Tuesday, January 31, 2012

New Recording Setup

I just got my patchwork microphone setup working and have been experimenting with live instrumentation. I still have to work on my violin playing but I am excited for the possibilities this opens up for composing. I can finally improvise with myself with non virtual instruments! This song is just a rough improvisation but I plan on developing some of the melodic ideas and spiffing it up into an actual composition...or it may end up gathering dust in my "works in progress" folder like the hundreds (literally) of other ideas I have yet to develop.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Sunrise in the Andes


Here is a song I composed for a girl I loved who I met on an incredible journey through Ecuador. This is the first piano composition I have composed (not just improvised) since I was 12. It was quite a learning experience.

I also just improvised a newage piece with multiple instruments.
Sound Sample info
Decent quality virtual guitar, strings and flute from the sfz and Sample Tank2 free instrument libraries.  There is also an ambient background from the free Reaktor5 player.