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

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music by Bill Brown

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Elegy

music by Bill Brown

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The Grande Plan

"Child At Play"
Composed by Kurt M. Landre
Ilya Efimov Tin Whistle. Demo track 

"Child At Play" by Kurt M. Landre (Ilya Efimov Tin Whistle)

Music/Arrangement/Production/Vocals/Lyrics by Achazia

Sacred Winds

The idea behind this piece was to use unconventional methods in a conventional score. Sam Cardon had introduced us to Nate Pyfer who had done work for Kaskade, Neon Trees and Lindsey Stirling to name a few. Anyway, he showed us his tricks and tips on how he produced music and that led to us writing music in similar fashion. Thus, I present to you "Breaking Point" featuring me on the guitar, and everything else. Enjoy.

04/15/2016

B R E A K I N G | P O I N T

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

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

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

This track was created using the "Joshua Bell Violin Essential" virtual instrument for Kontakt Player.

Joshua Bell Violin Essential - "Lifting The Veil" by Jonathan Churchill

Dark Hearts

Can Feel But Not See

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/spitfire-studio-woodwinds-professional/

A Twisted Tale - Dan Keen

THis is a track I composed using only instruments from ORchestral Tools' Creative Soundpack "ORE": https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/ore

It's a really nice little collection of sounds.

Botanical - Official ORE Demo

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Track Notes
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The name of this piece refers to the nymph from Homer's "Odyssey" that rescues Odysseus after his shipwreck. The piece features a typical staple of medieval instruments, though does also feature a cello which technically didn't exist until hundreds of years later :) The track starts serenely enough, with dueling whistle and bombarde parts in a type of "conversation" with each other. This then gives way to some ethereal vocals backed by a medieval lute and a baroque guitar ... before all hell breaks loose and the song moves squarely into its second act.

Put on a good pair of headphones and enjoy! Thank you for listening!
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Instruments:
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Bowed Strings: cello, hurdy gurdy drone + rhythm, tromba marina
Plucked Strings: bass citole, medieval lute, baroque guitar
Percussion: frame drum, snare, dayereh (similar to a tambourine), tom ensemble
Wind: soprano whistle, bombarde (a medieval reed instrument)
Vocals: 3 female soloists, male shouts
FX: waves, thunder

Image: "Venus" by Lindsay Rapp (https://lindsayrappgallery.com/products/venus-original-painting)

Calypso

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

"Child At Play" by Kurt M. Landre (Ilya Efimov Tin Whistle)

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