Chris Alpiar's Blog (20)

Hey everyone!

I am about to release my new website at http://www.chrisalpiar.com

Its new for me as my main website until now has been a total focus on me as a composer for media music and I didnt want to mingle my Jazz career (mostly as the stigma of saxophone in media music is one that I want to shake as a writer) so as I am re-emerging as a Jazz solo artist I am finding the need to have someplace for people in the Jazz…

Previously posted in the AudioBro forums (makers of LASS). This is mostly intended as a helpful view for other composers installing LASS 2 into their setup, but might be useful for others as well:

So it was a pain getting it setup and template worked out. Lots of stuff that isnt made obvious in the documentation that really hung me up. But I have made breakthroughs on Monday and got rolling so I thought I would share my working setup. Previously I have used VSL as my string go…

Hey folks!

I am in a workshop group trying to get in as panelists for next years SXSW conference in Austin. Sooooo, if you don't mind, please clicky clicky and vote for us on the SXSW PanelPicker!

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/13958

It is a quick and free registration you have to do on the SXSW site to vote (enter name and email and password is it) and it also lets…

Just been messing around with this new lib for me, trying to get under my hat the VERY advanced and complex system they have for keyswitch triggering. Its miles past any lib I have seen out there in terms of what it can do for you. Anyway this is a REAL quick unmixed output. I did spend time working on keyswitch editing but thats about it, otherwise all audio is coming through one stereo channel, with one reverb and thats it. Ill be working on this and reposting as time goes on the next few…

Yea, I understand it's a lot of legal jargon and our entire industry has been crafted over the last century to be completely confusing and to obfuscate paths to enlightenment for the layman, usually the composers, songwriters and musicians who slave away at this art and craft. But try. REALLY try hard to understand this stuff. Understanding the DMCA is the very first step to understanding what this new world is all about and understanding how you may or may not make a living from your music…

http://composersforum.ning.com/video/the-last-trick

Just finished this film, awaiting on the final ok but this is after many changes and rewrites so pretty sure I am giving the director exactly what he very specifically asked for ;-) Was great fun! I am playing some solo tenor sax and I also wrote a jazz quintet piece "Carmela's Theme" as source music and closing credits. Its me on soprano and…

I sent this to the FMPRO list, but it is really a great speech that really hits directly to the key issues of our industry at this juncture in time. I hope you all read this and respond. Enjoy!

Paul McGuinness Keynote Speech January 28 at Midem, Cannes

Posted February 1, 2008 — in…

Hahah ok anyone who knows me knows my fierce opposition to loop based writing. Of course I am against it not for repition but because most of the time the loops are pre fabricated and written by someone else for a library and then most people use them as is and then consider themself a composer of equal worth to Stravinsky ouchers. Anyhow here is "some beats" I am playing with to be rapped over. I however played all the notes in each of the loops, they arent from fruity loops or garage band…

I was digging through old recordings and I found this recording I did engineered by Jay Militscher at Right Track in NYC in 95 with my quartet and I wanted to share it with you. The song is "Trane's Pain" and its 22 mins in its entirety so I made a short montage of nice moments within it, I hope you enjoy it. The band is me on tenor sax, Pete Rende on piano, Matt Pavolka on bass and Bob Meyer on drums. It wasnt our best recording of this song but some aspects I like lots :)…