What's the most beautiful instrument after the piano? Yes, the orchestra.  From the use of synthesizers in the beginning my interest shifts more and more to orchestral programming, with libraries from mainly Orchestral Tools and Spitfire Audio. And some Sonuscore here also. By the way the naming of 'Abbey' refers to Abbey Road One, a library from Spitfire Audio that I used (among others) in this piece. I hope you like it.

Orchestral Abbey Fantasy

...'Where zealous Mushtown crusaders
take their adventurous stories and
get purified by the Patron Saint'...

My Hybrid-Orchestral submission for the Ryan Leach April 2023 Composing Competition (max.90seconds music to image).

Competition organised by Ryan Leach.
Artwork 'Mush Town' by Marcos De La Sierra.
Music 'Temple of Catharsis'p composed, mixed and produced by Jeff Hijlkema.


1st Prize Winner! - Temple of Catharsis - entry for the Ryan Leach April 2023 Composing Competition

Right Where I Want You

This is a remaster of an earlier track (2021), it sounds somewhat more brighter now. Makes me feel somewhat more fine...

I Feel Fine

Ryan Leach proposed his most recent composition competition July 2023, based on a drawing/picture by David Frasheski; the image is shown above. Due to circumstances I was too late to come up with something before the deadline so this entry is not submitted for the competition. However, I made something after the deadline, within the 90 seconds limit. Is it based on, or is a connection with the drawing? Perhaps, perhaps not. It is not a Bonanza, High Chaparal or Ennio Morricone Western heroic style piece, it is what it is...with some melancholy feeling in it, some farewell-like mood.
(This is a second upload, the first upload had some flaws in the mastered end result.)

TerraCanyon Farewell

Back again with a fresh remix of this fire tune, enjoy.

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In the Clouds

A piece in a series of pieces with a short length, about 45 seconds.

45sec - Woezel

Relative long orchestral composition using a lot of libraries from Spitfire Audio and Orchestral Tools, and some others.
I finished it mostly with headphones, and that was satisfying in sound, but listening on the speakers, it is not yet what I aim for talking about the mastering, so this is not yet the final version I imagine in my head.

Dreamed Future

This is my entry for the Ryan Leach competition January 2024. They ask for a composition not longer than 90 seconds, based on an artwork. The artwork is created by Hardy Fowler. The shown image is cropped, the full image can be seen here:
https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/054/964/553/4k/hardy-fowler-7-cyberpunk.jpg?1665777108
In the music I tried to visualize the urban character of a world city conglomerate, the two persons in the center have some kind of intimate conversation, or is it a business conversation? The eastern elements are inspired by the chinese or japanese looking woman.
In the music orchestral settings are combined with eastern instruments, and also with a trance like middle part in which synth sounds play an important role.

Urban Intimacy

Spheres is a piece I made a long time ago, around 2000, with hardware synths (Roland JV1080 and Ensonic TS10) and with Notator on Atari computer. In a time without soft-synth compressors and eq... recorded on a DAT-recorder. Those were the days..

1st Prize Winner! - Temple of Catharsis - entry for the Ryan Leach April 2023 Composing Competition

Jeff Hijlkema

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