Neualtenburg Musicians

Do we have any local Neualtenburg musicians?

I'm involved in various projects that are always looking for resident music and I'm wondering if we have any neualtenburgers to showcase?

What sort of things are you looking for. I alwasy thought the city needed a suitably pompous pseudo-19th century march (As an aside, I got an MM in Composition a long,long time ago)

I'm interested in any type of musicians. Like I said I'm starting to get more involved in media projects that require music. There is a rumor that Neualt will pop up in one of them, and I thought that one should definately have Neualtenburg resi music... but shhhh... you didn't hear that rumor from me.

Just as a side note, I wish I still had time to do my amateurish compositions... incredibly enough, a few months before I found SL, I had just 'discovered' a wonderful piece of composition software — Melody/Harmony Assistant, which is shareware for an incredibly low price (US $20) for the amount of features it packs in (... including things like synthetic voices with specific accents for choirs, an OCR reader for written music, and free browser plug-ins for embedding their native file format inside web pages :) ).

In 2004, I've demo'ed almost all professional composition software that was available through the Web at the time, from Sibelius to the more obscure ones, all of them demanding hundreds of dollars for a license which an utter amateur is truly not interested in spending. In my spare time I was starting to compose a Latin Mass using a post-modern pseudo-baroque style, which was fun to do using Melody Assistant — I hadn't done anything so complex with the limited tools I had before, and my keyboard skills have been fading to nothingness for the past few years without training :) So, computers to the rescue, and low-cost shareware — available for Windows and the Mac :) I even managed to teach Moon Adamant the rudiments of composing using that tool (she never had read music before in her life...) ;) Yes, it's that good and easy to use!

Alas, Second Life utterly destroyed my last attempts at composition... hehe... I suppose I have to wait until LL files for bankrupcy and SL disappears from the face of the earth to get back to my other hobbies :)

I'm just mentioning these guys (because, as you might imagine, I was a fanatic promoter and enthusiast of Melody/Harmony Assistant and the company, Myriad, as I'm today of SL and LL :) ) because they had a very, very interesting concept to promote their product further: a bi-anual composition competition. In my moments of lunacy, I got in touch with them once to ask if they were willing to sponsor an additional, "themed" competition — at that time I was organising a science fiction convention, had a small orchestra available, and I thought it would be nice to have people compose a "theme" for the convention (instead of the usual logo/poster contests) which would be played by a real orchestra :) To my surprise, the guys at Myriad liked the idea, they only wanted me to provide a jury panel that could verify the "orginality" of the submissions (that's apparently the biggest problem with these kinds of competitions).

I'm just mentioning this, Satchmo, because you feature LL's link to their scholarship on your signature, and are searching for musicians :) If you're trying to set up some sort of composition/performing competition and would like a partner, get in touch with the Myriad guys, they are really something special. Also, I definitely encourage any composer, amateur or pro, to take a look at their software. As the shareware it is, you can download a fully-functional demo, subject to just a few restrictions (but it'll work without time limits).

Enough spamming from me for today :)

Ahh... I wish I was being that smooth. I'm looking for music for machinima I'm thinking about starting a group called the Machinima Music Network, where participating musicians would grant a free license to anyone doing machinima.

If Neualt shows up in a machinima, or perhaps one about it (hint hint) it would be nice to have a Neualt musican.

Hmm, just for the record... how long should the music be, what style of music are you searching for, and should it be "sync'ed" to the machinima (ie. like real movie soundtracks set "the mood" on a movie, following the action second by second)?

I think that what I'm asking is if you're looking for a Danny Elfman or John Williams-type of soundtrack to accompany a machinima...