The fact almost nobody here cares about this post is really disturbing.  Here is a great composer and artist talking about how he survived nearly dying, and doing the most fabulous music as a result ---  and nobody here except me and Macker gives a damn. 

Guy -  I love your music, and you are a fabulous artist.  You have really original ideas and tremendous mastery of technique. You can do anything  in music.  My best wishes to you and all of your work.          

Guy, I'm glad to hear you're OK!  That is a harrowing experience.  My dad had valve replacement and it completely restored him, so it is a miracle of science as you mentioned.  Did you present it to the doctor and did she like it? (She'd better, especially since it's all VSL!) 

This piece is fabulous- the way you use the pulse rhythm in the low threatening bass drum near the beginning, then the questioning, anxious repeated notes in the clarinet, then finally the triumphant tutti at the end. It is powerful and complex with masterful handling of the orchestration and the textures.  You've done what great artists (and scientists) can do - turn something bad into something good!  Congratulations! 

Thanks, Macker.  I don't know about the library material - the only library music I've done has been for a company that had very specific needs that I happened to have some music for but most of mine doesn't fit in at all.     

Tom, thank you.  It's an honor to have you as a "follower" though you are a horn player, so naturally I am a bit nervous.   

thank you asaad I appreciate your listening!  

Philippe, that sounds excellent - I hope you can put these out in a generally accessible form. Barry Gray is a great composer.  Your performance does a beautiful job with his vivid orchestrations. 

Jos, I finally heard this - that's a charming composition and sounds great -  it has a lot of quirky character!   

Jos thanks a lot, I am a fan of your music so that is great to hear. I am just trying to put things on various available venues and that is one I hadn't known about before.  They advise people to get followers - ha-ha! I think I may have one.   Anyway I'm adding some more stuff later.

Oh, yes you can download those !  Thanks.

I heard about that and was upset to learn about it - he was a kind and supportive person and a great composer. I particularly remember his Halloween themed tone poem Once Upon a Midnight Dreary that was fantastic and should be played live - he created some really good melodies and orchestration.

Thanks Cyril I appreciate it!  

Dietz, thanks a lot, your work is very inspiring and I've really appreciated all the tips and ideas over the years from your great expertise!  

thanks Paolo, I've really enjoyed your music also!

I haven't been on the Forum much but thought I might mention this page of my compositions which - oddly enough - are all VSL!  I have been putting music on other venues but only recently started with Bandcamp, so if anybody wants to hear some VI/MIR  things here are a few -  

Kersten

This is very interesting to hear about MIR 3D - Mir is already one of the best things for mixing/reverb ever.

Really interesting sound in this, and the harmony results in a unique quality.  I am exploring the Spanish 8 tone scale which I originally thought I invented.  I was wrong.   

OK, that makes sense - you previously seemed to be justifying that appalling MIDI generator but I see you were not.  Sorry if I went off - I think I transferred my shock at that huckster to you.  That guy actually reminds me a little of a carnival barker.  

edit - I shouldn't be so obnoxious but these statements set me off.

 "fake orchestras and AI clichè can be succesful vs. original mastercraft and innovation." - fatis 

"If the average and rewarding audience today asks for basic emotions made of timbral hype and rhythmic excitement, "the art" is finding moving and exciting combinations of colours and patterns, whatever the source, in the comfort zone of clichè common language everybody understand... and this is not trivial. It's an art itself." - fatis

-  In other words, auto-generated musical cliches are just as good as individual musical artistry if someone likes auto-generated cliches.    Like a producer or audience who demand the cliches.  So go ahead, line up and supply the cliches. Stop being a stuck-up "artiste" and just do what the audiences and the producers want.    

Thanks - certainly not a big problem as I've been able to write names normally in VE.    

thank you Dietz, I have been using the conductor's position slightly to dry, and MIRacle or my Lexicon hardware, so I am going to try that combination.  

Not absurdity, but a great project and so imaginative and wide-ranging. 

I have to note that not only are the clarinet and accordion so well played, but the VSL instruments beautifully incorporated and expertly programmed.