The day before Chaos was born - For Orchestra

Before the world was formed there was nothing but Chaos... But before Chaos was born the world was as beautifull and peacefull like heaven.

The file is scored for orchestra and took me about a week to write. I'm still making some changes to the orchestration but in general this is the piece.

I hope you like it and please have as much critique as you want!

Btw, the MP3 file is made with Finale's Softsynth-sounds, so don't expect a great sounding recording. If I'm lucky I might get a recording by the local orchestra, but that's not sure right now.

RECORDING

Hey Steven, Very nice work here! A peaceful scene you have created. Great use of orchestration and sections; especially the harp; helped to create that "light" mood.
Also enjoyed the percussion; nicely positioned and restrained. Great job!

Michael

Steven

I Listened to this yesterday and didn't have the time to comment then. To get people here to comment, do exactly what you did with me. Comment on theirs and hopefully they will return the favor.

You have a very nice beginning here, but now the hard work starts.

When doing computerized music, you have to be the conductor. In order to get a good playback, you need tons and tons of dynamics and articulations.

Imagine a horn player. Will he play each note from start to finish at the same loudness? Well, that is what the computer will do unless you tell it differently. Hairpins are something that need to be on almost every note. You need to be constantly changing the dynamics just as a real player would do.

I do all of this in my notation program ( to a degree), but the professionals do this in sequencers and look at every single note played and this is why they get such spectacular results.

I opened this in Notepad, so you may have done more then what showed up in there, but this is where you can really make the music come alive.

I know one guy that writes in Finale and say it takes him 10 hours there. He will spend another 50 hours in a sequencer playing with all of the notes. Getting the attacks just right, the vibrato the way he wants, the modulation of each individual note is worked on.

Believe me, it is a long and sometimes tedious process, but the end product is worth it.

So you have all the raw material here...now you just have to work with it.

Be the conductor!

Ron

Thanks all for your replies. Unfortunately I don't know anything about making the music sound as good as possible on the computer. I know about dynamics in Finale etc but I don't know how to work with sequencers and such, so I have to rely on Finale's sounds. I have GPO on my computer but to be honest, I don't really know how to use it and my computer becomes terribly slow when I try to load all the instruments in the Kontakt Player. Is my computer just too old or am I doing something wrong?

I hope ofcourse that the orchestra my father plays in will perform this during one of their rehearsels, but I have to rework some sections before it's ready for performance. Did you think the piece formed a whole or did it feel like all little sections? I'm a bit worried about this because I think I developed some themes, but those themes didn't come back later, so the listener is constantly dealing with new material, without recognizing earlier themes. Did you feel like that or do you think it formes a whole as it is?

Once again, thanks for taking the time to reply!