Any artists here?

[SMZ]

No, not you doodling, vegetarian types. ~;) I mean musicians, singers, emcees, etc...

Personally, my singing is abysmal, I have some small talent making beats and I've been an emcee for a short minute now. And yes, you more perceptive ones will realize this is a not so subtle plug. Now, I will wait to pounce on someone who asks for a sample. :)

[IrishMike]

Well if you could call my attempt to play the guitar, being a musician. I guess I am then. Also used to play the trumpet.

[Byzantine Prince]

No, not you doodling,

awww,...:sad3: ~;)



On a serious note, yes I do what i consider art. I take artistic photographs. I am also really interested in films, and I would like to make one one day, even if it sucks. :balloon2: ~:) :balloon2:

[SMZ]

ahh - interesting - any particular style of photos? landscapes? cityscape? people? etc?

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and so much for sublety:

http://www.soundclick.com/util/streamM3U.m3u?ID=2653056&q=Hi

needs a final EQ and such, but the guy who was doing the producing is MIA... and I got tired of waiting

[Big_John]

haha, the one about "black jesus" was pretty funny. was that used in an actual battle?

unfortunately i don't think you'll find many rap/hiphop fans on these boards (there's probably like 3 total). is this something you want to make a career of? if so, you probably need to get out of SC right?

while i'm not a big fan of your style (just not to my taste), talent-wise i think you're probably pretty good for an amateur. i'd need to hear those songs after the producer hits them anyway. keep at it.

[SMZ]

yeah - done a bit of battling, more of a songwriter though

I post on a couple boards dedicated to hiphop - I just figured since I started posting here I'd throw it out there... I dunno about career - been recording for six or seven months now - if I can make money of it well and good - if not, that's fine too... and yeah SC is pretty dead as far as opportunity

thanks for the feedback - you do anything yourself or just a keen eared listener?

[Beirut]

I play the keyboards. Not that well, but well enough to have fun. Mostly Pink Floyd and Deep Purple songs.

[Big_John]

you do anything yourself or just a keen eared listener?just a listener, unfortunately.

[Kraellin]

well, since 'artist' is a pretty broad term, here's what i've been doing lately. or, at least a sampling thereof. this is all photo-art, photo restoration, photo manipulation and so on.

http://mizus.com/kraellin/restore-1-k-1.jpg http://mizus.com/kraellin/restore-kraellin-1.jpg

http://mizus.com/kraellin/mini-challenge-44-butterfly-as.jpg http://mizus.com/kraellin/chocolate-butterfly-1-k-1a.jpg

K.

[edyzmedieval]

I have questions, indeed, Kraellin....

Where did you get that avatar?! I LOVE IT!!!!! ~D

And BTW, I had plans on becoming a musician but I dropped it....

[Marcellus]

Nice Work, Kraellin. ~:)

As for being an 'artist', I play the piano and viola, mosty classical stuff.

[Kraellin]

edyz,

i made the avatar from some others i had edited or made myself.

thanks, marcellus :)

K.

[TheSilverKnight]

I compose my own music, Neo-Baroque style. My mates tell me it's pretty good.

[The Wizard]

Of those three, I'm one of them. ~;) Influenced by Mos Def, Rakim and Nas is respect, my friend. But, you sure you not influenced by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien? I dunno, but samples of your work (particularly that collab with Bounce) remind me of Del.

Personally, I dabble in freestyling occasionally with some friends -- in Dutch, mind you. If you can speak of influences, I would speak of Slick Rick, CL Smooth and Big Gipp (yes, omg, dirty south rapper from Goodie Mob ~;p) -- but those are my favorite MCs to listen to skill-wise. Usually composed of the first wackass/crazy thoughts that come up in my mind, which I weld together in a rhyme scheme. These freestyles aren't too long, only about forty-fifty bars -- but better than that pop hoe 50 with his crapass rhymes but catchy hooks (not to mention what his success rests on: Dr. Dre's producing talent), if I may say so myself. I'm more of a freebooting Biz Markie ~D

My only other art is writing -- which I take a lot more seriously. And do a lot more often (even though some fans may disagree on that last bit ~;)).



~Wiz

[SMZ]

heh - my "influenced by" list is also my "only people I listen to" list basically - negroes be poor and can't afford buying CD's nah mean? I could always download music, but my connection is most unfortunately only 56k... and I don't have the patience for that - so I said all that to finally get to the point that I never heard anything by Del :(

yeah, I agree freestyling is pretty fun when you get in that mood - don't get me started on 50 and the other pop-rap stars... errrr

What type of things do you write? I've always wrote a lot and that's what kinda led into this. I started writing lyrics and then my friends kept bugging me so I started performing said lyrics

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Nice work especially on the children's photo Kraellin

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Marcellus I took piano lessons as a child, but sadly remember almost nothing. I can read the music, but I'm reduced to pecking the notes out :( Viola is a nice instrument, I like fast paced songs

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Silver Knight - Neo-Baroque? I could look it up but I figure since you're interested in it you'll probably enjoy telling anyway :)

[Taurus]

unfortunately i don't think you'll find many rap/hiphop fans on these boards (there's probably like 3 total).

I am one of those 3. I love rap and hip hop. Although my singing is not all that good, I try.

