According to a possibly apocryphal story from the premiere performance, a woman was heard shouting that Ravel was mad. When told about this, Ravel is said to have remarked that she had understood the piece.
And, Ravel did eventually go mad. There's a lot of discussion about whether the recurring patterns in the song had something to do with his neurological condition.
“Initially, Ravel was to create a variation on the music of Isaac Albéniz, but copyright laws prevented him from doing so.” [your article]
“[Koji Kondo] had planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the title theme as it perfectly matched its speed, seeing as under Japanese copyright law, music is released into the public domain 50 years after the composer's death. However, Kondo was forced to change it in November 1985, late in the game's development, after learning that it had only been 47 years and 11 months after Ravel's death.”[1]
For anyone wanting to know, the keyboard layout is that of a chromatic button accordian [0] [1].
I guess there's a C64 "executable" that he's made available but no source so I don't know what the exact keymapping is. I did find a few different resources that show the layout in action [2] [3].
Yes! Linus must really burn himself up, conceiving and executing masterworks like this! But saying "0 regrets" hopefully means he hasn't lost motivation for his next crazy project!
I forgot he was the same person who did that! I was somewhat obsessed with it earlier this year. I had found a version you can type into BASIC that pokes it into a block of memory and jumps to it, since I have access to a C64 at a hackerspace that doesn't have a floppy drive, so I've run it at least once on real hardware. (I have a new C64 Ultimate on the way as well.)
This guy's other video where he covers Clowncore's 'Computers' on computers is one of the most impressive, incredibly niche things I've ever seen on YouTube. He's a serious talent.
He has come a long way since Craft. What a total rock star. In that time I have done nothing as awesome with my life (other than enjoying his productions). Heres to 17 more years of awesomeness!
That's such a good idea with this old equipment. And you can see that the guy tried hard not to laugh. And surprisingly, the arrangement sounds great. Hilarious.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/bolero-ravel-dementia-2/
“[Koji Kondo] had planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the title theme as it perfectly matched its speed, seeing as under Japanese copyright law, music is released into the public domain 50 years after the composer's death. However, Kondo was forced to change it in November 1985, late in the game's development, after learning that it had only been 47 years and 11 months after Ravel's death.”[1]
Funny how things rhyme.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_gam...
1. https://radiolab.org/podcast/unraveling-bolero
Ah it's called The Commodordion https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php
A direct youtube link for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6z5__6rP58
https://linusakesson.net/qweremin/
Brilliant.
Qweremin: C64 Theremin: https://linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/index.php
Qwertar: C64 Keytar: https://linusakesson.net/music/glyptodont-live/index.php
Very neat!
I am part of the LOAD "*", 8, 1 generation, and this is really freaking cool.
One of the funniest things in the video is the variety of neck tie configurations, one for each part.
I guess there's a C64 "executable" that he's made available but no source so I don't know what the exact keymapping is. I did find a few different resources that show the layout in action [2] [3].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsZ41pA_Vo&t=58s
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_button_accordion
[2] https://okathira-dev.github.io/client-web-api-sandbox/button...
[3] https://www.rmwinslow.com/tones/
(Yes, I've heard the Ravel before, I mean the presentation style, e.g. Oldfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtqKZ6GrY )
That's the most important number in stores like this one.
<= 0 regrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
The photo of "the automaton" appears to be a melamine white particleboard panel.
https://www.linusakesson.net/music/bolero/boxes-large.jpg
(Sandra Boynton is amazing, no matter what she does.)
That's such a good idea with this old equipment. And you can see that the guy tried hard not to laugh. And surprisingly, the arrangement sounds great. Hilarious.
Those disc drive sounds are so cool