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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Choir
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Dramatic, romantic, epic orchestral film music
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- Where do you live?
- Kansas City, MO
- About Me:
- I'm interested in scoring for game and film music, and other multimedia type stuff. I'm in the works of setting up a project studio in my house.
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Paul's Theme
Check out my latest composition, "Paul's Theme." Composed in Finale and Seqenced and mixed in Sonar. Libraries used: East West Silver, Edirol.
Please leave comments. Any ideas on how to get the sustained trumpets and strings to sound less "electronic"?
Thanks!
Jon
Posted on January 1, 2009 at 5:37pm —
Ave Maria
Check out my newest composition, my rendition of Ave Maria. It was commissioned by my good friend Mario Pearson, Director of Music at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Missouri. His schola cantorum is singing it in this recording.
Posted on September 26, 2008 at 1:26pm — 1 Comment
Composition and Arrangements
Just added a few new songs.
The first one, "Sing Praise to the Lord," is an original comp for organ, brass, timpani, and choir.
The second one, "Savior of the Nations, Come," is and old hymn that I arranged for organ, brass, choir, timpani, violin, clarinet, and recorder.
The third one, "A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing," uses the very popular hymn tune: Lasst uns erfreuen. This was arranged for organ, choir, brass, timpani, and crash cymbals.
All of these pieces were performed and rec… Continue
Posted on July 26, 2008 at 9:13pm —
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Folks,
I'd appreciate some feedback on the piece "Classical Fury" I just uploaded. I'm especially interested in comments/suggestions on the mix and how to get it sounding more real.
I composed in Finale, mixed in Sonar. I used EWQL Silver and Edirol.
Thanks for your feedback!
Posted on October 9, 2007 at 10:55pm —
Need advice!
Hey Folks,
Can anyone tell what is causing the annoying "ping" sound in the middle of my comp "Adagio for Strings?" I tried re-recording, cutting out that part of the wave, blocking out the high frequencies, nothing worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. :)
Posted on August 14, 2007 at 10:19pm — 3 Comments
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 6:09pm on September 29, 2008,
Troy said… - Jonathan, excellent work here. When I was a kid and CD players became one of the hippest wonders of the world, I saved up for a mini-boom box (yes, back when they were called that!), and one of the first CDs I got was a collection of Bach pieces. Your work reminds me a lot of the great classical composers. And gosh ... the choral pieces -- sort of makes me want to become a church goer again! The arrangement of Lasst uns erfreuen and Ave Maria -- amazing! Keep up the good work!!
- At 2:14pm on September 26, 2008,
Per-Erik Rosqvist said… - Attached Salvador Dali's hypercube-crucifixion.
- At 2:13pm on September 26, 2008,
Per-Erik Rosqvist said…
Listening to your Ave Maria. Not being an expert in choral and religious music (Händel and Bach's oratoritums being the only of that sort I've listened to many times), but this really feels epic and give me a relaxed feeling at the same time. 10/10 points in my view :)
- At 2:56am on October 18, 2007,
Mike Torr said… - Hi Jonathan, I'm studying on the Music For The Media course. I'm a Sibelius user but I user Sonar and I've just bought a bunch of EWQL products (I bought their Composer Bundle with XP Gold Pro, Choirs, the piano and RA). I don't yet have the hardware to run them, though! I currently use Garritan Personal Orchestra, which is very good but obviously not in the same league.
Love the sound of your work! I'm not sure about that "ping" in the Adagio - I think it sounds like a triangle hit with reverb on it, personally.
- At 2:12pm on August 15, 2007,
Stephen Doheny said…
- HI Jonathan,
Yes it would be safe to say that no matter what software you get you will do the same amount of mixing, however on Platinum the mic positions save you time. Choirs is awesome, but you will have two interfaces to work with, plus the sequencer. Choirs module, wordbuilder module and your sequencer.
you will be totally thrilled!!
All the best
Stephen
- At 5:37pm on August 13, 2007,
- Hey Mr Jonathan,
I have Gold XP and Platinum XP. The mic positions on Platinum are fantastic plus you get 24Bit versus 16Bit. I also use Choirs, Peter Sidlecheks Complete Orchestra, and MOTU Symphonic Orchestra. Mainly I use EWQL products. The EWQL prices have really dropped over the year! Cant wait to hear more of your work. Thanks for joining my network too!
Stephen
- At 9:10pm on August 11, 2007,
- Jonathan!
Hey buddy I found you at EWQL forum. You did a great job on the Scherzo my friend!!!
All the best and I hope to hear more from you. I could only hope you upgrade to EWQL Gold XP or Platinum to really take advantage of what they have to offer over Silver!! Trust me its worth the investment!
Stephen
- At 9:09am on August 10, 2007,
Chris Merritt said… - Hi Jonathan, welcome to the Forum! What did you use to create "Track 02?"
- At 8:55am on August 10, 2007,
Jonathan Davis said…
- Antonin, thank you for the kind words!
- At 1:33am on August 10, 2007,
Antonin Charvat said… - Great, funny music! Thumb up!
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