Short pieces written to demonstrate some of the patches of various sound libraries...

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A few months ago, my 12-year-old son introduced me to the epic anime, Demon Slayer, and I immediately fell in love. The artistry... the storytelling, it sucked me right in! I created this arrangement as an homage to this amazing anime, and I orchestrated using Embertone's Intimate Strings, and Walker Concert D Piano. Thanks for listening!

All copyright belongs to their respective owners. 
Tanjirou Kamado No Uta by Go Shiina, featuring Nami Nakagawa
Cover Arranged & Produced by Alex Davis

Intimate Solo Strings Bundle - Demon Slayer - Tanjirou Kamado No Uta

I recently challenged myself to make an expanded string quintet arrangement around the theme from the popular anime, DEATH NOTE. My son got me hooked on a couple other shows, namely Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan. Death Note will be the next show I binge watch :).

The theme has an interesting meter (alternating 13/8 and 14/8), and it's extremely stark and transparent: just a melody and a bassline. I tried to make the orchestration as colorful and interesting as possible, using only solo strings. It takes on a much different vibe from the original - almost sounds like something Stravinsky would write!

And then after sitting on the arrangement for a while, I couldn't resist but to add a subtle bass synth pulse, just to fill out the bottom end.

All copyright belongs to their respective owners. 
L's theme by Hideki Taniuchi and Yoshihisa Hirano
Cover Arranged & Produced by Alex Davis

Intimate Solo Strings Bundle - L's Theme from Death Note

More Information: http://vis.versilstudios.net/vsco-standard.html

VSCO Trailer - Kurt Landre [Kontakt]

Music created using DJANGO: Gypsy Jazz Guitar, now available from Impact Soundworks!

https://impactsoundworks.com/product/django-gypsy-jazz-guitar/

DJANGO: Gypsy Jazz Guitar "Djangled" by Kurt M. Landre

The Charmer - A Swarm Of Shawm - by Kurt Landre

Music written and produced using the Ventus Ethnic Winds - Tin Whistle instrument, developed by Impact Soundworks and available now for Kontakt!

https://impactsoundworks.com/product/ventus-ethnic-winds-tin-whistle/

Ventus Tin Whistle: "Leaves in the Creek" by Kurt M. Landre

Trees - The Giants

Original theme # 198, titled "Mysterious Adventure" from Embertone's Stranger Themes contest:
http://www.embertone.com/strangerthemes/
It features Embertone's Ivory Wind, Intimate Strings Light and Arcane for the leading and trailing "wind", in addition to Realivox Blue, Dimension Pro, XPand2 and standard Kontakt libraries.

Embertone Stranger Themes 2017 - Mysterious Adventure by Steve Cocchi

Insolidus is a new-generation choral library dedicated to effortless, lyrical and expressive choral writing. It is the first to feature expressive polyphonic legato, so you can play advanced chord- and syllable progressions with a single patch.
Insolidus can be a soft, distant light of a silent snowy night. A contemporary scoring choir for epic and emotional pieces. Your gentle and sleepy sonic textures or the first pilot for any classical music composition.

These tracks was composed with samples from 8Dio Insolidus. A virtual music software instrument (VST/AU/AAX) by www.8dio.com

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8Dio Insolidus Choir: "Awake" by Troels Folmann

Hey there,

here is a little testing of the Embertone Joshua Bell Violin. This short piece took me about 1.5 hours. I played it in with my masterkeyboard and just edited it a little bit. You even could go deeper with that vsti. I got almost all the solo violins out there these days. This one IMO is the strongest i have ever seen. Check it out!

Veil of Passion

Composer Steven Melin wrote a track using our Joshua Bell Violin live on youtube. This is the final version. Epic.

"Light In The Darkness"
composed by Steven Melin
www.StevenMelin.com

"Light In The Darkness" - Steven Melin

V SOPRANO CHOIR Dawn of the New World Kurt M Landre’

My first single is 'Magic.' Now available everywhere music happens.

Be sure to follow and visit my website - more is coming!

www.vvade.com

Artwork by Mikey Zoppo

VVADE - Magic

Featuring Julie Popelka on Bassoon captured wonderfully by our friends at Embertone.
Please support me on Patreon if you enjoy my work!
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1tdHPEu7gU9axrfswtGmhL
Bandcamp: seycara.bandcamp.com

Credits:

Created by: Yuang Chen
BG/Thumbnail - Hibike! Euphonium

Program used: Finale, Studio One

Visit our Soundcloud for more Seycara tunes: @seycara-orchestral
Website: www.seycara.com
Contact: music@seycara.com

Orchestration:

Solo Bassoon

1 Piccolo
1 Flute
1 Oboe
1 Cor Anglais
2 Clarinets in Bb
2 Bassoons

4 Horns in F
2 Trumpets in C
3 Trombones
1 Tuba

Timpani + 3 Percussion

Harp

Strings

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Festival of Lights | Bassoon & Orchestra

My second single to be released sometime soon* is 'New.'

It'll be available here for a bit before it goes live everywhere with the mastered version. Hope you dig it.

VVADE - New

Kurt M. Landré 

Born in the dimming haze of the latter half of the late 20th Century, Landré's musical fate was sealed even before his birth when his mother began pushing the family piano around the living room in an attempt to induce a fruitful end to her 10-month pregnancy. Landré apparently got the message and found his way into this world the very next day, with piano moving lessons following just a few years later. 

He was afterwards raised on a steady musical diet of Bach, Beatles, Beethoven, Chicago, Rossini, Three Dog Night, and the raw, pure horror of live, dueling accordion music (and yes, there were many fatalities). After his first musical forays into classical piano and cello, he discovered synthesizers in the mid 80's and his tastes began rapidly migrating from New Wave, to Punk, to modern classical composition.

Landré's formal education consisted of stints at Pacific Lutheran and the University of Oregon, where he annoyed all his professors with a continual and unyielding insistence on parallel fifths in every composition. Finally, in a desperate attempt to get himself barred from all things musical, he began playing Post Pop Punk and quickly devolved into a cruel Pacific Northwest caricature of an over-caffeinated, rim-spectacled, folk-strumming-three-chord monstrosity. He is most famous for having blackened the jubilant mood of a crowd of over 1000 people after striking only a single, well-timed chord on a poorly tuned mandolin.

Having fully alienated all popular music lovers worldwide, Landré returned to his roots and began composing music for entirely virtual orchestras, and quickly established himself as a demo composer, creating works for sound library companies such as Impact Soundworks, CL-Projects, Samplism, Lux Nox, Versilian Studios, and others. 

He is currently the House Composer for Bela D. Media, but can be still found attempting to strangle and torture the joy and happiness out of numerous acoustic instruments.

Influences:

Alexander Courage (Star Trek, Original Series)
John Williams
Samuel Barber
Gustav Holst
Steve Reich (steve Reich Steve reich steve riech STEVE REICH - does *anyone* other than me ever get that joke?)
Sean Beeson
Ennio Morricone
Peter Gabriel (Birdy, Last Temptation of Christ)
My grandfather and mother's accordion playing (play the accordion, go to jail - THAT'S THE LAW.)
Martin O'Donnell

The Charmer - A Swarm Of Shawm - by Kurt Landre

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