This is another example of the Tuba repertoire "borrowing" music composed for other instruments.  Robert Schumann's Fantasiestucke was composed in 1849 and represents the "Romantic" style of European music, an era that overlooked the Tuba as a solo music instrument.  The memorable motivic themes are my favorite part of this piece.

Here is the live performance from my Senior Recital at Bates Recital Hall at the University of Texas at Austin.

Robert Schumann - Fantasiestucke, Op 73

Hey guys! So I've been trying to get more into voice acting recently, and made a demo of some character voices!

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This writing of this track started with me wanting to emulate the music of Mega Man Battle Network. I wanted to have similar composition, while using the majority of the stock sounds you would hear on a GBA console. I ended up making something that reminded me of the "Network Themes" of the series. This is the music that you hear any time you are online in the game. So, I decided to make this a tribute song to those themes by sneaking in some melodic references to each network theme in the series. If you know the series well, maybe you can pick them all out. Also, that would explain why this may not be so well-organized.

I plan to continue working on this track. Some things I need to accomplish before it's done:

1) Re-arrange the song itself. There isn't a satisfying "flow" to this song. I want to maybe cut or add some things to remedy that.
2) Incorporating more custom sounds. Most of the stuff I use in this track is custom made by either me, or from a MMBN soundfont that I used for some of the sounds. I spent much of today emulating some MMBN sounds.
3) Remixing. This is a rough mix btw. I need to fix the low pass filter so that it doesn't crackle, and also I need to mix the song, rather than lazily throwing a compression preset on it. I was eager show my progress.

Anywho. Hope you enjoy! Just know that I still have a lot of work ahead of me with finishing this. I haven't heard this in my speakers, by the way. Just my headphones. I wouldn't be surprised if the bass is way to over-powering.

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This SoundCloud has the audio files of my recordings, including some from my student days.  Check the links below for newer videos!

Robert Schumann - Fantasiestucke, Op 73

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