After the last IISAC Phil Hart generated a lot of interest in time lapses and there was some discussion about where to get non-copyright music to put with the video clips. I wondered how successful making you own music with software such as Fruityloops might be. The appeal of making your own music, apart from the satisfaction of DIY
, would be you could add effects to coincide with events in the clip like satellite passes (just like any B sgrade sci-fi film
).
Fruityloops has a wide range of instruments and some sound effects built into it. I'm using a pretty old version that I've had for years, but over the weekend I had a play with a piece of music that I wrote for guitar many years ago - a finger picked progression of basically add2 chords which always struck me as having a spacey or dream-like feel about it. We used it as backing to jamm and improvise. It's called "Nothing" and the original goes for 3:16, but as that's a long time for a time lapse, I also made "Half Nothing" by cutting out the second "verse"
so Half Nothing goes for 2;00 exactly.
Feel free to have a listen, if you like it and want to use it in a time lapse or video clip, as an IIS member feel free - just acknowledge credit for the music to me please
.
Both
Nothing and
Half Nothing are in the following zip file:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/AlsMusic.zip
I have also just recently discovered Musescore for music composition, so for those guitarists out there who might like to try it I've attached the score.
Enjoy.
Al.