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PIANO MUSIC

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Andrew Souter

Not Ambient But Nice

I'm away from the piano at the moment, so I thought I'd share this with everybody...

Compositional sketch for a modern Pastoral Appassionata String Quintet.  Primary composition sometime in November 2013.  Work in progress.

Somebody asked if this is a "sad" song.  Here is my answer:

It is not a "human emotion" song.   It is more a divine/nature/universe  song.  It does not have human emotions like happy/sad.  It has only what is.  It has only pure beauty. Like a waterfall.  Or a mountain.  Or a star. A waterfall is not sad.  Or happy.  It only is. It is simply pure beauty.

Pastoral = of or referring to nature or the creator

Appassionata = with passion  (but in this case, it is not passion like between a man and woman.  it is more passion of the creator for his creation or created for his creator.)

It is more of a spiritual music.  This is what I will do more of later in life. Like these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_minimalism

I aspire to follow in their footsteps one day.

Somebody asked about the plug-ins used:

Solo Bass, Cello, Viola, Violin 1, & Violin 2 from NI Kontact (standard set from Komplete) for this sketch.  Sometime later I will ideally record the real thing... (Or at least use more advanced string libraries.) 6 Instances of 2CAudio Breeze (which I am the developer of) are used here to make the Kontact Strings sound reasonably good. 

http://2caudio.com/products/breeze

The strings samples themselves are not that good.  The reverb is!  :)  That's the trick here.



Many new solo piano compositions to share with you all soon!  Happy New Year!

Andrew Souter -- Pastoral Appassionata For String Quintet (Sketch)

To have a muse, in person or in spirit, is an artist's greatest yet most fickle gift. This closes the loop, completing a set of 3. 

The Muse: http://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse
The Muse II: http://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse-ii

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Photograph © 2012-2013 <a href=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=532762340073690&set=pb.156806751002586.-2207520000.1370912183.&type=3&theater>Cap Photography</A>.

Support Artist

The Muse III

from 'The Little Match Girl' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den196
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/hydrasdream]

HYDRAS DREAM is the new collaborative project of the Swedish musicians ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF and MATTI BYE. Denovali Records is pleased to announce the release of Hydras Dream's debut THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL in March 2014. 

The Little Match Girl

Preorder / Buy

Hydras Dream - The Joys Of A New Year

This set contains sounds from 8Dio Claire Oboe Virtuoso - a music software (VST) symphonic instrument featuring a highly playable and expressive solo Oboe - exclusively available at www.8dio.com

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8Dio Claire Oboe Virtuoso: "In Aeternum" by Ivan Torrent

Music: Johannes Brahms
Arrangement & Vocal: Hani Niroo
Vocal: Shahrzad Beheshtian

لالایی/کودکانه

Buy it here

Korablove - Frosty Morning

HateYou

from 'The Little Match Girl' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den196
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/hydrasdream]

"Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet. ..."

Hydras Dream is a special collaboration between the Swedish musicians ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF and MATTI BYE (winner of the Guldbaggen 2014 price for scoring the film drama "Faro" and composer of the film score for "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"). The concept behind this project is to interpret stories, movies and myths into musical landscapes. For their debut album "The Little Match Girl", von Hausswolff and Bye construed the beautiful and melancholic story by H.C. Andersen of the same title. Asked about the reason for this particular choice, the two musicians state: "It was her tragic faith in the winter's cold that inspired us. She is freezing to death with no money and no comfort, she is all alone, dreaming of a warmer place. When death strikes her she is filled with magical illusions and dreams. Oddly enough, hypothermia and death are the only two comfort zones we experience in this story. Sad but beautiful."

"... The lights [...] rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire. "Someone is just dead!" said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God. She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love. ..."

