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"A Chance Encounter"
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"A Chance Encounter"
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Take Flight
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Aloha Anne, Thank you for listening and leaving a comment. I have limited resources and cannot afford high end software and samples to present my music. Hence the result is very MIDI sounding. This piece was written by ear as all of my music and i...
I had a listen Donny. It's lively and moves along. I'm not a producer but I think perhaps some work is needed with the quality and balance of the instruments. I'm not quite sure of the mood that you are attempting to set here with this. What inspi...
This is the sort of composition I like. Involving and complex. Chord extensions appearing and dissapearing. There is a transient dreamy quality about it.
Technically i do not like the hard left and right panning ( especially on cans) it makes the ...
I sometimes use more than one melody line intertwined to create harmony for a specific mood or feel to my music. I know that it sounds helter skelter to some but take a listen and tell me what you think.
http://donnypike.org/320kbsMP3s/2009/TakeF...
Thanks dankk , I don't want to cause any problems for anyone else submitting their work for discussion. If anyone else thinks that I am crowding this forum please let me know and if it is what you want I will stop uploading my music. And if it is ...
and yet another song...
how wonderful.
Comments welcome, What genre would you call it?
Thanks a lot Kristofer I will get to listening.
Actual "painting" with a brush and a canvas via a computer program is not something that I have heard of but there are programs out there they dynamically respond to music.
Any of Bach's, but if you know me Donny, you could have anticipated that answer. I could list some of my favorites, like for three harpsichords, or any of them for two harpsichords (they're after Vivaldi, mostly), but for what I here you doing, I'...
Painting with music. Have they designed a program that paints using music to apply colors to a canvas?
Kristofer, could you suggest some good Baroque concertos to listen to so that I might try to put one together in the correct way?
Thanks for the information Donny. Good luck.
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- film, television, web, multimedia, Orchestra, Songs, Other
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Popular orchestration
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- Where do you live?
- In a hut in the jungle
- About Me:
- I am an ex entertainer songwriter now composer. I write for just about all genres for about eight years now. Much of my music is cinematic in nature. I write by ear and a lifetime of experience in music. It has been the family business for a long time. I think my music has something unique to offer and I feel it is my purpose to write.
- Website:
- http://DonnyPike.Tripod.com
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Comment Wall (13 comments)
- At 3:02pm on October 1, 2009,
Ken Abbott said… - This song has great sound also-----Ken
- At 2:41pm on September 20, 2009,
Caroline Moore said… - great to meet you! I am enjoying your compositions....Ice has a haunting and wonderful melody....ooooo I love Melodic music! and counterpoint!!
Thanks for dropping by and leaving a kind comment!
have a beautiful and creative night.
- At 9:05pm on September 9, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said… - Well, thanks for acknowledging the effort anyway Donny. I the strings aren't expressive, but little on a synthesizer is, unless you can play the music and still find a free hand for that modulation wheel that I never touch. It is a little ironic that, being a harpsichord player, I favor overbearing strings and thin harpsichord textures where they occur together. The harpsichord has a magical quality: it never sounds better when amplified above its natural, real volume, and most often worse.
- At 12:07am on September 8, 2009,
John Elliott said… - Hi, Donny!
Sorry for the late reply back to your Hello, but I've been preoccupied. Glad to see you here!
- At 2:23pm on September 7, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- At first glance, I'd say very playable. Staves two and three will need to be done separately on keyboard synth, then a go at staves 1, 4, and 5 on harpsichord, then mix audio and see what happens. This is always a challenge for me, because I have to play with headphones on, set very low, to monitor the other "players", which tends to throw me off.
- At 11:49am on September 7, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- Let's try "It Hurts To See You Go : Now I Have To Buy a Microwave". I'll have to use synth strings, but it sounds like it can be successfully arranged for harpsichord. If necessary, I can print the parts from midi using Notation Player (its free and so simple, even I can use it).
- At 5:38pm on September 6, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- Hi Donny,
Do you have any sheet music for keyboard (harpsichord), under six octaves? I'll take a whack at it.
- At 10:22pm on August 29, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- Love the music, and your "Scottish" piece, soundfonts or not, the writing is rustic and true. I especially enjoyed Waltzing in Neverland. I can relate to wireless and living in a hut in the remote jungle, because I too have access only to wireless service and live in a slightly more remote and savage place - the locals here call it "Indiana" .. I think it means "too much corn" in their native tongue, but not sure on that.
- At 8:48am on August 27, 2009,
Sergiy Byelousov said… - Thank you Donny. I appreciate for your words. Concerning your work I think that sound quality is not a main part of music composition and you have proved this by your works, because the creature of music always begins from notes in classical styles.
- At 1:03am on August 27, 2009,
Sergiy Byelousov said…
- Hello Donny. Nice to meet with a master of composition. Very interesting polyphonic style in Ice. Really good works and done on a very professional level.
Some questions in Waltzing in Never Land in a piano part in the middle of the composition.;) I admire your Adventures, perfect approach and all things on their places. Thank you for sharing your music. Your friend Sergiy.
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