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3:32; slow 4/4; thoughtful, enigmatic, meandering; brass, strings, percussion
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This is a thoughtful little piece, which I’d started out aiming to make a little more through-composed than my normal output. However, things didn’t go as planned and so it features a further exploration into my improv-plus-arrangement techniques.
This time, I improvised a piano piece, then quantised and copied to orchestral sounds. Using Garritan Orchestra’s mod-wheel function, I have shaped the individual instruments and also removed some of the harmony within individual parts so that they play as separate lines. I’ve applied quite a bit of reverb to try to make particularly the strings sound convincing. I’ve also stretched some of the notes in the string parts so that they overlap a little, giving the illusion of whole sections playing with slight timing discrepancies (as opposed to having clean breaks between notes, which sound especially unnatural in the strings).
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Composer's Blog
This is a thoughtful little piece, which I’d started out aiming to make a little more through-composed than my normal output. However, things didn’t go as planned and so it features a further exploration into my improv-plus-arrangement techniques.
This time, I improvised a piano piece, then quantised and copied to orchestral sounds. Using Garritan Orchestra’s mod-wheel function, I have shaped the individual instruments and also removed some of the harmony within individual parts so that they play as separate lines. I’ve applied quite a bit of reverb to try to make particularly the strings sound convincing. I’ve also stretched some of the notes in the string parts so that they overlap a little, giving the illusion of whole sections playing with slight timing discrepancies (as opposed to having clean breaks between notes, which sound especially unnatural in the strings).