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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have not done it to one of my pieces, but a vocalist I was working with reworked a song we were working on together for acoustic guitar so she could play it at home.  Honestly….her version sounded better.   We never finished the full project, and I can’t find any recordings we made of it (probably lost in the great hard disk crash of 2003).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tony <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 8, 2020, at 6:04 AM, Niall Munnelly <<a href="mailto:niall.munnelly@gmail.com" class="">niall.munnelly@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><a href="https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.app.goo.gl%2FU2zD8hX6xBhapCyr7&data=04%7C01%7C%7C7dcb2996b15a4d85a0dd08d89b7174a8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637430258891691093%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=7ncBMM15LdJ9qTyXo6UVOCf4MIi1e3JMeU%2FtV3aMiiI%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/U2zD8hX6xBhapCyr7" shash="r2KLcFrjnWqfXF9bdJCMM6Bu1SUgDPb/2wz1ZcZeCZZojNyP8/Q3lGt1i4+poqmtozdPfGeZ3lNBXAFhjEhbwiqWSWVfZyJQVh6+k/MNI4qJnKtwYCKzLo8oamzOmOEhJUexkTE+AxPED5rcbTVP+wZIPr7pmn3ijwwFOpruSNo=" class="">https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/U2zD8hX6xBhapCyr7</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1">I got to thinking that it could be fun and edifying to arrange this electronic piece for chorus and acoustic instrument ensemble. Of course, I have no experience with composition, notation, or anything like that. :)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1">I figure I’ll take a first pass by simply micing and multitracking myself - I’m not as interested in the actual ensemble as I am the re-interpretation of the electronic piece.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1">Have any of you done this before? Basically re-arranged one of your electronic track for acoustic instrumentation (or even virtually so, with samples, etc)? Very Alarm Will Sound, I know. It seems like a cool way to kickstart creative ideas as long as you’re not dedicated to a single mode of production, ie synths, samplers, whatever.</span></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Yours,</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Niall.</span></div>
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