Jörg Sigle's
Colours & Notes
This page...
...is a place for music, images and maybe other nice things.
I shouldn't have built it today, nor should I have stayed awake 'till this time of the night...
The material offered here was produced by myself. Thus I'm holding the respective copyright.
I provide all MP3- and OGG-files with works of my own as ShareMusic: You may privately use them, and share them without charging for them, unchanged, and together with information on author and source. If you like the music and if you want to and are able to support my production, any contribution is highly welcome. If you want to use the material for commercial purposes, you may suggest an appropriate remuneration. Any piece or clip is also available on CD upon individual request.
Under Linux, you can view the MPEG-videoclips with /usr/bin/totem, kaboodle, kmplayer, gmplayer, mpeg_play, Xine... - or with: $ plaympeg -l --bilinear filename.mpg.
I'm also happy about feedback and recommendations. - Thank you very much in advance for any kind of support!
10.10.2007
Space... the Final Frontier...
Eventually, everyone want a spacecraft of their own!
JMS: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-JMS Rev. 0.1 alpha (MPEG video, 386 KB)
26.09.2007
Sportscars reloaded - reworked lighting, camera, drivers...
JMS: And then there were two (MPEG video, 1.6 MB)
07.08.2007, 11.06.2007
New music:
JMS: Babbage's Analytical Engine (3:16, MP3, 3.2 MB)
JMS: Babbage's Analytical Engine (3:16, Ogg Vorbis, 2.8 MB)
01.08.2007
Two small videoclips and - for comparison - some historical software:
- A sportscar - a design of my own :-) - speeds through a forest - the viewer follows in a car of the same type (MPEG video, 5 MB).
- An animated "SC" Logo (MPEG video, 1 MB) - the modern successor of the program "sc2.com" (DOS, textmode, 567 Bytes) from about 1988 - and also of the intro of some programs in this collection of little games from the same time: "jmsgames.zip" (DOS/CGA/EGA/Hercules/textmode, 182 KB).
Both videos were made with Maya. Both were rendered with Mental-Ray using raytracing, but with clearly different goals (and rendering options):
The sportscar design has been made some months ago, using a certain method that lead to its distinctive forms. The goal of the current work was, however, to implement a usable landscape, especially a road with a somewhat realistic texture, which could be followed by several cars and cameras. To a good extent, the final appearance of the car's body is a result of reflections of the environment and of the colourful sky.
The animated logo is the late completion of an idea from 20 years ago - see the intro for some of the games to understand.
Most importantly, it realizes the simulation of a metallic, but silky-matt surface.
The collection of little games comes as a zipped directory. Please use a virus scanner after downloading, and something like an IBM AT (80286, 6 MHz) up to possibly an 80486 to try them out... As some of these programs use EGA-graphics (though some may be used with CGA when started manually), they require the fullscreen mode under systems like Microsoft Windows 9x. A Pentium III with 500 MHz under DOS is definitely too fast to try out this software. On the other hand, if it runs Linux, and inside of that emulates a virtual PC by VMware under Windows 98, the result may be too slow at least to show the simple EGA graphics animation which was the predecessor of the current animation - this depends upon the implementation of the emulation of the EGA. Two of the programs didn't run at all in this environment. After unpacking, "start.bat" + pressing any key leads to a menu. Provision only for private use, for historical and scientific purposes, and to be used at your own risk!
14.11.2005
News from several months ago: Two new Emulator Ultra fixes.
- How to fix a capacitor in the power supply
- If your E-mu loses its display - possible cause and cure (contributed by Robert Burgess).
27.07.2004
After some hours of writing, I just had to produce something different:
So I tried to make a sad ballad, but it didn't work out.
JMS: Jazz instead of a ballad (6:13, Ogg Vorbis, 5.1 MB)
Ogg encoding on quality level 4 takes away something from the very fine
textures still available on CD, but I don't want to use more megabytes.
If you can't play the file, you might try to find yourself an Ogg Vorbis player.
Addendum: 01.08.2007:
JMS: Jazz instead of a ballad (6:13, MP3, 6.9 MB)
11 or 12/2003
One of two pieces made some night before Christmas -
this is not the quiet one :-)
JMS: Things (2:14, Ogg Vorbis, 2.2 MB)
Ogg encoding on level 4 makes the sound a bit coarse, but I tried to keep storage requirements low.
If you can't play the file, you might try to find yourself an Ogg Vorbis player.
14.11.2002
First comes the soldering iron, then better playing:
How to fix a jumping wheel.
16.10.2002
Five and a half years later, this little piece of noise was made:
JMS: Noise (2:19, Ogg Vorbis, 1.5 MB)
If you can't play the file, you might try to find yourself an Ogg Vorbis player.
16.04.1997
Finally, here is an unedited MIDI-file of...
Enya - Watermark
Originally played on the Korg New SG-1D, Piano I, Chorus on, Speed 0, Depth 0. The notes probably appear on MIDI channel 11.
15.04.1997
Having heard your voice after years, I just played these notes for you,
my friend, while my mind was wandering through future and past...
Originally played on the Korg New SG-1D, Piano II, Chorus off.
It is quiet, so you can use Piano I as well.
Please don't play it on a tiny sound card piano, 'cause it requires long lasting notes...
This Web page was prepared by myself,
and so were all included graphic elements.
© 15.04.1997 03:56, 02.12.1997, 09.03.2000, 10.10.2001, 16.10.2002, 06.08.2004, 01.08.2007, 07.08.2007, 10.10.2007 Dr. med. Jörg M. Sigle, Kunstvolle EDV & Elektronik,
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