Romance For Viola and Piano

[djimtio]

Hi Adrian

This is a way of composing AND engineering a wannabee musician like me can only dream of.
Thanks for sharing and keep them coming

Regards

Djim

[adrianallan]

Thanks for your generous comments.

Having never made a penny out of any of my efforts I'm as much a wannabe as the next man.

A friend of mine is doing a more professional mix of this piece using better samples like Vienna Special Edition and professional convolution reverb. I will post a link to this if it gets finished.

Cheers

adrian

[adrianallan]

My Friend's recording of this piece using much more high tech equipment is here:

http://www.box.net/shared/1gcefo7f0v

If people are still interested they might like to hear this.

He used:

Viola is VSL
Piano is Kawai EX Pro from AcousticSamples
Reverb is Altiverb Todd AR recording stage ER and Aether Piano Hall tail.

He's trying to point me more in the direction of production music libraries (he thinks it could work in a TV drama) whereas I've traditionally put the emphasis on the score.

[mgj32]

Hi Adrian,
Nice. Very nice.
all best,
mgj

[rrayner]

Hi Adrian,

Your new post of this piece is absolutely beautiful. Your friend has helped you take this piece to a very high level. Indeed, I could imagine this being the background music in a tender love scene.

I love the shifting tonalities and as you know from my scores, I also love the inner dissonances and close voicings in the piano accompaniment. Very nicely done.

Ralph

[adrianallan]

Thanks for listening. Although we all benefit from this technology, the implication is that to have any success as a composer you now have to not only be a good musician, but also have ICT skills to match. I'm still learning both, but my priority is always for the music, not the ICT.

I some ways I envy the days when real musicians were hired for recording projects, but now you're expected to do it all; so it's actually a harder slog.

Most TV themes (apart from the very well financed) are done partly if not completely on sample libraries - the very best of which you'd be hard pressed to know it wasn't a real orchestra !

I'll keep my writing aimed at real musicians, but until anyone agrees to perform my pieces (that's a challenge in itself), it's nice to have an idea how they might sound.

Well done! nice piece of music! I really like your composition. If I will rate this from 1-10 where 10 is the highest I would give you 10. Great job!