Orchestral Piece created with Synfire

Thanks for your nice comments.

Only a few basic material is needed to create a piece like this. Basically I used three short arrangement phrases here. Each of them is only a few seconds. The first one is that part that enters at 00:53, the second one is the flute/oboe motive which is first introduced at 00:29, then plays between between 6:57 and 9:20 and returns once again at the end (a very simple phrase, only triads with its inversions). The third one is the accompaniment to the flute/oboe motive that enters around 8:10.

The main part of the work was transforming and combining those phrases in Synfire. First I imported the phrases as an accompaniment and played around with the chord palettes. This is the part of the work, which I enjoy most. If a well working phrase is loaded I could stay hours and hours playing at the palettes with it. I’m really addicted to that feature of Synfire. You can easily blow a short phrase of a few seconds up to a several minutes part this way. So I feel finding a chord progression is not a task, but it’s just like a game with this tool.

In general it can be said that many phrases are a kind of "multi functional“, what means that they can be used in different contexts. Changing some parameters and using a different harmonic progression can give them a completely different mood. For example the accompaniment to the flutes/oboe-motive that enters at 8:10 I already used at the piece I posted earlier (see here: https://users.cognitone.com/content/orchestral-piece-created-harmony-navigator, there it’s the strings accompaniment to the flute motive that enters around 5:00). Here I used a different processing algorithm at the used MIDI effect (outside of Synfire) and changed some parameters after the import into Synfire. Of course also the tempo and the harmonic progression are different.

Therefore I think that it‘s not necessary to build up a huge phrase library. Collecting only a small assortment of well working phrases, which can be used in different music pieces, is also a possible approach and can give your music an unique style. Better not to overload a piece with hundreds of different phrases which the ear finally can’t memorize.

I worked about 2 month on this piece. I had a lot of fun with this project, so I was almost a little sad when it was finished. But of course I already started a new one...

Ofcourse you can convert  a music sheet with classical music notes to midi notes with some programs and extract there some phrases from. 

You can combine almost everything with everything. Don't stay too long with theoretical studies, better do some experimental things and see what happens. Here is one of my more experimental orchestral works, which I did with Synfire to see what’s the possibilities with the program:

"Fantasie für Hörner und Streichorchester"

http://www.box.com/s/1x0r54h30pljzr1ee0q1

© Jürgen Kraus 2011

In this piece I tried to combine some phrases from Mozart with those from a piece of a rock band. Although the result maybe is not perfect, I think it demonstrates that such a kind of phrase combination is possible.

Any ideas where the phrases I used here come from? The Mozart part should be relatively easy to identify (if you know the piece). At the "rock band part" I've driven a little more effort to conceil the
origin. Maybe you could recognize it at the rhythmical structure, particularly at 4:20. The sounds are by Halion orchestra here.

Yeah duderanch, another cool track from you. I like your music, because every track is completely different from the other. But I'm still most fascinated about your "Turdstep" track. It's my early morning wakeup call.

the endless combination of midi files from every know origin is almost overwhelming. 

Yeah, good music has no genre boundaries. That's also my message.