Hey Richard,

Feel free to include anything in http://parnasse.com/midi in this 
project.  How will the composer be attributed?  By folder name?  The 
pieces don't have any other indicator of their being composed by me...

Sounds like a fantastic project!

Jeff

Dr. Richard Boulanger wrote:
> *From: *   rboulanger@csounds.com 
> *Subject: * *Would You Please Donate *General MIDI Arrangements* to Me 
> for OLPC?*
> *Date: * November 2, 2007 1:04:05 PM EDT
> *To: *   rboulanger@berklee.edu 
>
> Dear Colleagues, Students, and Friends,
>
> As many of you know, I have been working with Barry Vercoe, Jean 
> Piche, Greg Thompson, Jim Gettys, and Walter Bender and others at One 
> Laptop Per Child http://laptop.org developing, collecting, and testing 
> Csound5-based activities and instrument models on thier amazing $100 
> laptop.
>
> Some months ago, I put out a call for sample donations, and I want to 
> thank all of you who contributed.  These amazing sounds
> are currently being organized and edited and will soon be avaialble 
> for you all to check out.
>
> In fact, using these samples, and those donated by Berklee, and 
> especially those by Avid/M-Audio, I am currently putting together a 
> General MIDI sample set for OLPC that will allow all the children of 
> the work to play any GM file on thier laptops.  Currently
> they use Csound5 to play (ANY GM file!) on a brilliant set of 
> instruments designed by Victor Lazzarini, Istvan Varga, and Steven Yi.
>
> I am putting together the final sample set and the corresponding 
> orchestra/activity this and next month and it is going very well.
>
> But... Here is where I need your help.
>
> I need General MIDI Music to include on the laptops:
> - children's songs
> - world music
> - classical music
> - pop
> - rock
> - jazz
> - dance
> - spiritual
> - hymns, religious
> - standards
> - sing-alongs
>
> + General MIDI versions of YOUR music.
> + General MIDI arrangements of Children's Songs, Sing-Alongs, 
> Classical Masterworks, World-Music Sound-Alikes
>
> Here, for instance, are links to a great sources of children's songs 
> and folk songs in General MIDI format - BUT
> I can't use them because these specific *arrangements* are copyrighted.
>
> http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/music.htm#copyright
> http://www.billybear4kids.com/midi/MIDITunes.html
> http://www.notation.com/MIDI-Folk.php
>
> Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>
> I need NEW GM arrangements (your versions) of some of these public 
> domain children's songs (your favorites)
> I need NEW GM arrangements (your versions) of classical masterworks
> I need NEW MUSIC - YOUR MUSIC - in General MIDI format
>
> You would be offering YOUR original General MIDI arrangements of these 
> public domain songs and masterworks -
> (or your original *sound-alikes* and music to the world under the 
> Creative Commons *BY* License - where YOU would
> get full Attribution for your creative work and no one could steal 
> your songs, but you would be letting anyone
> play them, share them, remix them, and re-distribute them.
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
>
> Can you help me?
> Can you send me some of your original General MIDI *arrangements* of 
> Public Domain FolkSongs,
> ChildrensSongs, Classical Masterworks
> (Just use Quicktime Musical Instruments or the Windows equivalent and 
> email me the .mid files you create.)
>
> Timeframe: the sooner the better
>
> I would like to get some of this GM arrangements out there in time for 
> the OLPC *Give One Get One*
> program (which you should all check out - For a limited time, you can 
> make a donation to OLPC and
> give a laptop to a child somewhere in the world - and get one for 
> yourself!  You will be blown
> away by the machine and the activities but especailly by Piche and 
> Company's *TamTam* - and won't
> believe that it's all Csound5 under the hood!)
>
> Check out:
>
> http://www.xogiving.org/
>
> The G1G1 program begins on November 12.
>
> I should be done looping, and fine-tuning my OLPC GM Sample Set by the 
> end of December.
> So - how about getting me your music and arrangements by Christmas.
> It would be an awsome gift - to me... and especially... to the 
> children of the world!
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Wishing you ALL the happiest of holidays
> - filed with inspiration, peace, friends, family and great music.
>
> Dr. B.
>

Thanks Jeff,

There will be a database listing all contributors.  There will be  
folders with composer/arranger names.  And ???  still up to  
suggestions as I put things together that are donated.

It is a fantastic and important humanitarian project.   Peace through  
Csound.

