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Now Is The Time
Another Phillip Glass like track. A lot more romantic than Phil, however. This is an improv on a piece I actually composed around 20 years back, but way different. The first 16 bars are what it was based on. The original was performed, believe it or not, by a twenty piece orchestra in Merkin Hall NYC. Bottom line, it was a disaster that cost me many thousands to satisfy my ego. Needless to say, all now unnecessary that I have an iPad!
Many tracks on this one, divided into two sections. The first is Module American D piano and 2 tracks BeatHawk Strings. The second section has the Module piano joined by 2X Cubasis Microsonic acoustic piano, 2x BeatHawk Strings and a wonderful sound design by @Spidericemidas (The Water Margin) from his new LaPlace bank. A marvelous addition that made it happen. Thanks, Spider! And first time using quantizing for 1/8 note triplets. Worked like a charm!
Hey, and @gusgranite asked for this type of stuff. He better listen!😉😎
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That’s a beautiful piece! There’s something very emotional about those patterns of descending notes. Reflective and whimsical but somehow uplifting and optimistic at the same time, coupled with the song title, I guess. A lovely piece of work.
I’m glad the iPad has saved you thousands in the production of this piece this time!
Thank you @Spidericemidas. This piece, as you said, is particularly optimistic, especially since it's in a minor key. The ascending and descending is interesting, too. The initial motif has the hands going in opposite directions, something I rarely do.
I hope more will listen to this one. It's one of the best things I have made to date and your preset was the perfect complement to the mix. Moving on to LaPlace next.
To me this sounded so cinematographic/visual that I kept wondering what kind of images this was intended to be a soundtrack to. I had to remind myself to shut up and listen.
Definitely deserves another bump to the top with a response. I agree it’s one of your best and hopefully will get a lot of listens.
The minor key explains why I sensed something kinda reflective, possibly regretful about its mood, but the way the descending notes are played, and countered by the ascending notes explains why I also get something more positive overall from it. A very interesting effect as I get two opposite emotions drifting back and forth as I listen.
Really nice arrangement and I can see why you originally felt it was worth spending out on to have it performed.
Thx, bro, the improv is just based on the A part of the composed piece. The whole thing was 4 parts.
My collaborator, composer, conductor, friend, Giacomo Franci wrote three variations to it and has since performed it in the US and Europe.
Bumping this back up the list, it’s well-crafted music. Thanks for sharing.
Now, this I like.
Very accomplished piece. Reminds me somehow of Nyman’s main theme for The Piano:
but very definitely its’ own thing.
Thx for the bump @Kewe_Esse! I’m glad it worked for you @svetlovska. Sure, I hear why you thought of The Piano. If you speeded that up it’d be an even better comparison. The piano sure is a remarkable contraption.
@Spidericemidas @JudasZimmerman @Kewe_Esse @Svetlovska I thought you might be interested in this. It’s the version that was performed originally in NYC in 2003. I gave the composer, Giacomo Franci his head to write the orchestration as he wished. A lot different from my conception, for sure. But it’s pretty interesting. That’s Giacomo playing.
This was interesting. Very cool to see a live performance and arrangement based on your work. Nice to see one of your named musical friends in action too.
Takes quite a dramatic and almost psychedelic turn 2/3 in. His version is more aggressive, urgent and technical, but I think your version and your playing produces more emotion and speaks a more comforting message.
@Spidericemidas, Giacomo had to try to realize his potential as a composer in today’s esoterica of modern music. It would have been too hokey to play it straight. So he made it weird and discordant, I frankly dislike it, but he was my friend and I understood what he needed to do. Part of the fiasco, but I did hope it helped him. I can’t believe I spent 10k on it. Lol, it was only supposed to cost 3!
Brilliant piece Mike! I like your sped up, modern version a lot more than Giacomo’s
Thanks @Edward_Alexander. I prefer it, too. Still, it’s fun to see all those serious musicians at work. I can see how composers get off on it.
I didn't hate the drone/discordant elements of the concert version; but it gets very different to be sure, with the elbows and the klonks.. not sure how I would compare the versions.
