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London, Warsaw, Prague, Moscow, Sofia and now Bratislava; recording strings in studio 1 at Slovak Radio is my latest experience of string sessions around the world!
This one was the toughest test yet for an orchestra; a rhythmically and harmonic...
I don't see where noteflight claims to play notes expressively. It aims to communicate the language of notation. Are you saying notation is a communication tool that fails miserably? Please clarify your point. On what level does it fail as a means...
I don't get the point you are making Ray? Is notation of no significance in communicating information? Is a new online version of notation software of no significance? Is the opportunity to embed one of the main communication tools of music in a d...
I hope one day I'll be able to eat these words, but (as Chris says) a DAW is for making your sampled music sound right, a notation programme make it look right! I'm sure sometime soon the 2 will be properly integrated.
I use Logic for quick and di...
( Ronnie asks )
>>What has you so vehemently questioning this about him, Phil? I'm not attacking you, by the way, I'm just really interested, as I've never heard anyone speak of Zimmer in this context?
No doubt Zimmer does the "leg "work : getting the gigs, massaging the clients, other such essentials if there is to BE a gig at all.
...it's the actual heavy lifting ( conceiving and writing the stuff, orchestrating and /or programming, etc )
tha...
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
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- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- whatever I'm working on
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- Where do you live?
- Manchester UK
- About Me:
- I'm a string arranger and orchestrator, occasionally dabbling in composition for library.
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- http://www.realstrings.com
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I'm a string arranger and orchestrator. Realstrings.com And this is what I do - realstring recordings.
And score prep for composers. Pass on something good, by Jim Copperthwaite.
And score prep for composers. Pass on something good, by Jim Copperthwaite.
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Strings in Bratislava
London, Warsaw, Prague, Moscow, Sofia and now Bratislava; recording strings in studio 1 at Slovak Radio is my latest experience of string sessions around the world!
This one was the toughest test yet for an orchestra; a rhythmica… Continue
This one was the toughest test yet for an orchestra; a rhythmica… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2009 at 2:16am —
String arranging
I'm delivering a guest lecture on string arranging in a couple of weeks, so I prepared an introductory video, focusing on an approach to arranging string pads.
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Posted on February 6, 2009 at 4:38am — 7 Comments
YouTube annotations - an update
Annotations on YouTube videos have been in beta for a while, but it looks like they are official now and one new feature is that when the video is embedded outside of YouTube, the annotations now play properly. This is a great tool for musical analysis, and particularly for students to demonstrate their own evaluation of their work, directly linked to the track, Pure text is so dissatisfying for musical commentary - but so sweet when connected directly to the music! Soundcloud allows you to do t… Continue
Posted on October 31, 2008 at 3:30am —
Soundcloud
Soundcloud.com is a cool new web service for anyone dealing with audio. You really have to sign up and play around with it to get a feel for what it is! As well as being able to upload large audio files and share them, you can attach comments to the wave form. Hopefully it will embed here, if not, try looking at it on the soundcloud website.
Roll your cursor over the little avatars under the waveform… Continue
Roll your cursor over the little avatars under the waveform… Continue
Posted on October 30, 2008 at 4:30am — 3 Comments
a modes overview
I've dabbled with interactive web tools for music language - mostly aural but a bit of theory too. Here, I've tried to present a reference for various modes, bringing together the names, spelling and sound. If you click the mode names randomly you get either a complete mess or a contemporary composition!
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Posted on October 29, 2008 at 1:09pm — 1 Comment
Comment Wall (21 comments)
- At 12:11am on September 12, 2009,
Edward Schaffer said…
- Enjoyed your C/F# video!
C and F# in and of themselves are fun to play with . Tritones are sinus clearers to the uninitiated. But folks like Scriabin, Ives, Stravinsky and others had fun with such a combination
- At 6:24am on June 19, 2009,
John Banting said… - Hey Pete, Thanks for adding. Wow, what a mine of information you are - I can't believe that I haven't come accross your page before now. Really enjoying your work and would love to pick your brains occasionaly too, as I'm new to orchestral arranging - Excelent.
- At 3:34pm on April 11, 2009,
Leslie Quarcoopome said… - Hi Pete, many thanks for that add. As a double bass player, I've always loved the sound of string instruments and the vast variations in nuances and colours they can create - albeit Tchaikovsky to Mahler, Mozart to Debussy, Brahms to Stravinsky.
I have really enjoyed listening to your tracks and often cannot tell whether they're real strings or software instruments. I want to upload some of my more string orientated pieces but haven't been too pleased with any string sample packs I've come across yet (except Vienna Symphonic Library - which I'll get sometime when I've 8 grand spare!! haha)
Anyway, keep those great string sounds coming.
Leslie
- At 3:58pm on April 8, 2009,
Gatut Suryo said… - Hi Pete, thanx.
I am a music tutor (Violin & Viola) at BIS Jakarta. Please listen to the one of my composition on my page, this web, tell you about pentatonic of Java, Nusantara. Lovely. It's, 'SEMANGGI SUROBOYO' one of the real story that I have composed for my orchestra style. And it will be played, in concert, by NUSANTARA CHAMBER CAMPURKESTRA on august this year in Jakarta. And it's the first time for me, as a Music Director and Conductor. Feel free to inform me or give some sugessions or contact me. I have been learning & interesting about ethnic music in my country. Thanx, Pete for your information about Ahmad.
- At 8:43pm on April 7, 2009,
ahmadjawadi said… - Hi Pete,
Thank you very much, me too I've to tell you that I liked your playing so much and I like your jazz playing on the violin,
Yes I have some very simple setup studio at home, I record my violin at home and sometimes I make several tracks to be big orchestra and sometimes I make tracks for the cello with my violin, record the cello part and shift it an octave down,
You can try to play the Oriental style, I can send you the violin part for one of my compositions for the violin and piano, you can listen to it
Cousin's Dance.mp3
Please let me know if you like it to send you the score after adding some oriental ornaments,
Have a nice time
Ahmad
- At 6:25pm on April 6, 2009,
ahmadjawadi said…
- Hello Pete,
I found your site on the youtube.com and really I like your videos there,
Yours,
Ahmad
- At 5:45am on March 15, 2009,
Nigel Watson said… - Hi Pete...well, first it was touring, with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Mustaphas_3
then I fell in love ;-)!! And moved to Berlin. Actually several members of the band found german wives/sweethearts, which led ultimately to the band's dissolution as we were all too far apart geographically. I found a niche in the media business and for the last 15 years have been doing the music for RTL daily "soaps", among other projects. I have quite a few colleagues in the fringes of the musical & theatre world. The Rocky Horror show is still a cult here!
cheers
Nigel
- At 12:12pm on February 25, 2009,
Doug Lauber said… - Pete, I'm glad I found your excellent page. I'm a beginner/orchestrator, so I'm the OTHER end of the spectrum, with a lot to learn.
- At 12:53pm on November 29, 2008,
Fernando Vazquez said… - Pete
Amazing works!....The arranging work is beautifully created, arranged and mastered. I am working on a piano concerto and I would love one day your input...many thanks
- At 9:21am on September 4, 2008,
Marius Amado-Alves said… - Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to come up with a way to present the topic that's appropriate for a forum (and not a monologal blog-like entry)
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