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NOTE ON PLAYING MIDI FILES: All my MIDI works are meant to be played using the standard Microsoft GS Wavetable. Usage of any other wavetable will give unintended results. By all means experiment if you have the capability, but please be aware that what you end up with will not be what I intended!
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Electronic Symphony "Son of Man" op.12 (1980)

66:00
A synth excursion based on Robert Silverberg's book. There are seven areas which the Hero has to traverse. The music is appropriate for each area, and ranges from fairly melodic (Ice & Fire) to extremely dense (Old & Heavy) to solo instrument (Empty & Dark). Challenging stuff - as is the book. The sound quality is not as good as I would like, but it was originally recorded on cassette tape in 1980.
There are two or three versions of almost all of the "movements" if you include the MIDI versions below, so if you like you can play mix & match to get the best version.
The whole symphony (plus extras) is available in a handy zip file on MegaUpload.
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