But I now have a pretty good idea what this is a soundtrack to in my head
Fascinating @LinearLineman. Love your rendition.
Thank you @rogp. Much appreciated.
@JudasZimmerman ….what’s the soundtrack to?
A brilliant artist with a mysterious past joins with an eccentric composer in a quest to complete and perform a musical piece received in a dream. Economic disasters and increasing artistic differences put the enterprise in jeopardy, while the unknown source of the inspiration starts to make itself known, with unforseeable consequences.
What a beautiful piece!
@JudasZimmerman , wow, you're into the mysterious past. I think that was in your From The Movie scenario, too. Cheers to your vivid imagination!
Thank you for li @Jer4. I appreciate it.
This is a beautiful composition. That must have been quite an experience. Why would you think it was a disaster? I would be very proud of it.
Bottom line, it was a disaster that cost me many thousands to satisfy my ego.
Buy once, cry once. It's better to regret something you did, than something you didn't do. The memory is forever!
How the heck did I miss this??
This is fabulous. Romantic, emotive, but with a locomotive rhythm of its own.
Fascinating hearing the orchestral take. Your iPad orchestra is definitely more to my taste!
Thank you for tagging me on this @LinearLineman - I could easily have missed it for good.
@Paulieworld, it was a disaster because the orchestra was under rehearsed with only one rehearsal and I couldn’t even make that due to weather conditions. It was supposed to cost 3k when I started and wound up being 10k. There was a second piece where the pianist was awful (or, again, under rehearsed) and the orchestra similar.
I couldn’t really voice my disappointment because the composer/conductor/producer was (and still is) a very good friend whom I care about. I did give him his head to write what he wanted as variations on my theme, but my small attempts to at least get the statement of the theme a little more harmonious was rebuffed, as “serious “ musicians wouldn’t take it “seriously”. I don’t blame anyone, including myself. It was interesting… and useless to me personally. But it was good for my friend as he has performed it in Europe as well as the states and hasn’t composed a thing since.
@gusgranite, ahhh… glad I pointed it out then. I hope to do more like that and you are always foremost in my mind as a sympathetic ear for that stuff. Glad you liked it.
I would imagine that Maurice Ravel probably felt the same way at the first rehearsal of 'Pavane'. You have had a symphony orchestra perform your music internationally. How many people can say that? I would love to compose for a symphony orchestra, but I would be scared shitless. I salute you for having the balls to do that! He hasn't composed a thing since then, but you keep going like the Energizer Bunny!
Good composition. Cinematic!
I would have been tempted to go big with the orchestration. String orchestra sustains. For that rhythmic accompaniment maybe orchestral wind choirs and orchestral percussion.
@Paulieworld it’s more like someone sampled my stuff and put it in a composition. I didn’t really get to enjoy the creative experience. That was a big part of what was missing. Anyway, it’s totally ok, just discussing it here for fun,
Thanks @Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr i’d be happy to send you the project if you’d like to make an orchestration. Let me know.
That's more of a @McD /Staffpad project. I don't have that app, or really any midi chops at all. I learned orchestration back in the 1980s in the old way, using very large pieces of paper, and have never developed the digital chops for it. It does sound fun though. When I hear @McD 's experiments with Staffpad and Piano Motifs I have been tempted.
@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr … well, let me encourage you. If you’ve done it the hard way already on paper this is nothing. Of course I recommend Cubasis but StaffPad would probably work better for you. And you can always drain @McD ‘s brain.😉😎🙏
Interesting story. Maybe this kind of experience is why there's usually been only one single composer in these monumental orchestral works? It sounds like your pianist did everything to celebrate his own musical ego instead 😉
It's stunning how your updated work sounds much more enjoyable.
Thanks for listening @rs2000. It is quite interesting and I would never do it again.
Indeed, it was ego driven by Giacomo, but that same ego has enabled him to create a large pool of players (NY Chamber Players), in existence for twenty years, which he conducts, produces and fund raises for. For a relatively unknown, impoverished, Italian immigrant to the US, ostensibly a classical pianist, to accomplish such a thing in NYC is quite remarkable. He has his huge ego to thank for that.