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Brian Scott Phraner - Composer!
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Orchestra, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles, film, multimedia
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Symphonic Jazz and Progressive Rock
- Is music your main income source?
- Sort Of - Music Related
- Where do you live?
- Brier, Washington
- About Me:
- At the age of 18, I bought a Hagstrom electric bass and started teaching myself to play it. I did this by learning all the bass parts in my Yes album collection. It was difficult for the first 3 months with no amplifier, but I found I could press the head of my bass against the wall of my mother's apartment and get a pretty good tone. It quickly became apparent that playing and writing music was to be my destiny and that I'd better buy an amp quick. I began writing music in my head as soon as I started playing, so I learned to play other instruments that I could write with. I liked acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, drums and vocals. In college I played bass in the Skagit Valley Jazz Ensemble with a couple of members of my first original progrock band called Medusa.
Later I became a studio and live sound engineer while continuing to write music solo or with a close group of collaborators. In the early 1990's I co-founded the progressive rock group Phreeworld. The band released two CD's (Boost the Signal, 1994; Crossing the Sound, 1998) disbanding in 2002 after a 10 year run.
I started writing music for orchestra in 2002 starting with “Symphony No. 1, Vociferous Thesis”, a 40 minute symphony in 4 movements. It was written using a Roland JV1080 and EMU Proteus sound modules. I have since re-orchestrated the entire symphony for full orchestra and recorded it using GPO instrument samples.
Then I wrote “The Universe Suite”, a 30 minute composition for orchestra and synthesizers. "The Universe Suite" was used in the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, WA. from June of 2004 through September of 2006.
I next composed my Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, again using DP with GPO sample orchstra sounds.
In the summer of 2006 I wrote all new orchestral music for the Sci-Fi Museum's Pulsar Lounge when the gallery was updated. It played through the end of 2007.
I was always interested in film scores and it was in the fall of 2004 that I decided to start learning the skills of a film composer. I studied film scoring for two years at the Pacific Northwest Film Score Program in Seattle. I'm working at starting to break into the industry now by working on my first film score for a short called "The Late Sorry". I'll put up the trailer as soon as it's completed.
I'm on the board of the Seattle Composers Alliance, a non-profit group for Seattle composers. Check out the web site
http://www.seattlecomposers.org
http://www.myspace.com/scalliance.
I live in Seattle with my family.
Here is a player so you can play "The Universe Suite". The composition for orchestra and synths, at 30 minutes long, is too long to put into the embedded player...
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Piano part solo'ed out from my first piano concerto
Hey Composers,
I've uploaded into the player on my page a recording of the piano part (played solo) from the first movement of my "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1". The full orchestra version of the same movement is the first song on the player and the solo piano version is the fourth song (simply called solo piano).
I thought some of you would be interested in being able to hear the piano parts on their own and then compare and contrast with the full orchestra version.
I'd be happy to… Continue
I've uploaded into the player on my page a recording of the piano part (played solo) from the first movement of my "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1". The full orchestra version of the same movement is the first song on the player and the solo piano version is the fourth song (simply called solo piano).
I thought some of you would be interested in being able to hear the piano parts on their own and then compare and contrast with the full orchestra version.
I'd be happy to… Continue
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Thanks for the friend request! I'll be sure to stop by and take a listen to your music.
Take care.
Thank you for visiting my page again!
Thank you for you visit and nice comment. I'm listening to your work and I'm glad to be a friend.
Wish you a peaceful day.
Robert
Ahmad
About the Iraqi rhythm it is really strange, when any theory teacher (as me) see the number 10 on the top he will say that's irregular time signature but this is not, it is between 2/4 and 6/8 the first contains two beats each contains 4 semi quavers and 6/8 is the same but each beat is 6 semi quaver, this strange rhythm is also from two beats but each beat is from 5 semi quavers, so funny, you can try it in your music.
Now I'm listening to the Bamboo Curtain, it is so beautiful and I love the thick harmony in the middle.
I'll tell you more about the Oriental rhythms and I'll put now the sheet of my composition Orient with the photos,
Have a nice time
Ahmad
Ahmad
Yes in the Turkish music they use these irregular time signatures such as 5, 7 and 9/8 about the last one it is not the same 9/8 that we use it in the western music the Turkish is irregular but the western is compound, the Turkish is 2+2+2+3, it is so beautiful and so common in the Turkish music, I'm listening now to your Piano Con it is so beautiful, but I don't know what did you mean by you hope that you can play your Piano Con? I think you you write immediately using the software (may be the Finale), I do the same without using any keyboard, and one more question, what do you use in creating your Orchestral sounds, because I'm hearing the strings from the FL studio?
By the way in the Iraqi music we have very strange time signature, it is 10/16 if you have the time to listen to my tracks ( Ninawa, Men Gher Amal and Yal Mashi) you can listen to that strange rhythm, they have a similar one in Turkey,
By the way I saw your video it is fantastic, why you don't put it with the videos so every body can see it?
It is very nice to talk with you,
Talk to you later,
Ahmad
Thank you very much for your very nice comment,
I'm listening now to your lovely music, it is really wonderful; you have very beautiful and new style, I'll keep listening to your lovely tracks, did you notice that we have similar feelings in using the piano parts (sometimes), listen to my music (Love Melody) and (Kan Agmal Yom) and you'll understand what I mean.
Best regards,
Ahmad
Thanks for the comment - Your work reminds me of 'Wim Mertens' - great feel to it!
I wish you continued success in all that you do.
David Beard - UK
Film Music Composer & Sound Design
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