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some well known classical tunes, i guess this is the most legal way to share it, instead to present the music in a mod for pioneer we can link some YT clips.personally i like to listen more and more to classical music (stupid term, better would be orchestral music) in pioneer. also this will be in the spirit of our project starter i know, who stated once "i prefere to listen to classical music" (someone elses choice might be different) when we was asking years ago for music in Pioneer (i haven't forgot any of your statements dear friend).to me really it suits the game best and i see no problem to share wagner or strauss in this way. if you might like it i neither know, but i like it.i grew up with it, apart from jazz and folk music. i know i linked some classical - no, some orchestral music already and probably will repeat one or the other. let's start with two well known exponents which simply belong to a space game like i stated in our conversation this is my one and only opening tune, it simply can't be replaced and since "2001" everybody will feel "space" when one listens to it. really worth to listen to the complete concert. the second well known and which has been always used to represent a "naval" or "battle" impression, aware that everybody knows these tunes, nonetheless) now something which is also well know from countless movie soundtracks, but it even suits well to pioneer imo, a fine recording of the tune, i feel.the whole composition is worth to listen to, but 45min's are a little to long and there are other works which you can't split to sets.this is very "loud" or in other terms dynamic, but i suggest also the "lento" of the same composition. besides while i was looking for "sheherazade" i stumbled over a similar named but less known but very fitting composition of maurice ravel now something very simple but never ment to be played, but it fits very well to the docking scenes, might will have to split them to the single exponents, they sound simply great to me, like anything this "dude" coposed.many compositions of him are hard to listen to but these canons are very basic and simple in harmony. only 8 basic notes, that's the marvellous thing about them and it shows very well the way how he composed music,how music and mathematics was one thing to him. harmony as a mathematical expression, it was clearly in the spirit of his time to search for the "holy grale" in the harmony of creation.just like you would find god in it, if not god but certainly you find the key to all what represents our universe in it. that's why i like bach so much and i already liked his music when he wasn't as "popular" as he is now, one could say already in the belly of my mother,my father prefered to listen to bach, well it (has) suits his character and you should have see in what different world he was transferred when he listened to it, like he would have taken a ecstasy of some sort. i linked in our conversation a canon of different training pieces of him, but couldn't find them on YT, they are even more basic.the one i like most is a canon over four notes reading the notes from fore to back and back to fore together, he did such often and even in the above example some are "in motu recto et contrario" i would have more music which i like personally for pioneer, but i guess i stop here and let something different followerm, i was looking for a different tune of them but this one is as good as, arts you see in the clip remind me much of what "Barbara Streiff" did and for what she has been laughed at home and became (a little) fame in NY. --- edit:i have to link this one, it pops up after listening to the "canons over the first 8 notes from the goldberg variations aria"i have to post it because it shows how one can destroy the music and make a horrible kitsch out of it and well it's as kitsch as the picture to the music.this is mean it really kills the spirit of it.though take it as a example how it shouldn't be done and why i dislike this sort of "arts" if it suits to the term arts at all.one could say and i usually say to "matter of choice", but exactly at this point "matter of choice" ends. 

in red  

A good movie, was Zabriskie Point - great soundtrack!

Zabriskie Point was one of the must views in my hideout. this guy can (could wrote) write fine songs... --- something more glossy, i listened to a lot of pink floyd in the past weeks, i miss(ed) two records, "More" and "Obscured By Clouds" in my collection.checked some fine rock 'n roll of ccr,and finally met the "starship trooper".   

Frequently played in my house, is Obscured by Clouds - a great album, and the soundtrack from La Vallée, which was an excellent movie.The track Childhood's End was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's fifties sci-fi novel of the same name - a highly recommended read.

Currently playing in Chez Cody - an old Donovan song, given the Airplane treatment. 

...it follows me everywhere i go. --- something for a typical saturday night    --- after the show, 

a jazzy sunday ev'ybody   

AoxoToxoA is still alive and playing  visit their website here:http://www.aoxotoxoa.com/[/url] and have some fun fumbling around with one of my pictures you can use it also as a linking page to other grateful-dead cover bands i will link SSC in the guestbook as well, though the boys can see what i'm up to when i don't jump around like a cat on a hot plate. last weekend was the unique "HAS club festival", which means 4 days of music and funand nothing but music and fun (overall 40! bands was playing). if yours ever are occasionally in october in switzerland and if you like LOUD rock-music i can only recommend to visit this happening. excerpts of it i can't present you, the HAS club is extremly tiny, 150 ppl and a camera won't work though the camera has to stay outside. "we are prob. not the best in what we do,but we are the only ones who do it". [url][/url]

I've been away and now I am back! :girlcrazy: And I see more posts in this most venerable music thread, ok time for something decidedly 60s "ish".  

I've been away and now I am back! <grins> Welcome back, space girl! 

no music, but a timeless piece of art (it's spoken german, but it won't matter for the sense of it) lion:"if i wouldn't be so blonde..."animals:"...we know, you would turn black because of anger" enjoy it @geraldinedisturbingly good psychedelic-electronic-rock, if i see a evolution in music i guess yes it will lead in such a direction.it's build well, leaks of a singer or do they have tracks with lyrics as well? "we" found out (at the party) music means so much more with a human voice,i talked with some of the musicians (which is no wonder 40 bands 150 ppl, not many non musicians, ok some of the musicians play in more as one band) about that topic and that i like minimal and house to, one said that he's a DJ in a club, but to play rock music means much more to him.i was also surprised to see young ppl dancing to beatles (in a pause) i had to ask them if they like the beatles and they answered with a "certainly". @codycool cartoon, like the jazzy track, maybe it's not as inventive as the one geraldine posted, but it's cool easy listening stuff.charming voice.the music is pleasing the ear, very professional though. --- "toxo" is very differenti liked the light show one of the members made, handcrafted as well.two ppl can sit together in a small wooden housing, each has two pedals to control two mirrored flaps which cover/uncover the colored lights,in back of the tiny stage are mirrors mounted to reflect the "lightshow", the mirrors you can control with a handle to flip them from left to right or let them jump up and down.it's absolutely contrary to computers and electronics, but i like it much.i like this idea of working together and it's simplicity, anyone can control such a lightshow, just get in the groove and there you go. it's the idea of starting it all over again i like so much. probably in time i can post a picture or a short clip of that.