The music of Hydras Dream is mostly made through improvisation and by using repetitious patterns and melodies. Indeed, the two musicians state "We want to use intuition and spontaneity as two key elements in the compositions, and therefore we don't pre-record anything. We just play whatever feels good and fits the theme and press rec." Thus it is no surprise that "The Little Match Girl" was written and recorded during only three days in Matti Bye's studio. Exploring the entire spectrum of their instruments, von Hausswolff and Bye ingeniously combined their virtuosity in order to craft an eclectic and delicate album, located somewhere inbetween neo-classical experimentalism and avantgarde dream-pop. One can virtually image how the notes of this debut faintly resound behind the candle-lit windows which separate the little match girl from the life-saving warmth, how their echoes join her in her inevitable fate ...

"... But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall -- frozen to death on the last evening of the old year. [...] "She wanted to warm herself," people said. No one had the slightest suspicion of what beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year."

Hydras Dream - Hypothermia

A collage highlights overview of The Idea Of You album, providing 0:45 to 1:30 or so of each track on the album.

The full album is now available now on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-idea-of-you/id854783736

Full album Info, longer previews (full song in several cases), and new web site:

http://www.galbanum.com/music/theideaofyou

New Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-GfCM5-zk

(BTW: all the individual tracks found in the album playlist and uploaded previously here, were replaced with re-recorded versions from Jan 2014, so you can hear longer clips of the final versions and sometimes the full song in the playlist as well.  ...or stream from the player on the new web site...)

Sheet music will be available soon as well.

"The Idea Of You" is the first of a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may it help you on your journey, as it has us...

"The Idea Of You" is music inspired by the spirit of Eros and all of its blessings as well as its tribulations. It explores the vicissitudes of romantic love, the delicate seasons and contour of life, and all the lessons learned along the way. Themes of desire, passion, limerence, romantic love, idolatry, jealousy, envy, loss, regret, forgiveness, acknowledgment, appreciation, acceptance, and eventually glimpses of true understanding permeate the work. It attempts to communicate that which so many of us can never quite communicate properly with words. It is an open apology for the clumsy mistakes we all make when coming to maturity in learning how to care selflessly for another human being. It is a gentle reminder as to what is most important in life, as well as an invocation to continuously seek self-improvement regarding our understanding of such matters.

Andrew Souter -- The Idea Of You Album Overview (Available Now)

Back to Life

Journey of the Heart

Alone In The Night

Orilla Urbana (Urban Shore) - fourth piece of the the new EP "Acuarelas junto al rio inmóvil" (Watercolours alongside the still river), available on Spotify, iTunes & Co. 
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jgO16ejtXVAqpHFRXfZYY

additional information:
http://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_acuarelas_junto_al_rio_inmovil.html

Acuarelas junto al río inmóvil

Orilla urbana

JUAN MARIA SOLARE: Orilla Urbana (Acuarelas junto al río inmóvil, nr 4)

Sleepwalking (Ambient)- Bring Me The Horizon

From the second Wayfarer album: Art Official Life

Completely custom sound design produced entirely by tools I invented and developed at 2CAudio and Galbanum...

Namely Kaleidoscope, B2, and Aether:
http://www.2caudio.com/products/kaleidoscope
http://www.2caudio.com/products/b2
http://www.2caudio.com/products/aether

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Wayfarer -- Adobe Of Light

Grey Skies (Reflections EP) Follow Me on Spotify

Grateful to Jens for that collaboration.
It has been a magical moment :-)
you can listen the wonderful works by Jens here: https://soundcloud.com/jens-felger
the original piano solo version https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/nocturne-29-oct-looping

Spotify

Looping Feat. Jens Felger - please support me on spotify http://spoti.fi/1Awll3h

Railway is a track off my album Travelogue released by Beacon Sound

Bandcamp: https://derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com/album/travelogue
Vinyl: www.wearebeaconsound.com/shop/derek-hunter-wilson
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/travelogue/1447133880
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1IJ4LzupIXfLw00f9435pj
Amazon: amzn.to/2oRZRDS

Recorded between March - August 2015 at Buzz or Howl Studios and Type Foundry both in Portland, OR. 
Mixed at Type Foundry August 2015

Derek Hunter Wilson: Piano and Synths
Peter Broderick: Violin
Brian Sanderlin: Cello

