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This is the first movement of a planned concerto. I hope to complete all five movements in the next few years. I'd like to thank MidiOrleans (Scott Hill) for originally agreeing to work on this concerto with me, to help me arrange the MIDI files - and even tho that collaboration never happened, I wouldn't have started this project without his assurance of help. I'd also like to thank davisamerica (Terry Pearson) for requesting that I add keyboards to a collaboration of his - and even tho I couldn't think of anything good to add to his track and therefore abandoned the collab, it got me to reopen a few older Logic files and rejuvenated this particular project. Silver linings.
I began working on this piece by listening to Keith Emerson's brilliant piano work on Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression. You may hear influences. I was unable to come even close to that hipness, and ended up steering closer to Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, which still works for me. I had been approached some time ago to write a contemporary classical concerto with progressive rock influences. I hope to have more progressive rock stylings in the coming movements, altho I suspect it will all end up closer to this. I think I'll listen to Charles Ives, too, for the next weeks.
Please consider:
1) Do you think it needs percussion? (I really dislike adding percussion and almost always leave drum lines to drummers when arranging for stage or studio.)
2) If you would like to add an orchestral/progressive percussion track to this, please let me know. Much of the piece was played in without afixing it to a specific internal clock, so you'll have to play it on the fly, I imagine.
Let me know what you think. The track uses mainstream Jam Pack and standard string patches, both becuz I wanted to be able to collab easily on it and exchange Logic files (which I never ended up doing) and also becuz I had yet another hard drive crash and lost all my MOTU and non-Apple sounds from my sound library. I don't have the energy to reinstall them. This is supposed to be demo, anyway, so I am glad it sounds as realistic as it does. It's slow going, but a nice project to fool around with in the air conditioned studio while the world melts outside.
I began working on this piece by listening to Keith Emerson's brilliant piano work on Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression. You may hear influences. I was unable to come even close to that hipness, and ended up steering closer to Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, which still works for me. I had been approached some time ago to write a contemporary classical concerto with progressive rock influences. I hope to have more progressive rock stylings in the coming movements, altho I suspect it will all end up closer to this. I think I'll listen to Charles Ives, too, for the next weeks.
Please consider:
1) Do you think it needs percussion? (I really dislike adding percussion and almost always leave drum lines to drummers when arranging for stage or studio.)
2) If you would like to add an orchestral/progressive percussion track to this, please let me know. Much of the piece was played in without afixing it to a specific internal clock, so you'll have to play it on the fly, I imagine.
Let me know what you think. The track uses mainstream Jam Pack and standard string patches, both becuz I wanted to be able to collab easily on it and exchange Logic files (which I never ended up doing) and also becuz I had yet another hard drive crash and lost all my MOTU and non-Apple sounds from my sound library. I don't have the energy to reinstall them. This is supposed to be demo, anyway, so I am glad it sounds as realistic as it does. It's slow going, but a nice project to fool around with in the air conditioned studio while the world melts outside.
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davisamerica
amazing as it stands. Hard for me to imagine drums right now because it seems so complete. Terry will be happy he had a small part in the "kick start" of you doing what you do so well.