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Two new tracks

I have added two new tracks to my music player. These are both orchestral, and written as part of an assignment for my course. The brief related to a computer game. "Trogmystique" is an ambient piece that progresses half way through to a slightly more tense and ominous feel. "Night and Fray" is a no-holds-barred battle scene.

It's been fun creating some big orchestral sounds for a change, and I'm quite relieved to discover that my setup is capable of doing this (only just - I had to tweak some DFD settings and latency buffer sizes!) I feel very happy working with orchestral music now, and I look forward to the continuing process of learning, a highlight of which will be my attendance in October at the Steven Scott Smalley orchestration course in NYC. I am hoping to learn many valuable things there!

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Comment by Mike Torr on August 13, 2008 at 2:50pm: Heh, yes of course - back to the music. I am on the Music For The Media course at the moment. I work in I.T. to pay the bills. I have a very varied musical heritage, consisting of a semi-classical start involving piano, organ, double bass and singing, a long stint playing keyboards in various bands in various styles and finally an interest in electronic music from my teens onward, all of which was in the melting pot before divorce and mid-life crisis sparked the mixture. I'm in mid-explosion. How about you?

Comment by pete whitfield on August 13, 2008 at 2:12pm: You got it Mike! That embed code you copy looks pretty nasty but will put your 'widget' in loads of places on the web - I find myself embedding video and audio in blog posts, forums, myspace, wikis as well as html pages that you construct yourself. Web 2.0 - it's a beautiful thing! Er....shouldn't we be talking about music? Are you on a course somewhere or working freelance?

Comment by Mike Torr on August 13, 2008 at 1:52pm: That's excellent - thanks very much Pete! Am I right in thinking that this will work in some other sites too - basically anywhere that allows HTML in comments?

Comment by pete whitfield on August 13, 2008 at 11:53am: Ha! You've got me sussed Mike! I am indeed sad enough to have a little help tutorial about embedding media in ning writing spaces! In my defence, I'd say I did this video 'cos I run another ning site for a college music department.

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Comment by Mike Torr on August 13, 2008 at 11:48am: Hey thanks Pete, for your constructive comments - and for the advice about embedding the player. I didn't know how to do that. Is it a simple tag, or do I have to copy something fairly long into the text? If you have a link to a help page explaining it I'd be most grateful.

Comment by pete whitfield on August 13, 2008 at 11:07am: Oh - yeah, a bit of cello trem later in the track!

Comment by pete whitfield on August 13, 2008 at 11:06am: Sounding good Mike! You know you can embed your music player in any writing space in here, to save readers nipping back to your profile page, (so here it is if you don't mind!)

Tracks sound really competent to me; for atmospheric stuff with strings have you tried using trem and trill samples? Just gives the texture a bit of 'bubble'.