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My weekly composition. This time, experimenting with major-minor and minor-major scales.
Better listened if downloaded.
(https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/track…)
Sun, 2012-07-22 - 16:19 Permalink
Geil! I love dark spaceous harmonies like that very much. There is always the danger of chords wandering aimlessly around, but you did the tension and release breathing very well.
I wonder how it would develop further if you added more texture to this progression, e.g. 1/8 and 1/16 patterns in the style of John Adams.
Did you use EWQL Orchestra?
Sun, 2012-07-22 - 20:01 Permalink
Thanks for the comments. As you know, I'm still in the discovery phase of the many software options. Therefore, these are pieces by way of experimentation. For now, I do not intend to further develop the composition, but continue to explore in depth SFP. I did not know John Adams and I've been hearing something by him. Good recommendation, to consider in the future.
However, I am glad to read that the listener detects these fluctuations between dark and shiny chords and how they change from tension to relaxation in the fragments.
The library is Symphobia quite manipulated in various parameters (Reverb, chorus, delays, EQs and filters) to get more forceful textures.
Thu, 2012-07-26 - 08:05 Permalink
One can see even at the concept of Synfire that you are a fan of John Adams:
"rather than set up small engines of motivic materials and let them run free in a kind of random play of counterpoint, I used the fabric of continually repeating cells to forge large architectonic shapes, creating a web of activity that, even within the course of a single movement, was more detailed, more varied, and knew both light and dark, serenity and turbulence." (John Adams)
Doesn't this statement of Adams describe perfectly the conceptual difference between Synfire and other composition programs such as Emily Howell and Octava Composer?
Thu, 2012-07-26 - 10:56 Permalink
So it make no sense to add some phrase generators to SFP?
Suppose you do have a phrase..and you add also a whole phrase generator to a container , than you can crate new phrases by editing the generator parameters.
Yes, phrase generators would be fine. Or alternatively a more subtle access to the transformation algorithms of the parameter "Variation".