-dB

On Nov 3, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Jeff Harrington wrote:

> Hey Richard,
>
> Feel free to include anything in http://parnasse.com/midi in this  
> project.  How will the composer be attributed?  By folder name?   
> The pieces don't have any other indicator of their being composed  
> by me...
>
> Sounds like a fantastic project!
>
> Jeff
>
> Dr. Richard Boulanger wrote:
>> *From: *   rboulanger@csounds.com 
>> *Subject: * *Would You Please Donate *General MIDI Arrangements*  
>> to Me for OLPC?*
>> *Date: * November 2, 2007 1:04:05 PM EDT
>> *To: *   rboulanger@berklee.edu 
>>
>> Dear Colleagues, Students, and Friends,
>>
>> As many of you know, I have been working with Barry Vercoe, Jean  
>> Piche, Greg Thompson, Jim Gettys, and Walter Bender and others at  
>> One Laptop Per Child http://laptop.org developing, collecting, and  
>> testing Csound5-based activities and instrument models on thier  
>> amazing $100 laptop.
>>
>> Some months ago, I put out a call for sample donations, and I want  
>> to thank all of you who contributed.  These amazing sounds
>> are currently being organized and edited and will soon be  
>> avaialble for you all to check out.
>>
>> In fact, using these samples, and those donated by Berklee, and  
>> especially those by Avid/M-Audio, I am currently putting together  
>> a General MIDI sample set for OLPC that will allow all the  
>> children of the work to play any GM file on thier laptops.  Currently
>> they use Csound5 to play (ANY GM file!) on a brilliant set of  
>> instruments designed by Victor Lazzarini, Istvan Varga, and Steven  
>> Yi.
>>
>> I am putting together the final sample set and the corresponding  
>> orchestra/activity this and next month and it is going very well.
>>
>> But... Here is where I need your help.
>>
>> I need General MIDI Music to include on the laptops:
>> - children's songs
>> - world music
>> - classical music
>> - pop
>> - rock
>> - jazz
>> - dance
>> - spiritual
>> - hymns, religious
>> - standards
>> - sing-alongs
>>
>> + General MIDI versions of YOUR music.
>> + General MIDI arrangements of Children's Songs, Sing-Alongs,  
>> Classical Masterworks, World-Music Sound-Alikes
>>
>> Here, for instance, are links to a great sources of children's  
>> songs and folk songs in General MIDI format - BUT
>> I can't use them because these specific *arrangements* are  
>> copyrighted.
>>
>> http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/music.htm#copyright
>> http://www.billybear4kids.com/midi/MIDITunes.html
>> http://www.notation.com/MIDI-Folk.php
>>
>> Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>>
>> I need NEW GM arrangements (your versions) of some of these public  
>> domain children's songs (your favorites)
>> I need NEW GM arrangements (your versions) of classical masterworks
>> I need NEW MUSIC - YOUR MUSIC - in General MIDI format
>>
>> You would be offering YOUR original General MIDI arrangements of  
>> these public domain songs and masterworks -
>> (or your original *sound-alikes* and music to the world under the  
>> Creative Commons *BY* License - where YOU would
>> get full Attribution for your creative work and no one could steal  
>> your songs, but you would be letting anyone
>> play them, share them, remix them, and re-distribute them.
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
>>
>> Can you help me?
>> Can you send me some of your original General MIDI *arrangements*  
>> of Public Domain FolkSongs,
>> ChildrensSongs, Classical Masterworks
>> (Just use Quicktime Musical Instruments or the Windows equivalent  
>> and email me the .mid files you create.)
>>
>> Timeframe: the sooner the better
>>
>> I would like to get some of this GM arrangements out there in time  
>> for the OLPC *Give One Get One*
>> program (which you should all check out - For a limited time, you  
>> can make a donation to OLPC and
>> give a laptop to a child somewhere in the world - and get one for  
>> yourself!  You will be blown
>> away by the machine and the activities but especailly by Piche and  
>> Company's *TamTam* - and won't
>> believe that it's all Csound5 under the hood!)
>>
>> Check out:
>>
>> http://www.xogiving.org/
>>
>> The G1G1 program begins on November 12.
>>
>> I should be done looping, and fine-tuning my OLPC GM Sample Set by  
>> the end of December.
>> So - how about getting me your music and arrangements by Christmas.
>> It would be an awsome gift - to me... and especially... to the  
>> children of the world!
>>
>> Thanks so much,
>>
>> Wishing you ALL the happiest of holidays
>> - filed with inspiration, peace, friends, family and great music.
>>
>> Dr. B.
>>
>
>