[filk] Re: Something strange just occured to me

From: Michael Hopcroft

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Filksinger" <filksinger at earthling.net>
> To: <filk at dragoncat.net>
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:43 AM
> Subject: [filk] Re: Something strange just occured to me
>
>
> > You might try what Tom Smith did for Tom Smith: Plugged, and create MIDI
> > music. Then you could have almost any instrument, or even a
> band, backing
> > you. Probably can't get a good guitar, though.
> reply
> Thanks for the thought. I'd probably need help for that, too, and
> equipment:
> a MIDI setup, keyboards I can;t play. That sort of thing. I am, at the
> moment, completely hopeless with anything that looks like a musical
> isntrument, although I can sing.

Actually, you can make MIDI music, in full, without the keyboard at all, or anything other than a computer and the right software. You tell it what notes you want, and what instrument plays them, and when you are done, you have a song.

reply> I've actually been told by a friend, though, that I should never sing in
> public again.

How dare he! (or she!) For that, the 10th Circle of Hell! (Banned from Argo, continuous loop, but each loop sung by a new group of filkers, all mangling it.)

Filksinger
AKA David Nasset, Sr.
Geek Prophet to the Technologically Declined Received on 12/10/01