{"id":3153,"date":"2014-02-27T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2016-05-21T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:31:47","slug":"midi-police-are-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"Midi Police Are Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an interview from the 80s with Keith Jarrett regarding electronic instruments he said\u00a0“I just feel as though I’m in a room with a smoker”. That pretty well summed it up for me too. Didn’t like\u00a0the sound of most sampled sounds or midi controlled sounds as they emerged.<\/p>\n

Over years various sales people in music stores demonstrated the latest sampled piano sounds. Enthusiastically they would play them surely I would be floored but it didn’t happen that I was convinced until the 2000s. Plus the other sounds, the ones that aren’t trying to imitate an acoustic instrument were becoming wild and gorgeous.<\/p>\n

The second or third television series I ever scored was Wildside on Nickelodeon<\/a>\u00a0produced by the peerless Dale Burshtein and I remember in early meetings playing her a variety of sounds in my growing library and she responded favourably to the midi instruments. This was great and also weird. Great because it meant I was free to use the horn sounds or string sounds since they worked for her ears and presumably everyone else. Weird because they weren’t believable to me – but that didn’t matter, Dale was in charge and liked it so I felt I had a green light to proceed. Almost at the same time my opinions changed about sampled sounds after I heard I’m Your Man by Leonard Cohen which is filled with midi instruments, ridiculous ones… and it’s perfect.<\/p>\n

At the concert for that record at Massey Hall each musician had a keyboard in addition to their other instrument. It was funny. The oud player had a keyboard, the background singer had a keyboard and of course our hero played the midi horn solo from his own keyboard from centre stage in\u00a0I’m You Man<\/a>\u00a0 it was hilarious and glorious. I grew new parts thanks to his amazing album and Dale’s enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

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