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Update 2/15/20 - Another year down... another lesson in humility,  always next year! 

Lewitt Mixing Competition

Saint Agnes - Move Like A Ghost

Mixed By Tainted Icarus

As December starts off my friends its back to one of my yearly guilty pleasures.... the competitions.   Even if it doesn't net a win... its a year over year marker of progress.   I hope you will join me this year.  It runs until the end of December!  So still time left to mix!

This track by Saint Agnes is a live single room recording.  This style of recording presents a whole series of interesting issues to deal with.  Without a doubt a fantastic reason to jump in and experience a high end recording and get a chance to deal with industry standard issues.  

They have a great 1.5hr video that walks you through the mixing process.  I would recommend doing that after you finish your work and you can see the differences in process.  

https://www.lewitt-audio.com/mix

Hey you can have some fun too while your at it!

A shout out to Bill (https://soundcloud.com/november-love-680008043 )from November Sound,  who I asked to help me with identifying issues. After a while you start to lose the necessary objectivity! One of the greatest assets you can have is an engineering friend who will really try to help you eek out the best version of your work.  For being that Bill you have my gratitude!!

Special thanks to Brian (Another set of ears).  To Lewitt for hosting the competition, the plug-in and the mixing video.  Finally to the band Saint Agnes for allowing a group of hungry engineers to mess around with pro level work..  Thank you and rock on brothers and sisters!

Move Like A Ghost

Competition - Move Like A Ghost by Saint Agnes - LEWITT mixing competition

Sang you a nursery rhyme
Changing all but one line
The line I feel is about you

You were so wonderful
You liked a fun for all
And I felt fun when with you

CHORUS
And the nights seem so dull and the bedroom real cold without you
Now I speak to myself can't stand anyone else only you

You looked so deathly thin
'cause you didn't eat nothing
But I liked that about you

One cold night when I awoke
To see you go up in smoke
And I warmed my hands over you

CHORUS

Sang you a nursery rhyme
Changing all but one line
That line I feel is about you

You were so wonderful
But you were combustible
There's a warmth in my heart
You

Nursery Rhyme

Finalist piece in the competition announced by the Collegium Musicum of Bolzano, Un “divertimento” per la convivenza.

Based on the poem by U. Saba "Quasi una moralità".

for the full track:
gigammino@gmail.com

Prefazione [I mov. of "Quasi un divertimento"] for flute and violin

Photographs

Competition entry for the Professional Composers Community 2020 September, Nostalgic Music Contest, inspired by Morricone.

Another quick job, as there's been too much overtime and other distractions lately, so it's a rather simple arrangement, and the mix is pretty much all baked reverb (or integrated IRs in the case of Infinite), apart from piano and pan flute.

Structure is basically ABA, preceded by a long intro. The main theme is the A section, with just a solo violin over a sparse arrangement the first time, and the full orchestra coming in the second time. The B section is an evolution of the last few notes of the main theme.

Rhythm is constantly marked by some combination of piano, harpsichord, and woodwinds.

Used:
Cubase Pro 10.5
Kontakt
Pro-Q3
ValhallaShimmer
Ozone 9

Infinite Woodwinds
Infinite Brass
Spitfire Solo Strings
Spitfire Chamber Strings
Spitfire Symphonic Woodwinds
Spitfire Orchestral Percussion
CineBrass Descant Horn
Ravenscroft 275
OT Harpsichords
ISW Ventus Pan Flutes

Western Plains

For my sister.




Ensemble for Oboe, Bb Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Piano

Lento con dolore in G minor for Piano Quintet, no. 57

pm.1.061220

Kung Fu Ken

“Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.”
― Kasie West, Pivot Point

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
― Voltaire

“If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

White Rabbit picture by Freepik: https://bit.ly/3q5SJ2x

Produced by Lara Petersson

Watch Carefully EP

The Wrong End Of A Telescope

Buy at Bandcamp

Moebius Void - Watch Carefully EP - 02 - The Wrong End Of A Telescope

Teacher and Composer

Born in Palermo in 1983, Giuseppe Gammino attended at the Conservatory of Music “V. Bellini” of Palermo, where got a bachelor degree in violin. He attended at the University of Palermo, where he  got his master degree (laurea magistrale) in musicology under the guidance of Massimo Privitera. He played in a lots of orchestras, he collaborates with the press area of the Massimo Theatre of Palermo and the press area of “Musicheria Magazine On-Line”. He attended at the music composition degree course at the Conservatory of Music “C. Monteverdi” of Bolzano, under the guidance of Heinrich Unterhofer. In 2013 his composition Quasi un divertimento for violin and flute, received several praises and positive remarks, at the musical contest Un “divertimento” per la convivenza, organized by the Collegium Musicum of Bolzano. His composition per aspera Ad Astra (2013) for bass clarinet, viola and live electronics, was performed at the Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art of Bolzano; while the piece Connection failed was performed in November 2014 at the 40th Contemporary Music Festival. In 2016 he was selected among the best three composers as part of the "Residence for Composers" project, organized by the Municipality of Salorno and the "C. Monteverdi ”in Bolzano at the“ Sculpture garden ”of Pochi di Salorno. In July 2016, the piece Siddhartha I was ranked second from the competition organized by the Südtiroler Künstlerbund (SKB) in the context of “Settimane Mahleriane di Dobbiaco”. In 2019 the contemporary music festival of Bolzano commissioned him a piece, Pelle II, performed by the percussionist quartet conTakt on 11/13/2019.

Prefazione [I mov. of "Quasi un divertimento"] for flute and violin

Giuseppe Gammino

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