No artwork
Get Flash to see this player.
Description
First off, please excuse the sound quality - the Sibelius sounds really don't do the piece justice I think!
Now that's said, let me tell you a little about the piece.
It's written for symphony orchestra, I wrote it over the time of three months along side other projects (two quartets, a sonata and a cello concerto I only got five minutes through then gave up - too many ideas that were too different from each other, oh and a dance music album). As with all of my classical compositions, (with exception my only award winning composition - maybe that's telling me something!) I titled the piece after finishing it (if there ever is such a stage), so "Ocean View" is really just my interpretation of the piece, to the best overall feeling I got from the piece, but everybody's different so please do leave comments!
As this isn't one of my dance tracks that I may list in stores I'll enable downloading if you want to listen to this offline. And I'll upload Metric (the composition I mentioned earlier that I named before writing) as well.
Now that's said, let me tell you a little about the piece.
It's written for symphony orchestra, I wrote it over the time of three months along side other projects (two quartets, a sonata and a cello concerto I only got five minutes through then gave up - too many ideas that were too different from each other, oh and a dance music album). As with all of my classical compositions, (with exception my only award winning composition - maybe that's telling me something!) I titled the piece after finishing it (if there ever is such a stage), so "Ocean View" is really just my interpretation of the piece, to the best overall feeling I got from the piece, but everybody's different so please do leave comments!
As this isn't one of my dance tracks that I may list in stores I'll enable downloading if you want to listen to this offline. And I'll upload Metric (the composition I mentioned earlier that I named before writing) as well.
Leave a Comment
You must be registered and logged-in to comment.
drakonis
I liked how you take your time on the intro build... tentative, letting us wonder where this might go. At 3:40 the kettle drum rhythm seemed to start up a little strong and maintain a constant feel... I might have started with more sporadic hits, and slowly build to the sudden stop, for more tension. Nice build to the finish.
The Sibelius sounds are good, not great... I agree. There seems to be very little low-frequency oomph here (where are the trombones and cellos and basses?) But overall you got a pretty good sound for this. Have you tried exporting the Sibelius file to MIDI, and importing into GarageBand and using even Apple's Symphony Jampack to spice it up? That's how I write and render music (except I don't use Sibelius for scoring.) It takes some tweaking in GB to get things sounding good, even with that. But it is all I can afford just now :-)
Anyway, a very nice gentle piece, well orchestrated.
ttfn,
Drakonis