from http://www.wins.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/files/mid/ MIDI Filename: WTRCKHRY.MID Composition name: "Let's Make the Black Water turn Beastly Harry into an Lumbering Orange Trucker.... Oh No!!" (or something to that effect) Composer: Frank Zappa Recordings: We're Only In It for the Money (where better Weasels Ripped my Flesh versions of this Unmitigated Audacity (Rhino label / Beat the Boots) piece can be found) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. I Make a Jazz Noise Here Sequence created by: Stephen Q. Muth Praise / Poo-Poo: smuth@rmii.com Lawsuits: Yo Mama Track/channel Instrument (frills) 1 Grand Piano (low) 2 Rock Piano (high) 3 Jaco type Bass (fretless) 8 Marimba 9 Chimes 10 General MIDI drums 12 Strings, dark 13 Trombone 14 Trumpet 15 Xylophone 16 General MIDI drums Notes: Play with the balance of the tracks until you get something that is musical. No attempt has been made to make this accessible to general MIDI inastruments. You must assign all your own voices and balance all your own tracks. There are no embedded patch-change commands to screw up your gear. Each track is on a separate MIDI channel for your editing convenience. I recommend playing this piece on a multi-timbral synth with at least 30 note polyphony, such as the Yamaha SY-85. This MIDI file will overload your typical Sound Blaster or Ad Lib cards. There is just too much stuff happening at the same time. The newer generation of cards out there (Turtle Beach Monterey, or the new digital Sound Blaster) might do the trick. This piece is an emulation of Zappa's "Make a Jazz Noise Here" performance of a compilation of four pieces: Let's Make the Water Turn Black, Harry You're a Beast, The Orange County Lumber Truck, and Oh No. Each of these tunes is featured at the following measures: 1 Let's Make the Water Turn Black 64 Harry You're a Beast 90 Orange County Lumber Truck 119 Oh No If you get something musical out of this.... let me know. What did you play it on? How accessible was it? Thanks in advance. SQM P.S. I would like to add that... no matter how great you get this stuff to sound, better versions can be obtained at your local record store. Check out the Zappa section... usually under "Rock". Check the classical and electronic music sections, too.... you never know. I've even found "Jazz From Hell" in a NEW AGE section...