@codycool cartoon, like the jazzy track, maybe it's not as inventive as the one geraldine posted, but it's cool easy listening stuff.charming voice. the music is pleasing the ear, very professional though. Eliza Carthy is a very talented lady - here she is live: 

Very nice indeed Commander Cody. :queen: Now, a bit of coolness from Mr Hendrix.... 

RIP Jack Bruce - a great bassist and songwriter! 

:girlsad: I just heard the news! Another music legend gone to join all the others. May he rest in peace. 

This one is dedicated to Walterar!  Great to see you back Walterar! :girlcrazy:

and this is dedicated to all the amiga users here  yeah nice to hear from you, i knowchristmas 'n all that tard, you know... also a system breakdown (again, but again my own fault, tried to experiment a bit) further i'm hangin out with my old love Intellivisionbought me a "brand new" Inty (looks like brand new, like it would have been never used, little expensive but the condition is fantastic)i'm impatiantly awaiting the mail something space related,Intellivision (now intelligentvision) has a couple of unreleased or unfinished games from the 80'sone is named "Space Shuttle"and it's a fantastic game for '83that's really a good game and i would have freaked out as a boy about it,you have to fly a mission with the shuttle and pick up satellites, not easy, you have to get close and load the satellite with a crane in the bay.it supports Intellivoice and unlike other games it's used in a senseful way, "mission control" gives you actual advices for the mission. "danger - space debris" i love it! the controls in orbit are cool, you don't control the curse with the ship, means you can rotate but you stay on course,to change the course you have to change the orbit, that's really clever made for a game from this time.As soon as you're in range of a satellite you can switch to "manual" flight mode to get close to the satellite.the crane i still can't control well, but i managed it once to load one (yeah). No question this would have been another first in his genre, a shuttle simulator.Unfortunately it's unfinished (while it's not to clear to me what is unfinished at this game, you can start, load the satellite, repair, unload, land and finish the mission).It was never published in it's time, but it's downloadable now, i hope they will give it a try to finish it, because a few unfinished they already finished,since there is some interest in the inty, which fascinates me, young fellows start to program in BASIC and we old incl. devs are totally surprised by this. Another worth to try but homebrew game is iStar, which is as far as i know a clone of Astar (atari) or Dstar (z80).it's a cute type of maze game and not easy, i guess it's this what fascinates the young about these simple games, they aren't easy to play, it's challanging. Didn't knew that they made some "rude" games, "Space c*nt" yes you readed right, it's in general a Astrosmash, nothing else and uses the voice only to spell the title."developers choice"  overall i was doing a time warp, have a look at this cool tennis game: it's from 1958 but this game has even a predecessor,the "Cathode ray tube amusement device" from 1947,didn't found a clip of it so far, but it seems to be a sort of "missile command" game.both was never released to the public, obviously, them are monster machines. yeah i know you thought of "Magnavox" or the "Brown Box"?truely yes, when i saw "Magnavox" it refreshed my rinse of a memory and i immediatly remembered "daddy made a lightgun game for me"but the "Brown Box" is worth to take a look at.A sort of "Ping-Pong" very similar to "Magnavox"s "Table Tennis" (or with whatever layer you covered the screen,funny one and the same game just different layers and make from "Tabble Tennis" a "Hockey"), even the controls for the "Brown Box" equal to "Magnavox". Further yes, i was hanging out with "SimCopter" and "Streets of SimCity", for which i found a cool solution to run them flawless on my 64bit win7.Especially "Streets" and i guess until i published my clips how to manage this, no one found a proper solution to get rid of the steady hopping cars, but "DXWnd" does the job.Even i was suspecting either memory or frequency will be the reason, but it's in general only that DX6 and 7 since long isn't anymore supported.Many old games can be played again with this little helper proggy and it surprises me that it's relatively unknown.Intentionally it's to run fullscreen DX apps in a window (i guess that's why most didn't guess it will hep to run old softs)but apart from the really good working windowed modes and a free scalable window for whatever game you wish, it helps to run old DX game releases.A very well made made piece of software. found that one on a simcopter release, it's a demo made with simtunes, but it's by far the best one of them, the other demos are good as well, but i like that funky tune. and one for "the psychedelic freak" whatever that is: und dann noch etwas krautrock von "das raumpiloten"

ok this time silence (no don't play "silence", that's no good idea) here comes the little green man he will blow you down "Space Wars"? i hope i get this right, quote:"Space Wars (and further all computergames) is a great chance for worldpeace" It was (unlike the above demo or it's predecessor) a work of Hackers, which abused a industrial technology to their own benefit,to the benifit of humans.It was the first time man didn't served the machine, vice versa the machine served man just for entertainment.It's goal wasn't productivity nor financial gain. I would like to broadcast above quote worldwide,best i would like to exchange with this for let's say 24h the stock exchange news, worldwide on every newschannel,which never stop even not when 1000s of ppl die caused by a catastrophe or by human blindness. http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html[/url] got it?