Hello!
I wanted to share with you this piece I wrote some weeks ago and got performed and a good workshop a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately the recording was good enough for me to salvage it! I fancy it a lot but I understand that this is not easy music really. Still I relaly like the recording.
Never the less I would love to see your reactions, feedback to this.
www.nikolas-sideris.com/stuff/intmusic.mp3 (http://www.nikolas-sideris.com/stuff/intmusic.mp3) (6 Mb) (<-the music)
www.nikolas-sideris.com/stuff/intmusic.pdf (http://www.nikolas-sideris.com/stuff/intmusic.pdf) (300 Kb) (<-the score)
(http://www.nikolas-sideris.com/stuff/intmusic.jpg)
the waveform (since I use them in my site why not?)
Enjoy :o
PS. I'm also waiting for a string orchestra recording to get in my hands this week, which I will post about as well. I'm just flooded with recordings this time of the year, and I'm paying much attention to my phd... :) Hope you won't mind. :)
ever tried something like symphonic orchestra by steinberg? anyone got a good sugestion for a really good orchestral sample pack that has good strings as well as good brass
What a weird first reply... ???
How much are you looking to spend?
google the following words:
"VSL" (most expensive)
"EastWest" (medium)
"GPO" or "Garritan" cheap
"Kirk Hunter"
VSL and EW are the major pro players but there are others around.
Keep in mind that with the large packages you need more than 1 computer to play properly... And good hard disks and the rest...
These are the major players around for whole orchestra. Don't try Motu or Steinberg they simply suck! Anything else just let me know... Or PM me or something...
Sounds like a neat score to either a cartoon or an old noir flick. I likes it very much. Well done.
Back on topic.
Certainly not easy listening but I like it, I think of something with mystery and suspense like 5DaS when I hear it, or a black and white film. I see the title "Interactive Music" - is this written for something in particular? Keep it up, you know your strings (and your scores!)
It is for my PhD and it's a plan to be worked...
At the current version it's not interactive at all :P
Nice! Really great work on the piece. That's a lot of work there!
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I just got the VR strings and french horn. Those are some really nice, expressive samples! The french horn is amazing, most definitely the best I've heard.
The music has a creeping (not creepy) quality that is enduring, but not much else. There's lots of shifting and unresty bits, and a lot of timbral qualities to the playing that I enjoy, but on the whole, I do not find something to hook me into following the interval progressions and harmony. It seems a bit random. It's unstable without being interesting, mutating without promising meaning.
I would suggest you listen to an old Belgian band, called Univers Zero. If you can, find their album 'Heresie'. If you want, I can upload a song. I am asking this so you may hear what they do with instrumentation you'll be intimately familiar with, and with compositional premises you're intimately familiar with, but an end result that I can only say is so so so interesting. It's just a comparable starting point that I think you'd benefit from looking into.
Thansk Greg :)
Helm, thank you for posting! :) I do agree with you on some terms... I mean that I understand what you mean. :) Yes, do upload something please or contact me through MSN. After that I will probably buy the album (considering I like it)...
For me (who wrote the piece ) those short and interesting lines here and there ar eenough hooks to stand and wait 10-15 secs for the next to come. It's the anticipation that counts for me, but I personally don't count as audience really... :-\
Anyways thanks for posting :)
I will post the Univers Zero track to the song thread soon.