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SYNTHONY No.1, 1st MOVEMENT/RC275, Beathawk, Thumbjam
A more ambitious project. Not a Symphony, too many rules broken, but a longer orchestral piece of three or four movements. It began as the piece I love You Ludwig, but seems to be growing. I had some technical difficulties and thought I would lose this but it survived. I do this stuff by improvising rather than composing. Once I have an initial track improvised to my satisfaction I build up the arrangement.
In this case I began with the Ravenscroft piano, built the track out of three individual takes and structured the piece from those elements. I added a Beathawk Pizzacato double bass to sections of the midi piano part, then improvised a flute part with Thumbjam's Irish flute (this, I believe caused my recording difficulties. I subsequently downloaded the mid July Thumbjam update, on advice from forum members, which supposedly fixed the freezing bug the earlier version had). I used the TJ midi track to add marimba and analog strings from Microsonic in Cubasis.
I have completed the third movement, posted as I Love You Ludwig, and will do a second movement in a night or two , then join them together and post my first completed Synthony! (I hope).This would not have been possible if not for the iOS platform. I am not a "thinking" composer like @kuhl, who can create the piece beforehand in his imagination and has the notation skills to commit it to paper.I can only do it on the fly and hope for serendipitous accidents, which seem to happen quite often. Obviously perfectionism is not an issue for me. My creations all have a rough aspect. But the fun is what is most important to me. To build a twenty minute piece, arrange and orchestrate it in six all night sessions is an incredible creative rush.
The results are far from perfect, but adequate and very satisfying to me. Then, before the glow has faded it is on to the next thing! One last thing... I have started to use the notation app, Symphony Pro, which works perfectly with Cubasis. It allows for the possibility of creating a complete score from the midi tracks. It would be impossible for me to notate the score to this piece. I lack the traditional skills. But reverse engineering it from the midi data is within my reach. SP makes it doable. Another iOS miracle. Feedback always welcome!
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Nicely done!! Very peaceful, I like it
Perhaps bass can be mixed to have more presence, and flute a little less.
Also, I’ve noticed your soundcloud tracks often last more 15 mn but with less music, here 5 mn. Do you use Cubasis locators for export?
Now we wait for second movement !!!
Thanks so much, @Janosax. I will do a remix. The locators are those two trapezoidal gizmos on the top? I will start to use them.
Yep for gizmos!!
What a lovely piece of music. That fact that it's based upon improvisation and still so unique just shows the command you have of melody and harmony.
I get a nice Latin feel from this like an Argentine Tango or Mexican Seranade.
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Can you transpose it up a minor 3rd. The Marimba gets lost in the mix in that key.
Keep 'em coming. I think this one deserves choreography... From your "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Ballet or M. Levy's Broadway smash "El Mariachi - the Musical".
HUMOR FONT OFF
It's definitely 2nd movement material but keep breaking "rules" and open with it if you like.
Cubasis keeps padding extra minutes of silence on my mixdowns too. Even when I use Mix "between markers". I think it's a bug. If you figure it out let us know the trick.
“serendipitous accidents“ that’s such a good phrase, but not easy for a Norseman to read
If Cubasis do that, it’s possible to use AudioShare for trimming the file.
Awesome stuff. I don’t like the blocky sound starting around 1min..what is it? The main theme and motives are really good, really stuck with me after it had finished.
Well done! And can we have the opus?
Nice work, @LinearLineman ! I too can hear a Latin influence in this.
Look forward to hearing the other movements.
Seems like a mechanical piano sound for me
@LinearLineman
Beautiful piece you wrote there, my brother
Agreed with @Janosax... would love a bit more bass presence, though
@Janosax, I looked for the "right" locator and could not even find it!
@McDtracy and @AlterEgo_UK, yes, I heard the Spanish/ Mexican thing too, after the fact. It starts with the downwardly cascading thirds and then just gets moreso. So unpredictable this improvising. Thanks so much for the positive reinforcements!