PDA

View Full Version : Introducing Kalimoto - example music for dapper


Henrik
March 6th, 2006, 02:14 PM
Lend me your ears!

I've been sampling different kinds of Free music for the example collection on the Dapper Live CD. It's quite difficult to find music that is truly Free and is of high enough technical and musical quality.

So currently I'm leaning toward 'Miracle Lemon' by the UK band 'Kalimoto' (and a speech recording of Alice in Wonderland, ch. 1). I'd be interested in other people's view on this track, since my own musical taste is by no means universal and possibly not even good.

See:
http://www.remixcommons.org/node/309
http://www.geocities.com/kalimoto/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperExampleContent
bjweeks
March 6th, 2006, 02:22 PM
Not bad...
TechSonic
March 6th, 2006, 03:06 PM
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/smilies/rimshot.gifhttp://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/smilies/s461.gif

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/smilies/s137.gif
jc87
March 6th, 2006, 03:46 PM
Nice music , the only problem is the format being MP3 and not OGG:-k
Henrik
March 6th, 2006, 04:00 PM
Nice music , the only problem is the format being MP3 and not OGG

Oh, that's OK. It converts happily with Audacity. The file in the package is already OGG.

Btw, does anyone know how these formats compare WRT to audio quality? I've contacted the band already just to let them know. I could probably get a higher quality file from them to encode directly to OGG if that was better.
Henrik
March 6th, 2006, 04:04 PM
Update: It seems several of the people over at LibriVox are Ubuntu users (http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19041#19041) too :)

(we really should set up a general Free content page in the wiki to get an overview of what's there).
majikstreet
March 6th, 2006, 10:18 PM
Miracle lemon is neat :D
welsh_spud
March 6th, 2006, 11:08 PM
Hold the bus! Isn't Ubuntu mean't to be multilingual? So wouldn't putting a reading of Alice in Wonderland and an English singing band be a bit iffy?
Lord Illidan
March 6th, 2006, 11:15 PM
Hold the bus! Isn't Ubuntu mean't to be multilingual? So wouldn't putting a reading of Alice in Wonderland and an English singing band be a bit iffy?

At first I thought you were nitpicking, but I think it is true. While it may make perfect sense to English users, I can't imagine a non english speaker hearing it. However, I don't want to hear the same old ubuntu drums.
welsh_spud
March 6th, 2006, 11:25 PM
Put some music in that doesn't have lyrics (or put in lyrics that no one understands like monks chanting). You could have Jazz, Classical, Techno/Club/Trance, Drum solo, etc.
Henrik
March 6th, 2006, 11:27 PM
Hold the bus! Isn't Ubuntu mean't to be multilingual? So wouldn't putting a reading of Alice in Wonderland and an English singing band be a bit iffy?

That's a good point. It seems LibriVox does have stuff in other languages: http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/ Any suggestions from that list?
christhemonkey
March 6th, 2006, 11:27 PM
Yes i agree with welsh_spud, no lyrics would be better and more universal. (maybe some jazz...) although i do rather like the miracle lemon!
Bandit
March 6th, 2006, 11:49 PM
Bandit likes the music..
Henrik
March 7th, 2006, 10:12 AM
Right, so we had quite a lengthy discussion (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2006-February/000342.html) about this on the ubuntu-dektop mailing list. We first focused on classical music, but most pieces are quite long (with large file size) and the technical recording quality is often bad. We had a fairly good Nepalese track (http://www.remixcommons.org/node/153) in the running for a while. It starts fairly well, but doesn't really go anywhere IMHO (gets boring when repeated a few times). I'd be happy to listen to tracks with lyrics in other languages if anyone can dig up candidates.

Look like the LibriVox crowd is picking up the challenge (http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1604&start=15) as well now, possibly preparing a small collection of different poetry readings in four languages. Cool! We'll also be including some text documents, so some stuff from project gutenberg in different languages might be good. Again, poetry might be good since it's fairly short. Haiku anyone?
clash
March 7th, 2006, 01:20 PM
Why not some Open Music ?

http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/modules/freecontent/content/openmusic/

Magic Mushrooms - Open Source rocks :)
Henrik
March 7th, 2006, 01:41 PM
Why not some Open Music ?

Hm, the license is non-standard and seems a bit tricky in some points, like:

"The publisher and author's names shall appear on all outer surfaces of the product. On all outer surfaces of the product the original publisher's name shall be as large as the title of the work and cited as possessive with respect to the title."

That clause is not really practical for the Ubuntu CD. Some of it sounds good though.