With this set of videos, reader Omri Cohen shares his synthesized arrangements of 3 Gymnopédies, by Erik Satie.
“I programmed everything in VCV Rack, there was no MIDI involved,” notes Cohen.
VCV Rack is a free, open source software modular synthesizer platform that is available for Linux, Mac & Windows.
this was great
Very nice!
New life for a familiar piece
Very nice
Hmm, I can’t agree that this is great (or even ‘nice’) at all. Given the power of synthesis available here from VCV, there really isn’t much of a variation going on, and I’d say the piano version to my ears is far superior just because the dynamics from a piano are far better suited to the simplicity of Satie’s original pieces. It’s actually quite boring being what sounds not much more than a square-wave and some reverb. Will the real Tomita please step forward?!
in the endless flood of “electronic music” which is mostly made up from 1 to 4 chords on endless repeat and filters&arps&automation, this was a well made and refreshing take on those classics.