Journey

This is a continuation of a piece called Eastern Flavor. I thought I was composing a new piece, but it turns out that I was just adding to another one. So I renamed it Journey until I come up with a better name.

It uses EWQLSO Gold XP and EWQLSO RA and GPO

Here it is

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Any comments will be totally ignored and all insults will be appreciated. (Or is the other way around?)


Thanks

Ron

I like the atmospheres you've created here - very cinematic. I think the middle is the strongest part of this piece. You use dynamics very well. I love the part where the horns come sailing in over the raging percussion.

I can hear the eastern influence in this piece but for some reason also conjures up mid western imagery, is Copland one of your influences?

Listening now. I see you also use Symphonic Orchestra Gold Pro XP. I was also thinking of getting RA, the demos sounded awesome.

As stand-alone music it's probably not that great since there isn't really much of a development, however as incidental it should be fine. You may turn out to be a good film music composer. Keep up the good work.

Marsbars

I think that anyone who professes to love classical music has to list Copland as an influence. In a nother piece I actually copied a 2-4 measure theme from him without realizing it until after the piece was completed. I was afraid that people would find the middle section too slow to enjoy, so I am glad that you thought as you did.

Maxx

I have only scrathed the surface of RA. There is some cool sounds in it and I hope to use as many as possible to make it worth the money I paid for it.

I almost posted this in Incidental, but I have a feeling that this one is not yet completed and that there will further movements.

Thanks guys for the listen and the comments.

Ron

Ron,

There are a lot of interesting orchestral textures in this piece. To use a cooking analogy, I find it heavy on the icing and light on the cake - very tasty but not sustaining . I agree with Maxx that it is close to incidental music in its structure and amount of development - which is fine. A piece that is fun to listen to (and this one certainly is that) and not an intellectual workout for the listener is a worthy achievement.

Do you think your style is changing now that you have all these great new sounds to incorporate into your music?

Herb

Herb

It is always good to hear from you.

I always eat the icing first! Isn't that the rule? This was just for practice at first and sort of grew on me and the next thing I knew, it was almost 9 minutes long.

I am now composing completely in sonar. I play every note instead of putting a note on the staff like when I composed in Sibelius. This process has certainly changed my style. I am still getting used to doing it this way, so at this point I can't say that one way is better than the other.

The new sounds gives me a larger palatte that I get to choose from and that makes a difference as well. It is a lot of fun having so many sounds at my beck and call.

Thanks as always for the listen.

Ron

Nice atmosphere, very worldly, tasteful mix of authentic and traditional sounds.
Bit of a quantize issue around 01:08 - 01:20 I think.
Ballance feels wrong, is this the final mix?
I liked the quiet part around 03:00 (SAM True Strike, no?), I think a heavily reverbed glass-harmonica or Celesta would work nicely into it and give it some more dimmenssion.
Brass around 05:20 very *very* dramatic, maybe some more preperation for it? Even a timpani / bassdrum roll or a reverse cymbal to imply that the mood is about to change,
it's just so sudden...
Great reprise in the end.

Overall very nice work, I think to enhance the "journey" feel of it, the sections should be (even) longer, and some live percussions would make a huge difference in the sound.

Good work!
Omri.

Omri

This started out as an exercise and when I copied and pasted a section, I missed by half a beat. Instead of fixing it, I just continued on. Since it was just an exercise, I really didn't care about things being off a little. But then it took on a life of its own and it was too late to go back and try to rework everything, so I did my best to try and hide the mistakes.

This piece is far from over, so no it is not the final mix. The brass at 5.20 does have a timpani roll just before it.

Thanks for the listen and the comments. It got me to thinking.

Ron

Very cool! I am not familiar with Middle Eastern instruments; what is the instrument that plays in the beginning of the piece?

You have used some fascinating timbres and blended several very distinct styles (Middle Eastern, 20th-century American, and East Asian), as well as using your own style of "wrong note consonance," as you call it. Your use of brass instruments is especially interesting. In some respects, it almost sounds Mannheim Steamroller - esque. I really enjoyed this piece.

Please post more!

Trumpetman252

The instrument is called a Tambura and is from India. It is a sample out of EWQLSO RA. I just love the sound of it.

Thanks you for the kind words.

Ron