Engineered and Mixed by Jason Powers
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion Studio

Travelogue

Railway

http://www.sonokinetic.net/products/classical/capriccio/
Capriccio is our biggest Orchestral collection yet, both in terms of physical size and in terms of sound, which is just...BIG!
We had conductor Petr Pololanik approach the limits of his Capellen orchestra for these recording sessions, and the resulting energy, drive and power really comes across in each and every sample. Each phrase has been carefully treated from conception through production to implementation in the final instrument, to make sure it would work as a whole, and be as widely usable as possible.
We say it is big, and the sound is big, but as you can hear from the demos the sound has a diverse range of uses and is only limited by your own imagination. You can use Capriccio as a base for your composition, or to complement your existing piece, using only bits and pieces. It can be really loud and awe-inspiring, or gently set the mood.
If you are familiar with our previous orchestral instrument 'Grosso', Capriccio's user interface should look quite familiar. The basic structure of the instrument is the same, using 4 presets each divided in 3 layers, but there are many innovations within Capriccio that will make working with this library even more intuitive and flexible. Highlights include the 'phrase offset' slider, separate volume setting for release tails and MIDI drag/drop from the score view in the interface, straight into your DAW.
With Capriccio we’ve brought phrase-based sampling bang up to date. Throw away your preconceptions of stiff one-shot samples and use the power of the Capriccio interface to harmonise, syncopate, offset and blend every one of the 38,000 samples. We’ve wrung every bit of creativity and flexibility out of these phrases and built a bespoke interface that will allow you to do the same.
Despite advancements in sampling technology, you simply can't beat the realism of live played phrases and orchestral patterns so our goal is to make these as playable as possible, like a real instrument, with the minimum of end-user programming. These instruments are meant to stimulate your creativity, and based on the feedback we are getting, that is exactly what they do.
Please watch our range of videos if you want to know more about Capriccio’s inner workings. There are many 'hidden' features that will enhance your user experience a great deal if you know how to use them. For example, with Grosso we added 'bar sync' but for Capriccio we also added 'phrase offset’. These things are very complicated in terms of under-the-hood programming but we’re sure that the intuitive interface makes it easy to realize the potential of features like this.
All phrases for Capriccio are composed in 4/4, with straight 8th and 16th notes.
We have also included a 'runs' instrument with strings and woodwinds runs, a gorgeous and eminently playable multisampled percussion patch and a melodic percussion instrument containing Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Tubular Bells and Piano phrases.
We, at Sonokinetic BV, are very proud to introduce Capriccio to you and can’t wait to hear the amazing things you, our valued customer base, will produce with it.
Sonokinetic has established a name as one of the best value & quality sample producers and with this product we’d like to underline that statement. We stick with our unbeatable pricing module and high quality sampling.
We wish you the best inspiration and creativity. 

Capriccio Demo - The rhythm of seasons by Franck Barré

Bolero (Piano Cover)

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Inspirational (DOWNLOAD:SEE DESCRIPTION) | Royalty Free Music | INSPIRING CINEMATIC TOUCHFUL

Be careful to sow wisely the good seed, for one day you may have to eat its fruit.  Perhaps grace is not demanding to receive everything that we think we are entitled to by our own merit or position, but rather to instead give thanks for not receiving everything we may deserve for our failures and folly. Let us be diligent year round to do the best we can to nurture our crop. Let us be humbly content to accept result of these efforts, whatever it may be, at the time of the harvest.

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"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

"Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- The Harvest

Overview of "Autumn Rains".

Full Info:
https://www.galbanum.com/music/autumnrains

Available on iTunes & Apple Music here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/autumn-rains/id1063015335

Alternatively, "CD Quality" uncompressed WAV format is available for purchase immediately directly from me here:

http://www.designersound.com/product_info.php?cPath=34&products_id=117

"Autumn Rains" is the second installment in a trio of neoclassical solo piano albums composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Souter. These projects have been two decades in the making and represent a return to traditional music composition, engaging song-writing, and the pure passion of emotional story-telling. This trio represents Andrew's most personal and intimate music. It is quite literally a love project. We hope it may help you on your journey, as it has us...

