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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- film, television, web, multimedia, Choir, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Symphonic Orchestral
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- Where do you live?
- London
- About Me:
- I am an accomplished classically trained musician, playing Piano, (orchestral) Double Bass, arranging and composing. I've been very fortunate to have worked with some of the world's great orchestras, conductors, composers and soloists and played magnificent halls and venues.
I have always composed, though very much for the concert hall but have recently started turning my attention to my love of the art of great film scoring. Having also worked in a highly creative industry where visual communication is scrutinized, I am very happy to be able to marry my ever-growing understanding of visual mediums with my music to hopefully create some very thoughtful and complimentary scores.
I guess you could call me a traditionalist in that I actually score notate all my pieces fully for whatever orchestration is required (perhaps down to my classical roots as an orchestral performer). I then manage playback through Native Instruments Kontakt Player with mainly Garritan Personal Orchestra instruments. This is possibly a longer process than using midi input et al, but I find it focuses my output on music that has human performance at its core. As a professional instrumentalist, I've, all-too-many times had to play new pieces that bear all the hallmarks of computer music where the subtle nuances of an instrument haven't always been understood. Don't get me wrong, some of it is still brilliant but for me, nothing can beat human interpretation.
Alas, until I get a cracking film commission with a cracking orchestra, I'll make do with Sibelius [but write as if for the London Symphony Orchestra]. I will be posting music here too but they'll most likely never be finished or by any means, completely polished works. I almost 'rapid prototype' musical ideas - a definite benefit of computers. This enables me to keep my skills sharpened and the ideas flowing - without getting bogged down with particulars. So with many of the pieces that I'll be uploading, they will most likely seem like miniature studies in developing small fragments of musical ideas (for example, an interesting interval produced by a two-note couplet). Rapid-prototyping allows me to hopefully get my point across quickly, then move on to something else. So, that's the important thing: getting my point across... Everything I'm doing always starts with the question of what am I trying to communicate. And it has to communicate something otherwise I'm failing miserably. That said, I really welcome your input, suggestions and comments through the usual means of emailing, messaging and posting comments on my page.
This profile will continue to evolve as I continue to grow so please, watch this space!
Thanks for reading
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- http://www.lesliequarcoopome.co.uk
Leslie Quarcoopome's Blog
A Little Game
Just added A Game of Tag to my music player. I short cue full of mischief and surprises. I like the way it plays with the listener's sense of 'simple time' by seemingly hitting the next bar before the listener is ready - a bit like the game: getting caught out when you are not paying full attention.
As usual, comments welcome.
As usual, comments welcome.
Posted on April 21, 2009 at 5:47pm —
Something a little different
I thought I'd have a go at something a little different this evening. I guess one of the many roles a composer can fill with the help of a good music supervisor is source music: the band playing when the character switches on the car stereo; or the club who's thumping sound system can be felt many doors away; or the Jazz Quartet on stage in some flashy cocktail lounge frequented by equally flashy punters...
I've always shied away from Jazz as a musician growing up because I always felt i… Continue
I've always shied away from Jazz as a musician growing up because I always felt i… Continue
Posted on April 17, 2009 at 7:11pm —
3 New Tracks - 14th April 2009
So I've managed to bounce a couple more tracks down for you all to audition. The first, Bicycle Music goes back to my liking of the sound world of kids/family films. Always invokes memories of sun-drenched careless afternoons playing and bicycle spokes. Bizarre, I know. The next is perhaps a bit sentimental but it's a cue for a fading and aging beauty as she asks herself: Who's The Person In The Mirror? It's not intended to be sad music, perhaps bitter-sweet. Driving Forward… Continue
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 6:30pm —
New Music - 4th April 2009
So I've successfully managed to navigate the upload tool on this site and pleased to announce the availability for your review and comment of no less than seven [film score] fragments.
An Opening is well, very once upon a time but is interrupted with.... who knows? The Great Army is full of the anticipation of something about to happen. Pictures the vast legions of mythic Kings and Lords and epic landscaped. Worlds away from such… Continue
An Opening is well, very once upon a time but is interrupted with.... who knows? The Great Army is full of the anticipation of something about to happen. Pictures the vast legions of mythic Kings and Lords and epic landscaped. Worlds away from such… Continue
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment
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Your gift for music is obvious. I hope one day you write non-film music in a complete self-standing work.
Wishing you the best,
tony h
All I can say is ... sorry! :-)
No, seriously, I am very happy that my words and music have helped you find what you wanted to do.
All the best! Please stay in touch with what is going on in your musical life.
Alain
thanks for your comments, i appreciate a lot !
I thinh that your piece '' The person in the Mirror '' is very great and well mastered, Very great work !
To answer your question, i use East West Symphony, Symphobia ( Project SAM ) VSL for the woodwind, Spectrasonic OMNISPHERE for the ambience sound and a lot of plugin in Logic Pro.
I would like to mastered as well as you the orcherstration.
I'm very please to have you as a friend on this forum !
All the best !
Yves
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