Jerry Gerber

A new astrophotographic music video featuring the gorgeous astrophotography of Timothy Martin. Music from the album Virtual Harmonics I hope this video helps to take your mind off this confused world for 5 minutes and contemplate the cosmic perspective...

Thank you Treesha for taking time to watch! Jerry

Thanks Tom! Glad you appreciate the videos... Jerry

I've placed my music videos on a You Tube channel for those who interested in music and astronomy... Jerry https://youtube.com/@astromusicvideo

Thanks Bjorn! I've never used CW articulations. I spend most of my editing time in the event list, the controllers view and the tempo window. I use an awful lot of velocity changes, attack and release changes and numerous cc's to change articulations in the VSL orchestral cube, the library I use. Also a lot of tempo changes and I also use volume envelopes when I render the MIDI file to audio. I agree that writing for live players is much easier, particularly when you have excellent players, because they can make (sometimes) even a crappy composition sound good. I've long said that MIDI makes a lot possible, but not necessarily easy or simple.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to listen and comment Jerry

I suggest listening to this when you're not tired or hungry, there's a lot going on. Scored for 31 wind, brass and percussion instruments + 2 full string sections (Vienna Symphonic Cube) Jerry PLAY

Thanks Bjorn! Advances in camera sensor technology and astronomical telescope mounts have been astounding in the past decade, which allows amateurs like me to take images as good or better than a large observatory could in the 1960s. Similar to the way music and recording technology has evolved. Jerry

Thanks Nigel, Larry & KSband for watching, glad you enjoyed it! Jerry

https://www.jerrygerber.com/video/The Speed of Light.mp4 The images were taken in my backyard and at various dark sky sites in Northern California. The soundtrack is the 2nd movement from my 12th symphony.

I've posted these a few months ago but now I've used .wav audio and .tiff images rather than .mp3 and .jpg. Th images look a bit better and the audio is a lot better. Enjoy! CREATION DEEP SPACE When I'm outside at night at 2am imaging deep space objects I realize how small and insignificant we humans are and if our species doesn't learn to live in peace with one another and take proper care of our planet, the universe is just going to say "F***k you, get lost", and we'll become extinct as so many millions of other species have.. We need nature, nature doesn't need us. The music for Creation is the slow movement from my oboe concerto, from the album From Cosmic Dust (2022) https://www.jerrygerber.com/fromcosmicdust.htm The music for Deep Space is a track called The Galaxies from my album Number Eleven: The Path (2011) https://www.jerrygerber.com/thepath.htm The astrophotographs were taken in my backyard in San Francisco, and in various dark sky locations around northern California. If I listed all the equipment I used to do this it would be ridiculously long, so I'll just say it's a lot of stuff! But if you're curious, ask me and I will tell you. Jerry

While visiting Scotland a few weeks ago I went to the Scottish National Museum and saw the guillotine that was used to behead Queen Mary. A lot of Scots didn't like Queen Mary. On the day of her beheading, she was given her last meal and when she requested coffee, they served her a a large decapiccino. I went to the doctor's last week and he said I should get the new RSV shot. But he warned me not to get it right before I have to urinate, otherwise I'll have to RSVP. I've been having recurring dreams that I purchased both Antarctica and the Arctic. My doctor doesn't know what's wrong with me but when I told my stockbroker he knew right away that I suffer from bi-polar. Jerry www.jerrygerber.com ?

Thanks Nigel for listening, much appreciated! Jerry

Of course!

Thanks Tom!

This is one of my personal favorites, composed and produced during the pandemic when I wasn't leaving the house... Jerry PLAY

Sibelius is the notation software I've been using for decades...

Thanks all for listening! Jerry

I completed this four movement work today and am posting the entire composition. Composed in Cakewalk with and for the VSL solo string collection PLAY

I've posted various movements from this composition so I thought I'd post the entire symphony for those that might be interested. It's a a big ask, I know, it's not a short piece and will take time to listen to. I believe it's worth your while if you enjoy complex and accessible music. PLAY Jerry

The lead instrument is a Vienna Symphonic Library oboe. Thanks noynekker, glad you enjoyed the video.. Jerry

Thanks Peter, I'm glad you enjoyed reading the article..

No, I make all of my CC edits, insertions and deletions in the Event List and also in the Controllers View. Over the years I've gotten very fast doing it this way (motor memory and repetition!) Also CW has the dialogue box to insert multiple CCs and multiple tempos, I use those often too..

Thanks for watching Lee!

Hi Glenn, Cakewalk has an articulation screen that I never have used, it doesn't make sense based on the way I work. I didn't comment on key switches because I use them rarely, only when working with one of the vocal sample libraries I have. As far as the way use articulations, I have a dedicated computer for my VSL library, it can hold a huge amount of samples in RAM so whenever I need a new articulation i just call it up using cc22 and cc33. When I want to change, for example, a crescendo to a decrescendo, I use cc44. Control changes work well for me, so I use them extensively. Or when I want to go from a col legno to a normal pizz, I call up that articulation using CCs. In the article in SoundBytes that you mentioned that image of the CW event list displays what I am talking about. The more detail you put into your sequence, the better the music will sound. Velocity changes, articulation changes, attack and release times, tempos, cc11 and cc7--the more of these MIDI commands you use, the more expressive, intentional and nuanced the music will sound. Remember, too, there's no one right approach to working with music technology. For me the most important thing are results, . For every technique I use to create my recordings, another composer may use a different technique to achieve the same thing. That speaks to the incredible flexibility of software. Thanks for commenting Glenn! Jerry