Autumn Rains Cover Art "Autumn Rains" is music inspired by the spirit of Agape. It is an album dedicated to the concept of spiritual love and universal compassion clothed in the metaphor of transcendental natural beauty. It is an album that simultaneously expresses deep love for both the creator as well as the creation. It is said God gave us music so that we could pray without words. It could be added that nature was provided as an example of exactly how to do this effectively. In this spirit, Autumn Rains is a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the natural beauty of this world, and an expression of a sense of respect for the inescapable universal equality that nature imposes. It humbly attempts to capture deep feelings of awe, granduer, idealism, and a belief in the innate goodness of the world even when we all face exceptionally hard lessons.

Andrew Souter -- Autumn Rains Album Overview (Available Now!)

Here is my first Single "Come Back Baby" 
Written by Jasmin M. 

Music arranged, performed and produced by Marc Bugnard - LFT Studio
This Song is also available in the ITunes & AppleStore here: 
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1066961316?ls=1&app=itunes
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1066961316


Come Back Baby

Jasmin M. - Come Back Baby

My second album "Different Ways" is now on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/intl-tr/album/1KKm4xk6RZ4Ty4O5dGjxY5?si=EIb-PsrLSxOwN-pBk-FTKQ

Marvel

Special Edition of "Met by the Moonlight", with 6 bonus tracks.

05 The Walk

Listening to Molly's percussions track I felt inspired to add an improvised piano tune to this, using the original Una Corda piano... perhaps you like this combination - I do. :-)
Please check out Molly's page as well: http://soundcloud.com/molly-b-13

Frozen Brain Frozen Mind - Collab with Molly Berghout

A scoring project I did last month for your enjoyment!  

Musical timing and structure follows the video edit very closely which led to this interesting compound-meter, asymmetric groove thing that ended up sounding pretty cool IMHO...

Hope you enjoy it...

Live Long (Score)

Always On The Run
Cover / Always On The Run - Lenny Kravitz
Paploviante Production 2016
Bass, Synth and mix Paploviante
Guitars:
Brent Mason 
and Carlos Eduardo Arellano
Logic Pro X

Always On The Run - Cover

Download & Stream Confidently Lost - https://lnk.to/SCConfidentlyLostEP

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Production Company:  Club Paradise

Director:  Daniel Behrens 
Producer:  Alex Hidalgo
Director of Photography:  Zhenya Kozlov
Edited By:  Brad Bischoff
Colored By: Casey Bohrnell

I Don't

Another scoring project I did for a technology company in the silicon valley.  A nice, playful feeling of potential and achievement and the goal of making the wold a better place through invention and engineering...

Happy Technology (Score)

Beethoven--0 - Bethoven - 7th Symphony

Trascrizione per organetto (21+8) di Gianni Ventola Danese.

Brano compreso nel catalogo delle lezioni del Corso Multimediale Online di organetto.

www.organetto.name

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Transcription for diatonic accordion (21+8)by Gianni Ventola Danese

This tune online video lesson is available in the Diatonic Accordion Online Multimedia Course by "Accordion Academy"

www.organetto.name

La foule - Edith Piaf

醉漁唱晚 Evening Song of the Drunken Fisherman

Sunday

Dario Marianelli: Liz on Top of the World

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (FULL)

Sad-violin

I create things.  Musical things...  Technological things...

Production of my third solo piano album to complete the trilogy is underway now! Stay tuned...

If you enjoy the music please support via Apple Music, Spotify, or other streaming/download service. My music is also available directly from my company web-store in uncompressed WAV format as well if you prefer:

http://www.designersound.com/

My other job is co-founder and primary algorithm designer of 2CAudio.  We make some pretty cool stuff for the pro audio software community including some of the best reverbs on the planet, which you are hearing in all of my personal work here too of course.

http://www.2caudio.com
http://galbanum.com/about/people/

Thanks for all of your kind words and support!