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Jerry Gerber

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  • Birthday 01/26/1951

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  1. Thank you for watching & listening Treesha.
  2. Jerry Gerber

    Starstruck

    An astrophotographic music video featuring the gorgeous astrophotography of Timothy Martin WATCH
  3. I think Martin was right. I forgot to add the volume envelopes to the piece. The dynamics are better now..
  4. Hi Martin, I am pretty sure the dynamics are right for the piece. I'll go back and take a listen to see if I really want to change anything. There are crescendos & decrescendos, I have no idea why you're not hearing them. The movement has a dynamic range of 8.03 dB, which is, I admit, a bit lower than many of my symphonic movements. When I listen to it at a moderately low level, it sounds fine but if i crank it up too loud, it does seem a little flat dynamically. When I master the entire symphony I'll mix this movement at a lower amplitude. The lack of dynamics in the score has nothing to do with the recording, which contains all the dynamics in the MIDI sequence. I don't put dynamics in the score (nobody wrote out dynamics until the 19th century) because there are no players. Same with string bowings and wind/brass breathing marks. If there were players I'd put them in. I know how to do that. But for digitally produced music they're redundant. I wrote a brief article about why I don't put these marks in the score, which irritates a lot of composers who write for live players, but I am not concerned with that tradition: https://www.jerrygerber.com/markings.htm Here's the waveform, you can see it has dynamic range:
  5. This is the slow movement of the new symphony I'm currently working on. It may also become the soundtrack to my next astro music video. It took me quite a while to begin liking this piece as I know the pitfalls of writing an adagio and had to work hard to overcome them. If you want to look at the score, remember to open it in a new tab or it will cut-off the playback of the recording. Jerry https://www.jerrygerber.com/symph13mvt3.htm
  6. Thanks Freddy, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Jerry
  7. I hope not! Thanks for watching/listening Old Joad!
  8. Thanks Martin! I have a 130mm refractor at an observatory in the mountains of New Mexico, about 1000 miles from where I live in San Francisco. I operate the telescope remotely and download the hundreds of "subs" (many frames are necessary as exposure times are in hours) and process them at home. For more detailed info, visit: https://www.astrobin.com/users/jsg Jerry
  9. I hope this 6' 42" video brings you some transcendence, peace and a short escape from the chaos and darkness that politics is bringing to our beautiful world. https://www.jerrygerber.com/video/Across the Universe.mp4
  10. Thanks people for listening, much appreciated. Jerry
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