Commission: a theme for a character who is also a pianist/composer
2017
Wind Song
oboe improvisation 7/6/17
Song of hero
a little tolkien-esque this one … another oboe improvisation
Many waters
Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.
Raven arbitrary only at night
Thought I’d try some kind of chillout music ~
I used my friend’s construction/inspiration kit for making titles! thank you!
basically using my RPG soundset and the usual old techniques — melody instrument + harp + strings — with some more chords than I might use for my usual such doodlings! so it sounds like kind of a mix between an RPG theme and idk a John Williams tune / wind band piece / something more contemporary (/Romantic)……
Synth singing
today I have been learning about synths! ^_^ (Learning just a tiny bit of the technical stuff I should have learnt ages ago but just… made up as I went along… It’s useful!)
I thought I’d see if I could make some olde sounds like for a game using only logic’s retro synth in analog mode. listen for the “harp”, “strings”, “acoustic bass”, “clarinet” (a flute is really hard for some reason?) and of course “voice”!
Oboe and strings sketch
this is better!! gussied up version of earlier, which in itself is an orchestration/accompaniment to an oboe tune.
musical/technical note: I think I have succeeded in a basic way with some more flexible, expansive rhythms between the parts at least at this slow speed…
A lost dream
I dream of walking through an empty house, frantically searching every room for something, for you, and you’re not there.
Back then, when I had really lost you, it was a waking dream: you, in the flutter of a curtain or the wink of a sunbeam, just out of the corner of my eye. I mustn’t, but I turn around and you’re gone.
All the musical references are Polish…The rather oblique one is the shape of the start from this Chopin nocturne, very loosely.