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Garritan of EastWest?
Replied Jul 9
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- film, television, web, multimedia, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Contemporary Ensembles, Other
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not at all.
- Where do you live?
- Northern Virginia
- About Me:
- For over 30 years, I have been composing, performing and recording original music. My orchestral and chamber works have had numerous live performances, and my original scores can be heard in feature-length films, documentaries, industrial videos, and other creative projects.
With many and varied influences from both classical and popular music, my sound at times seems equal parts minimalist, impressionist, and neo-romantic. I describe my style as "Intuitive, loose tonal." I like setting up new systems and rules for a new work almost as much as I like bending and breaking them. I believe that no matter how beautiful the construction and theory behind a piece, the ear should always be the final arbitrator of what remains in a finished musical work.
- Website:
- http://www.allhands.com
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Hi Jamie
If the ear says it's right - it's right. Where did I see that?
Always in piano roll, listening,practicing, to write a nuanced piece like Kowalski's ORIGINAL Equilibrium. i do not ever expect anyone to perform my music, so I have stopped u…
In spite of training?
Notation just barely gives instructions to people, who tend to be reliable to the degree you pay them to be; and still require being told about a lot more than what's on the page.
There is no one who can achieve in a live per…
As someone else said (I think), it very much depends on your creative process. If PRV makes you "write things that otherwise never would have occurred to you", then that's a very specific process you got there, one based on the writing device. And P…
Going to go against the grain on this one.
Depending on what the director's vision is, this can be an absolutely fantastic way to work. It requires a good relationship between the two of you, and a lot of trust. It also requires good discussion bet…
Another point to consider about these two libraries is what your compositional process and needs are. If you are a meticulous editor, and want to have absolute control over every note and articulation, I'd give a very strong nod to Garritan. As one…
Hi Jamie,
I'm at work at the moment but I'll try and listen to Equilibrium when I get home tonight.
I do feel that PRV can stop me playing safe. It seems to make me focus on the horizontal considerations more than the vertical considerations. Ther…
Thanks Ray,
I'm not familiar with what the key editor is. Is it Steinberg's term for piano-roll view?
Hi James,
Thanks for the reply.
I enjoyed your example. Very nice writing. Do you find that using PRV can break you out of old lines of thinking, or is it just a convenience? I'm interested in talking more about processes and such, if you'd like t…
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Thanks for the heads up on my little jazzy/klezmer piece.
You are one of the few people who manage to get great music out of GPO but how much better it would sound performed by the "Real McCoy".
Ray
Really great, original work. I Particularly like The Cornell Boxes, but then the more I listen to the other tracks, I think I particularly like all of 'em!
JRB
Welcome to this forum, and thanks for posting your music here. I'm sure I've heard some of it before in another forum. Glad to have you on board and please join in the discussion and meet a few new people here.
Ray