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Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by maxibaires » Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:15 am

Hey I want to know your opinions about a track that I recentrly submited


Here is my track: https://soundcloud.com/user487235859/silentwaltz

And here is the submition text: PUBLIC DOMAIN and/or ORIGINAL, CLASSICAL STRING QUARTET INSTRUMENTAL PIECES are needed for a NON-Exclusive placement by a Hollywood Music Supervisor for a fancy restaurant scene in a very popular series! He's hunting for mood-setting Instrumental pieces in the general stylistic wheelhouse of Beethoven, Pachelbel, Rachmaninov, etc., etc., etc. Please review the following pieces to get yourself in the ballpark of the hoity toity sound he needs:

"String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18" by Beethoven

"Canon and Gigue in D Major" by Johann Pachelbel

"String Quartet No. 1, Romance" by Sergei Rachmaninov

Give them authentic sounding pieces that are either real instruments, or sound indistinguishable from a real string quartet. Any material that sounds stiff or "synthy" won't work well for this pitch. This track will be used as source music, so be sure your piece creates an atmosphere of elegance and sophistication. Instrumentals that are at least two-minutes long are recommended, and you'd be smart to avoid pieces that are overly busy so they don't distract from the scene's dialogue. If you submit a cover of Public Domain piece, you'd be wise to stick to the traditional arrangement of the piece so it sounds familiar to the Music Supervisor. Broadcast Quality is needed (great sounding home recordings are fine).

Thank you to all that read this post and comment.

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Re: Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by jonnybutter » Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:48 pm

Hola Max!

I thought this was an interesting piece, but am not sure it's a good fit for the listing - the writing doesn't sound very 'classical', which I think is what they wanted. Of course I could be totally wrong about that!

buena suerte y saludos!

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Re: Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by maxibaires » Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:31 pm

Thank you for the feedback, I didn't thought it that way

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Re: Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by jonnybutter » Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:50 pm

La frase clave es 'hoity toity' = 'pretencioso' o 'esnob'. Probablamente hay una palabra o frase buena de Lunfardo, pero mi esposa (una porteña) esta dormiendo en este momento....sorry.

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Re: Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by maxibaires » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:26 am

Hola jonnybutter, gracias por tu comentario.
No había pensado en eso que me decís, "pretencioso" o "esnob" es bastante claro, pero realmente no entiendo por qué se merecería ese calificativo. Por otro lado lo que pedían era un cuarteto de cuerdas para una escena en un fancy restaurant poniendo como ejemplos un barroco (Pachelbel), un clásico (Beethoven) y un romántico (Rachmaninov) con caracteres bastante disimiles así que quizás no estuve tan alejado (al menos en la concepción), si pensamos un restaurante de ese tipo con esos calificativos. Por ahí metí la pata en la ejecución tanto en la escritura como en la grabación)
Pensé en los cuartetos de Sibelius (Voces Intimae), Ravel y Debussy que me gustan mucho y salvando los millones de kilómetros de distancia que hay entre esos genios y este humilde músico.
La verdad no usé elementos demasiado sofisticados y no tengo mucha experiencia en el uso de intrumentos vst.
Me interesa tu crítica, ¿podrías ampliar el concepto?.
De nuevo gracias por el feedback.

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Re: Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by jonnybutter » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:14 pm

Hola Max,

Por favor, aceptas mis disculpas. No tengo mucho tiempo hoy - mis suegros (en BsAs) estan infermos - sí, los dos - y.....es una crisis. (Y estoy aprendiendo espanol todavia!)

'Hoity toity' es un modismo puramente de estados unidos, y, en mi opinion, es la frase mas importante que todo en este <<listing>> - significa esnob, la clase alta, ricos, etc. En realidad, musica es musica, y no tiene relacíon inevitablemente con clase, pero es un cliche común en peliculas/programas aqui. La musica debe 'telegraph' esta sensación. Me gusta su música, pero no darme esta sensación.

chau! hasta luego, y perdon por mi espanol débil!

Jon

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Re: Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by maxibaires » Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:48 pm

Ah ok , ahora entiendo lo que quisiste decir. Muchas gracias por tu comentario y no debes disculparte por nada en absoluto, soy yo quien pidió críticas. Ojala mejoren tus suegros. Saludos, Max.

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Re: Opinions for a Sumit?

Post by jonnybutter » Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:17 pm

gracias. saludos!

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