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[Unnoskol]

I guess the difference in sound is inevitable, since different instruments are used. It's like the classical piece Asturias by Isaac Albeniz. Originally written for piano, it was transcribed for guitar by Francisco Tarrega and became more famous in that form.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8l4KijBA0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jQ3o718ls&feature=related

Sorry for going off-topic. I'm just making a comparison.

[Occoris]

I've got to head for a college interview very soon so I'll respond to the new posts later. Until then, here's another contribution I made to Gemclod that may or may not be of interest to this forum.

In building_custom.txt

[BUILDING_WORKSHOP:PIANO]
   [NAME:Piano]
   [NAME_COLOR:7:0:1]
   [WORK_LOCATION:3:2]
   [BUILD_LABOR:CARPENTER]
   [BUILD_KEY:CUSTOM_SHIFT_P]
   [BLOCK:1:1:1:0]
   [BLOCK:2:1:1:0]
   [BLOCK:3:1:1:0]
   [DIM:3:3]
   [TILE:0:1:7:7:32]
   [TILE:0:2:0:0:32]
   [TILE:0:3:7:7:32]
   [COLOR:0:1:6:0:0:6:0:0:0:0:0]
   [COLOR:0:2:6:0:0:6:0:0:0:0:0]
   [COLOR:0:3:6:0:0:6:0:0:0:0:0]
   [TILE:1:1:201:7:32]
   [TILE:1:2:186:32:32]
   [TILE:1:3:200:7:32]
   [COLOR:1:1:6:0:0:6:0:0:0:0:0]
   [COLOR:1:2:6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]
   [COLOR:1:3:6:0:0:6:0:0:0:0:0]
   [TILE:2:1:79:0:32]
   [TILE:2:2:186:0:32]
   [TILE:2:3:79:0:32]
   [COLOR:2:1:6:0:0:0:7:0:0:0:0]
   [COLOR:2:2:6:0:0:0:7:0:0:0:0]
   [COLOR:2:3:6:0:0:0:7:0:0:0:0]
   [TILE:3:1:177:240:32]
   [TILE:3:2:177:240:9]
   [TILE:3:3:177:240:32]
   [COLOR:3:1:6:0:0:0:7:0:0:0:0]
   [COLOR:3:2:6:0:0:0:7:0:6:0:0]
   [COLOR:3:3:6:0:0:0:7:0:0:0:0]
   [BUILD_ITEM:5:LOGS:NONE:WOOD:NONE][BUILDMAT][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]

In entity_default.txt

[PERMITTED_BUILDING:PIANO]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:PLAY_PIANO]

In reaction_other.txt

[REACTION:PLAY_PIANO]
   [NAME:play piano]
   [BUILDING:PIANO:CUSTOM_P]
   [SKILL:COORDINATION]

[ahonek]

Extremely cool. Is it possible to make the "Play Piano" reaction cause happy thoughts in nearby dwarves? If so, that would be amazing.

Urist McDepressed has been content lately. He heard the sultry tones of a legendary pianist recently.

[Occoris]

The audio file is produced by a computer program, correct?

If any of you records a real life version of this arrangement played on a real piano, I would love to hear it, and it should definitely be posted on the forum.

Not that the existing files are not good - quite the contrary! But they (as computer generated instruments usually are) are lacking a bit in dynamics and expressiveness. A performance of this piece by a competent pianist would be a fantastic thing indeed.

Yep, I'm unable to play the piece on my dinky little keyboard (and I don't have any recording equipment anyway). I'm pleased that so many people are interested in playing the piece on real pianos.

So I was listening to all the midi tracks, and suddenly one comes up that was so full of win I instantly had to maximise my music player to know it's name.

'Tree killer', for the name, is mesmeric.

Ha, I'm glad you approve. You can listen to the proper mp3 version here: http://tindeck.com/listen/vlwr
There's also a sung version by one of the Something Awful regulars here: http://tindeck.com/listen/sgfw

All my uploads can be accessed here: http://tindeck.com/users/Gemclod and Gemclod-related uploads from other contributors can be accessed by clicking the 'Favourites' tab on that page.

you should do the title song in this manner

Maybe.

[Gatleos]

I don't know anything about remixing and I'm too poor to buy any of the software.

So what did you compose this with?

[Occoris]

The audio files are generated from the software I used to notate the music, so it's a completely original exercise. Remixing (as far as I'm defining it here) involves editing actual audio files for the most part which is something I only have grasped the basics of.

[Immacolata]

I started taking piano lessons last year and Im now up to playing the easier Chopin preludes. If I can handle that, I think Ill have a go at this piece, at least parts of it, and see how far I go. I thank you for doing this

What works or not works btw - you can probably get around some of the more "hard spots" with some interpretation or by replacing some of the more "eloquent" finger picking passages with some solid chords, maybe.

Gee, now I know what to do when I get enough for the day of playing Dwarf Fortress. Ill just go sit at the piano and play ... Dwarf Fortress And if that gets boring, sit at the !!!PIANO!! playing...

[Occoris]

That wasn't so hard. It was shorter than I remembered.











Kudos to LoopyDood again for his awesome MIDI skills.

All data can be downloaded in the OP.

[Jiri Petru]

Nice to see you here, Sir... eh... Occoris. 

The first time I heard the Gemclod team it sounded like a cacophony (is it me, or is it a bit of dissonance in there?) but now I love it and I can't get enough.

Oh and +1 for Tree killer. I find myself humming that one every now and then. It's my favourite one, right there with the Madness and Shock.

[Occoris]

Sirocco was already taken! 

And yeah, there's a lot of dissonance used to flesh out some harmony, but also because the theme itself uses a lot of dissonance implicitly.

e: Explicitly too.

[Ricky]

Oh my god, I just saw the download was 70 mb! 

All I want is the sheet music, but apparently I need to buy the whole car to get the tire :c. Can anybody help out?

[Patchouli]

Read Gemclod.

What a fantastic end.

[Occoris]

Oh my god, I just saw the download was 70 mb! 

All I want is the sheet music, but apparently I need to buy the whole car to get the tire :c. Can anybody help out?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3YU1Q555 <-- sheet music for Dwarf Fortress and Dwarven Prelude

[hermes]

Wow. The piano really turns the DF theme into a pretty haunting tune.

My thoughts exactly, it sounds beautiful and dark and mysterious on piano in a way I would have never imagined.  Great job, Occoris/Sirocco!

[Knight of Our Lady]

Just wondering how can one print the scores above for playing on a piano?
What's confusing me is that all pictures are of different size. Tried Acrobat to merge them, but it creates its own page for each one 

Adding all pictures to a document in Word worked somewhat, but pages still have different length - some are half-empty.