"Charles Angelich" wrote to "All" (15 Dec 02  14:26:00)
 --- on the topic of "Too Good?"

 CA> My recent arrangements of MP3/WMA traditonal Christmas MIDI
 CA> music is my most recent speed bump.

 CA> I do not write music, I arrange existing well known music in
 CA> the way(s) I think it should be performed. On CD-DA when played
 CA> on a stereo system I get 'looks' that tell me they don't
 CA> believe the music is my own arrangement.

What we're talking about here is the role of the musical conductor or in
recording terms, the producer. For example if the early Beatles hadn't
met Sir George Martin there is a possibility they would have been just
another forgotten group. What Sir Martin did was just as creative and
influential as anything the Lennon/McCartney team came up with. Another
example is the Michael Jackson album Thriller which was produced by
Quincy Jones. Had someone else been in charge it's not sure the album
would have been as good.

Like you I enjoy creating and producing my own MIDI files. For example
I'll take a song and tinker with the instrument arrangements until they
sound pleasing to me. Sometimes if you were to compare the before and
after results, the original sounds like the "unplugged" version and my
version raises the hair on the back of your neck. It's scary to have
that much power! Hehehe!

 Mike
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