And Then the Adventure Begins

Judging by the recording alone (since we have no score), this piece seems to be a John Williams-like movie soundtrack, best fitting for an adventurous film in the model of the Indiana Jones saga (hence its title - you were quite successful creating the "adventure" feeling). Very colorful and varied orchestration (brought to the fore by the live recording - congrats on having it!). A bit short on ideas and development to work as a stand-alone concert piece, though - you could use this as a first movement for a Suite narrating the "adventure" that just "begins here". Thanks for sharing!

Hi there Robin. I have to say I really enjoyed this, the quality of the recording really brings the orchestra and your composition to life. Details like the individual strikes of the timpani rolls were so satisfying to hear, for me anyway.

I would echo Austenite's film music/John Williams impressions - just perfect for that - especially at the 2 minute mark when I felt an emotional E.T.-esque theme was just about to magnificently unveil itself, only to go back to the adventure again!

Because of its relatively short length combined with its variety, it feels like this would be an ideal showpiece to demonstrate to people your compositional skill, because it has a little bit of everything.

Genius- It sounds exactly like a big adventure!

Excellent, as it is, very good, but when you're not in a movie project I recommend you should try to sound less cinematic and go beyond, I know your style as cinematic is very good, just someday you will need something else, go beyond you'll find very good things, you can always come back to write something like this anytime you want.

Thanks for share.

Thanks for the kind words and comments! I really appreciate that.

I'm mainly coming from film music, writing concert works from time to time but most of the time. This piece was by no means inteded to be a "concert" piece. Actually, it only exists because I had half an hour session time left in a scoring session and thought that recording a fun piece might be a better choice than just sending the musicians home. So basically, this piece is a little fun piece that I wrote to also add something new to my musical portfolio that hasn't been covered by my other demos too much yet.

Therfore, I totally agree that it is a bit jumpy and lacks a development to work as a standalone but as I'm mainly targeting potential customers or film music enthusiasts with this demo, I just wanted it to be a little "joyful firework" instead of serious art

My personal goal on this was to have a piece that is fun composing, playing and listening to and I can say that at least on writing it, I had great fun.

Robin

This adventure demo has the echo effect of what a film track of this nature should be. It has a strong evocative theme(s), which are well connected to each other and then transitioned to and fro. It has strong emotions that would attack many listeners to it. And, the orchestrations of this demo are done nicely. It does, I do concur with what has been said before that it does remind me of J. Williams "Indiana Jones" themes, but no avail your themes are not his and are original and bare no mirror image to his works. It just the sounds that we hear from each other that create the similarities and differences. This is what makes music composition very competitive! Moving forward....

Having you ever though about using a score editor and post a score on here?

Thanks Aniolel! I really appreciate that. As this is a real orchestra recording, of course a score sheet exists to that, however due to licensing issues I can not make this available here. However, I have made a few scores available over at: http://www.robin-hof...s/score-sheets/ together with the recordings.

Robin

I am too interesting in becoming a film composer. Ah, so you have sold it. That is awesome. What score editor do you use to create your scores?