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June 25, 2006
Logic tuning
As I described earlier, composing for carillon creates a whole range of tuning opportunities. Since the carillon Frans plays on weekly is a meantone instrument with the A tuned at 415 kHz, my original score and soundtrack can't be played without hurting our ears.
But here comes Apple's Logic to the rescue. Somewhere hidden in the menus is the command 'tuning'.
After slecting it I can not only choose meantone, but also specify which meantone tuning. Fantastic! Werckmeister III: it is a standard within Logic. Some other exotic one probably as well. And if it isn't, Logic gives me the opportunity to create my own ones.
Brilliant!
Posted by Renske at 21:19 UTC | permanent link | Comments (0)
June 19, 2006
Saved by the bell
Last night I spoke to Frans, who will perform Square Prayer in Gdansk. He told me only the roof of St. Catherine's Church was burned (bad enough) and that the carillon was saved by the solid construction of the tower. The bells were inspected last week and didn't seem to be damaged or detuned by the heat.
Only the carillon keyboard was severely damaged by the fire (or firefighting) and it will be replaced by a new one that is currently being built.
Posted by Renske at 20:17 UTC | permanent link | Comments (0)
June 11, 2006
Out of the loop
Last night I ran into one of my radio colleagues, who also is a student at the Nederlandse Beiaardschool. And he told me a couple of weeks ago St. Catherine's Church was destroyed by a fire. But he told me the tower and the carillon are still in tact.
Today I looked up some news. On the "Belgian Chocolate" blog, carillon student Tiffany writes about the fire, with some pictures.
And the Sunday Mail has a picture of the fire as well.
A tragedy for the people who take care of the church and a shock for the organization committee of the Carillon Congress
Posted by Renske at 22:08 UTC | permanent link | Comments (0)