[Big_John]

just a guess, but neo-baroque is probably just baroque music composed after the baroque era (in this case, contemporarily). i would attempt to describe baroque music as the emergence of monody, and the morphing of renaissance polyphony into counterpoint. a few major baroque composers are monteverdi (early), vivaldi and purcell (middle), and bach and handel (late).

neo-baroque is probably similar to neo-classical in that it's not strictly limited to a regurgitation of it's mother-style; it probably borrows a little from musical styles developed after baroque music. as an example of what i'm referring to, compare some classical music (haydn, mozart, etc.) to neo-classical works like prokofiev's 1st symphony, stravinsky's piano concerto, or hindemith's kammermusik works.

any of the major 'movements' in art-music probably have a "neo-" version by this point. however, i don't think i've ever heard any neo-baroque music.

Silver, do you have any samples of your compositions you can share?

[edyzmedieval]

I am one of those 3. I love rap and hip hop. Although my singing is not all that good, I try.

Count 4.... I'm obsessed with rap/hip hop....

Nas(awesome rapper), Run DMC, MC Hammer, Public Enemy(man, I love them), 2Pac(R.I.P.).....

And from the modern times: Murphy Lee and Ludacris.

[Samurai Waki]

I do a touch of lyrics/song writing, as well as some poetry. I do sing, can't say my voice is abysmal, just not par with professionals.

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
Count 4.... I'm obsessed with rap/hip hop....

Nas(awesome rapper), Run DMC, MC Hammer, Public Enemy(man, I love them), 2Pac(R.I.P.).....

And from the modern times: Murphy Lee and Ludacris.

~:cheers: ~:cheers: ~:cheers: ~:cheers: ~:cheers:


~:cheers:

[TheSilverKnight]

just a guess, but neo-baroque is probably just baroque music composed after the baroque era (in this case, contemporarily). i would attempt to describe baroque music as the emergence of monody, and the morphing of renaissance polyphony into counterpoint. a few major baroque composers are monteverdi (early), vivaldi and purcell (middle), and bach and handel (late).

neo-baroque is probably similar to neo-classical in that it's not strictly limited to a regurgitation of it's mother-style; it probably borrows a little from musical styles developed after baroque music. as an example of what i'm referring to, compare some classical music (haydn, mozart, etc.) to neo-classical works like prokofiev's 1st symphony, stravinsky's piano concerto, or hindemith's kammermusik works.

any of the major 'movements' in art-music probably have a "neo-" version by this point. however, i don't think i've ever heard any neo-baroque music.

Silver, do you have any samples of your compositions you can share?

You are correct in your explanation.
I unfortunately have no midi files of mine (I compose and perform on a midi keyboard) uploaded, but I'll look into it. ~:)

[Big_John]

I unfortunately have no midi files of mine (I compose and perform on a midi keyboard) uploaded, but I'll look into it. ~:)yeah, it'll give me a chance to fire up my copy of finale2000! ~:cheers:

for file-hosting try http://www.rapidshare.de

edit: hmm, would karl jenkins' palladio be considered neo-baroque? what about villa-lobos' bachianas brasileiras? if so, then i have heard neo-baroque. ~:)

[TheSilverKnight]

yeah, it'll give me a chance to fire up my copy of finale2000! ~:cheers:

for file-hosting try http://www.rapidshare.de

edit: hmm, would karl jenkins' palladio be considered neo-baroque? what about villa-lobos' bachianas brasileiras? if so, then i have heard neo-baroque. ~:)

Bachianas Brasilieras is very reminiscent of works by Robert de Visee and Sylvius Leopold Weiss, both of those accomplished 18th century lutists, so I think Bachianas Brasiliers could be considered both modernistic and neo-baroque ~:)

[Steppe Merc]

I play a bit of guitar, and I can sing. Not well, but I do. ~;)

[The Wizard]

Blah, Tupac. Gimme Biggie any day -- but then I'm more of an Eastcoast brother man, if you catch my drift. And while I like that Biggie's slow flow doesn't impair his skill, the recycling of old samples by his producer Puffy doesn't really earn him props. ~;) Although Big's pre-Ready To Die freestyles are surprisingly good. Not quite last episode of Yo! MTV Raps quality, but still good.

SMZ, I do occasionally write rhymes when friends bug me with it, but mostly I don't write those but stories. Fan fiction or something out of my own mind, short or long, you name it -- whatever comes up in my mind. Think of the movie Finding Forrester, subtract the socially critical/conscious part (I write about common emotions, problems and feelings, yes, but not in a way comparable to such books as Catcher in the Rye -- I'm not good enough [yet?] to achieve such levels, obviously) and you're probably quite close. Well, no old famous writer to teach me (again, yet? ~;)), but still close! ~D



~Wiz

[Gobby]

I kick back in me spare time and muck about with a couple of music porgrames
Acid pro
Fruitloops
good to cut and edit loops . morph wave lenghths pitchs and tone
few good concepts house, trance , heavy, rave wateva ya fancy .

[GoreBag]

I'm not a good guitar player, but I can manage a little bit on the piano, and the tin whistle is coming, slowly but surely. Mostly, I stick to vocals, which, if I may be so immodest, is one of my better abilities.

[Kraellin]

Nice work especially on the children's photo Kraellin

thanks, SMZ :)

K.

[Degtyarev14.5]

For anyone looking for neo-Baroque repertoire, I fully recommend the Concerto Grossi of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998).

Schnittke: brief biography (http://www.schirmer.com/composers/schnittke_bio.html)

A.