Here is a video of the Irish set dance tune, "Vanishing Lake," played at the speed of 68 BPM, and composed by Francis Ward (winner of the Marie Duffy Foundation Excellence Award In Irish Dance Music Composition). This is a popular tune among Irish step dancers, and is often used in various competitions. I debated about repeating it a second time like I do for my other videos, but I watched many dance videos with this tune, and this video follows the same format they were in (playing the A part 3 times, and the B part once). Picking a tempo was also tricky. I settled on speed 68 because it was easier to convert 6/8 timing to within Logic to an even-numbered speed, and it seemed to be a common speed found in the dance videos I was watching. I noticed that dancers were step-dancing the actual rhythm of the melody line, and some of the higher speeds seemed almost impossible to follow to me! I know I could never step-dance that fast...
It was tricky to get this tempo in Logic Pro (or maybe I have no idea what I'm doing lol). The tempo dancers refer to would be the tempo of a 2/4 timing -- basically the eighth notes are thought of more like a triplet (this tune sounds like a jig, but it's actually not! It's a step dance...). I realized that to convert a 6/8 tempo (I think it's easier to write jig-like arrangements in Logic with the eighth notes counting as a beat) to 2/4, I had to multiply the desired tempo by 3/2, or 1.5. Sooooo..... the eighth notes are actually at the tempo of 102 BPM, but the "mid point" and "down beat" of the measures are at 68 BPM. It took me a bit to figure that out, so hopefully that explanation might help out other musicians who are wanting to make music for Irish dancers.
Apparently there is a vanishing lake in Ireland. One day, there is a giant, sparkling lake, and the next day, it might be gone. People haven't figured out where the water goes, or why, although apparently there has been some research on it. Working with dams, I've seen a few vanishing lakes myself, but not for any unknown reasons.... Usually its because of releases of the water or significant dry spells. It's weird to think that the lake in Ireland randomly might start to release water somewhere. It kind of makes me think of the Rissa disaster -- the earth turned into liquid clay after weight had been added to part of the soil, and the land slide destroyed a large section of the town of Rissa. I'm wondering if a particular type of soil might erode away when the lake reaches some particular elevation, but why it fills back in to bring the lake back is an oddity. It would be a cool mystery to solve!
I was excited to see that this local lake in Colorado was misting the day I went out there to get a bunch of footage. I had it in my head that I wanted a lot of misting lake and fog footage for this video. It was hard to capture the mist's ethereal qualities with my current equipment, but I tried. I think I like how the final video turned out, although I think I could invest in a better lens with a larger aperture. Hopefully I can do that someday soon.
Speaking of lenses, I broke my lens while making this video. =( My camera fell over and hit a rock....It was all my fault, too, because I bumped it. It was the kit lens, and has been the camera lens I've used for all of my videos using my Canon camera. People say that kit lenses aren't very good, but I've thought this lens had performed really well over the years. Time to look into new lenses.
Thank you for watching, and I hope you have a good rest of the week! =)
~ Katy
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Software and equipment used:
Full list of all my basic violin equipment:
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Software used (for Macintosh):
Garageband for attempted sound mixing
Final Cut Pro for video editing
PicMonkey.com for the ending cards
Plugins for sound effects (I have A LOT to learn in this department!):
East West plugins - Goliath Virtual Instrument,
Best Service Forest Kingdom II by Eduardo Tarilonte (See: bestservice.de)
Camera:
Canon 70D + 18-135 mm kit lens (RIP)
Microphone for audio recording:Blue Woodpecker
26 май 2023
