-contest.com for more info.
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Ode to Joy Ode to Joy
A neoclassical approach to an old favorite, Beethoven's 9th Symphony - 4th movement, better known as "Ode to Joy"... this arrangement features some mean arpeggios on classical guitar, and is just popping with energy.
Bach - Tocatta & Fugue in Dm Bach - Tocatta & Fugue in Dm
Bach - Tocatta & Fugue in Dm - Sequenced in MIDI using Cakewalk Sonar, RealFont sound font, mixed down to mp3
Teonanacatl 2003 Teonanacatl 2003
Teonanácatl hongo de San Isidro - the most widely-distributed of the sacred mushrooms. Psilocybe subcubensis var. amazonica.
Fiddlin' Z's Fiddlin' Z's
Classical minor key piece for piano and violin, featuring some powerful solo's on the fiddle. Sequenced in Cakewalk Sonar, using Merlin Vienna sound font, then mixed down to mp3 format.
Felix Mendlsohn's Electric Guitar Concerto Felix Mendlsohn's Electric Guitar Concerto
A neoclassical interpretation of a familiar excerpt from Felix Mendlsohn's Violin Concerto...
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ArtfulSpider's music is created in MIDI format, using Cakewalk Sonar, through a Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum sound card. Primary input device is either a Roland HS-10 synth, or my little Reveal Music Star midi keyboard... All other edits are done with the mouse, in Sonar.Band/artist history
I was Trained in classical piano at an early age, but forcibly, so I hated it. Wasnt until about age 17 that I rediscovered the piano on my own (Grandmas baby grand) and rekindled my love for music, and opened the creative doors within myself. Bought a Roland linear synth shortly thereafter, and went nuts. Played keyboard for a Rock band, and recorded abstract stuff with another keyboardist, using an early MOOG synth, and an old ARP Oddysey. I do most of my sequencing with Cakewalk Sonar. I use a SB Live sound card, and a custom built surround sound system. Im a web developer by trade (www.artfulspider.com), Favorite music includes anything by J.S. Bach, Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd, The Mighty Flyers, Yes, Kansas, ELP, Pat Methany, Lyle Mays, Thelonius Monk, Al Dimeola, and Beethoven.Have you performed in front of an audience?I live in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California, at about 6500 ft above sea level.
Your musical influences
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Paganini, Pink Floyd, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Al Dimiola, Lyle Mays, Pat Methany, among many, many others, including the composers at MIDI-CONTEST.COM, who provide my primary inspiration, and source of learning.What equipment do you use?
I compose most of my work in Cakewalk Sonar. My input devices are either my Roland Synth Plus 10 linear synthesizer (same guts as the Alpha Juno II) or my little Revel midi keyboard... and of course, my mouse. I run my midi in through my Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum sound card, using MerlinGM5.1 sound font, created by Lavio Pareschi, of PixelArts. Midi files are then converted to mp3 using either Cool Edit 2000, or Creative's Media player/recorder at 128kbps... mixed by ear.Anything else?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
Twin Peaks, CA
USA
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104603
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wow, what a load of interesting stuff to mull through. one of my favorites is mighty funk of jagermeister. also dug the jazz sequence (although i heard trumpet, not sax on that one), venice beach, 212. after all this, i can hear the old artfulspider shouting "i got blisters on my fingers!" ala john lennon!
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