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June 2008 Blog Posts (4)

Reorganized my music player list and added a couple of new tracks

I just reorganized my music player list on my profile and added a couple of new tracks: "The Autumn Mist" & "A Spring Rain."
My goal is to eventually turn this into a demo reel with about 10 tracks that I can put onto CDs.

As always, comments are welcome! A Spring Rain was especially challenging in the orchestration. I spent a lot of time on it and I'm not sure if I quite got it right yet.

Added by Leon Portelance on June 21, 2008 at 3:22pm — No Comments

Muxtape

I'm a bit of a web tools junkie and I came across Muxtape last week. You have to be old enough to remember cassettes to really get how cool this is! It's mixtapes for the digital age.

There's not much advice or guidance on the site about copyright but I couldn't help feeling uncomfortable as I uploaded mp3s that for years I've known I should not share online! Maybe I'll get some nasty letters from copyright holders.

You could use muxtape as… Continue

Added by pete whitfield on June 11, 2008 at 12:56am — No Comments

Would winds work here?

Well this really is a bold post because (like most people I suspect) I still really have no idea how to use the woodwind section.

I would say that they really are the least liked and least understood section of the orchestra for many modern composers. I also notice that they are often the first section to be omitted in many of the robust, modern action scores. Even Danny Elfman who always seemed to love them in his early works (like The Nightmare Before Christmas) has abandoned them… Continue

Added by James Semple on June 5, 2008 at 9:22am — 4 Comments

String samples

Back in 2000 (ish) I had a go at my first website - I'm finally getting round to a proper update, making the most of web 2.0 at the moment. One of the things I wanted to put on the site was some copyright free 'pads'; 8 and 16 bar chord sequences with a bit of arrangement, for free usage by anyone. A kind of 'lost leader'.

I know, over the years, some of these have ended up on writers' works. I've come on a lot since then but the examples are still a pleasing quality - maybe I'll get… Continue

Added by pete whitfield on June 1, 2008 at 1:00am — 1 Comment