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Wind Chimes | download mp3
Mom came to me one day, challenging me to write a song from the notes of the wind chimes on our front porch. I didn’t want to limit my note palette to six notes, but I noticed that they did make a pretty good arpeggio… The song blossomed from that until a backup accident destroyed the project files. The story would have ended there if not for Johann, who decided that he liked the song so much that he wanted to re-create it. And so he did, spending a few days (spread over a couple of weeks) painstakingly re-creating the melodies and trying to find the right synths for the job. Then he handed it back to me, and I spent a few days (spread over a few months) editing the song to my liking. Then I spent a few days making a music video.
Everything you see and hear in this video was created using open-source software.
Software used:
- LMMS (music)
- Audacity (audio clip at the beginning)
- Blender (video)
- Gimp (pixel art)
- AniMIDI (the pulsing effect) @heinzsander
- Audacious (visualizer)
- VLC (visualizer)
- OBS Studio (recording the visualizer)
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