Hey Mark, thanks! I do a mix of live recording and sample work, so I've started to keep people guessing as to which is which but I'm working with a few different things. I've got an acoustic whitney (by Kimball) at home (one of the nicer sounding ones... ha), and seek out different studios and/or 'specialty' pianos for concept projects/unique projects like this one... or I spend a decent amount of time customizing samples for any virtual work. Use a lot of NIs pianos among other things!markismusic wrote:Happy release day!
Lovely tunes Anna! Really cool vibe. Piano sounds great!
What piano samples are you using if you don't mind me asking?
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Haha! Living to make people miserable, one work at a time!Unstar wrote:Listening to these bangerz. Once again your tunes are making me reflect on my poor life choices Lovely stuff! Cheers.
Thanks for listening!
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Thanks Bruce! So glad you enjoyed it. Thoroughly enjoyed writing it... was nice to do something a bit different for a change!ecurb wrote:Awesome, Anna. Given that most of what we share on these forums is constrained by very specific briefs we're writing for, it's great to get a listen to what can happen when you open the gates.
Love the development throughout this, some pretty edgy stuff building up both rhythmically and melodically but with a strong sense of continuity and of a journey from start to end that makes it all make sense. Very nicely done!
Bruce.
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Thanks Peter! Glad you enjoyed!funsongs wrote:WOW! - congrats!
Since I do songs, and generally know that the structure of one is gonna be something like 2:30 - 3:30... preferring to be even 3:00 or less;
when - if ever - in the course of composing an instrumental piece - do you set parameters for changes and/or the ending?
Do you find an inspired piece difficult to quit/stop/end/wrap up with the satisfaction of it feeling 'complete' and finished?
It's amazing what you do - that you CAN do that - seems like magic.
FWIW - though I haven't listened to a lot of it in recent years - the piano composers were usually my favorite kind of listening music.
Claude Debussy being one of them - probably because I ended up with an LP of his; not autographed, of course...
Do you know what an LP is? Why of course you do. (Gramps probably showed one to you...) hee hee hee...
Great job. Splendid & superb. Even for Old-Guy ears.
Cheers.
It depends what I'm composing for—if it's for a brief, I usually reference tempo of the reference tracks and then figure out how many measures I need to fulfill whatever time length they're requesting. Then compose within that parameter.
For this—didn't plan a thing. Just wrote until they felt finished! Some of them started as short sketches that I planned on developing further... but every time I added something more, I just felt like I was ruining a good thing.
I'm also a big Debussy fan... played a lot of his work in University.
LP.... that's lollipop, right...?
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Thanks for listening, Andy!andygabrys wrote:Sweet stuff. Congrats!
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Thanks Kolstad! Hope you're well!Kolstad wrote:Love it!
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Thank you Lori!LoCaRi987 wrote:Beautiful!
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