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A short piece derived from a library with imported fragments of Debussy's Clair De Lune. It was quick and easy drag & drop with a few tweaks here and there (mostly deleting, transposing).
Harmony is from "Portray Of Jenny". Interestingly the main theme sounds almost identical to the original, albeit there are many subtle differences.
The phrases are stiched together with drag & drop:
In the second part only the upper "track" is replaced by this (also drag & drop, plus a modest Transpose and Dynamics parameter curve):
The files are attached below.
debussy-ressuscite.mp3
Tue, 2023-11-28 - 16:17 Permalink
Although the main theme is a blatant quote, the other parts are much less obviously derived from the famous composer. The thing with imported phrases is that they get you past the "blank page" standstill very quickly. You suddenly have something to work with, something that points to a direction. Many ideas start with only a single phrase, generated or imported, and evolve from there on.
Tue, 2023-11-28 - 21:39 Permalink
When I use imported phrases, I try to make sure that not even the slightest connection can be made to the original piece. So that not even the original composer would recognize his own phrases. Otherwise it sounds more like a... well, for example, a destroyed Debussy.
Tue, 2023-11-28 - 21:56 Permalink
Yes. Twenty minutes of drag & drop can't accomplish much that would stand scrutiny, no matter where the phrases were taken from. Even more so when the dragger and dropper isn't a piano player.
I played the original Clair de Lune to a friend (on my computer, so he probably thought it was something composed only recently) and he complained there was "too much going on at the same time" and the beat wasn't clear enough. Music is not for everyone ;-)