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  • The adventure continues: 5th movement of my Symphony...

    ...and the third one I am posting as a "finished rough".

    http://www.berkus.net/sote/water-5-11-10.m4a

    It is mainly pentatonic, following the tonality of "Old Man River" - the tune on which I built the texture in the intro... and it's a rough sketch, and it is goiung to remain rough for quite a while to come.

    It's from the "Symphony Of The Earth" in 6 movements, mainly in a concertante style. The movements are called Accretion, Fire, Air, Earth, Water, and Life.

    More info on the project: http://www.berkus.net/sote/readmefirst.txt

    enjoy!


  • The combination of harp, flute, and pentatonic is very magical =)  I'll have to keep that in mind as a good orchestration technique.

    Out of curiosity, what reverb setup are you using?

    Cheers,

    Shawn


  • Thanks for listening and commenting, Shawn - yes, Harp and Flutes are a formidable "Water" combo, magical indeed, together with those sort of indeterminate pentatonic meanderings.

    The reverb, for now, is simply an amount of everything sent through an auxillary channel with Logic Studio's Space Designer convolution  reverb inserted - using, provisionally, the "Fine Hall" preset - that's a synthesised impulse response with a 4 seconds+ reverb tail. I used larger send amounts for the players further to the back of the stage. There are absolutely no other effects - not even compression or EQ...

    cheers

    F.


  • Hi feenixx

    Why did you called that music simphony? nothing against your music...but IMO it's far away from simphonyc music....


  • cristiangscheidel,

    People have asked me this question dozens of times.
    Guess what: listening to this thirty or forty years ago, I would have asked the same thing. I was writing songs and composing classical music at the time.
    My reply: it definitely is not a classical type Symphony. But as far as I see it, the concept of what "is" a Symphony has changed, starting early in the 20th century. Many composers call their pieces "Symphony" to indicate scale and scope, and seriousness of intent, rather than "symphonic sound" and "sonata form".
    This piece is a binding together and culmination of much of what has occupied my mind and what I have been working on for decades. I composed the oldest motif I am using here (not in this movement, though) almost 25 years ago.

    I could have, perhaps, called it "concerto for chamber ensemble and string orchestra", and people would have asked "Where are the Cadenzas?"
    Or what about "soundscape with symphonic landmarks"?

    Ah, well… I am calling it "The Symphony Of The Earth". It's a cool title, and it is an indication of my approach to the project. There are at least 8 months work left on it, and I can promise you, the whole piece will come across as a lot more "symphonic" than this small section of it now, and you'll be able to see a clear structure - a sort of "Sonata Logic". But it will never be a "classical" Symphony… I reckon I could compose one of those in about 2 to 4 weeks, anyway...

    hey, and thanks for listening!


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