Play it backwards, Sam

I just found out how easy it is to listen music backwards.
Just put the cd in computer, flip the file around and voilá!
E.g Bach's sonatas and partitas for cello sound as I never heard them before.

 

Never seen that function. Have you got a special program?

Not necessary a good thing.
A german organist Martin Sander has recorded the Bach Toccata BWV 565 backwards. I.e. he plays it backwards, no digital manipulation, so you can hear that the instrument is an organ. He calls the piece Ataccot! I don't know what he wants to say. It is mildly spoken ridiculous.

 

yes, I have Sonar sequencer program which has that function.

If I flip that Ataccot record around, will the result be normal Toccata?

 

I doubt it would sound exatcly the same as the Tocaata - one reason being notes have a natural decay in the sound that would be impossibel to replicate just by playing the same sequence of notes in reverse order

 

Not quite, the attack will come in the end of each note and not in the beginning as it should. And detached notes will become preceded by an artificial pre-ecco = the reversed reverberation. But else it would be the "normal" Toccata, I think.

BTW Bat, what do you think of Ingrid Matthews'Bach Sonates and Suites.

 

Well, Ingrid Matthews plays a baroque violin or whatever, which gives her Bach an austere, almost mystical feeling, which is very appropriate to this music. I just compared it to Mullova's cd. Mullova's Bach is fluent and masterful, more fluent, virtuosic, but I prefer Matthew's austere sound, and I feel that Matthews sort of tells more stories with her violin, and never does show off.
But I am not a very big fan of this music, after all it is just solo violin.

 

I think she gives a priority to the beauty of the music, like Christian Tetzlaff in his first recording of these works, but she has got more sense of the structure of the music than Tetzlaff.

This is just the miraculous thing.

 

I agree they are good and melodic but not nearly as good as e.g the d minor keyboard concerto BWV 1052. Now that's Bach at his best. I could listen to that concerto 100 times in a row.

 

Audacity is a freeware Audio Editor, available on the Internet. It has this function, too.