Divertimentos

A selection of my small ensemble and chamber style works...

Ensemble and Chamber Works

For No Particular Reason

Divertimento # 1

Divertimento #2

Incredible new *FREE* trombone library from Ivy Audio.  You've GOT to check it out:

http://www.ivyaudio.com/Carpenter-Trombone

The Dirge of Ahz (IvyAudio.CarpenterTrombone Demo)

Divertimento#3

http://impactsoundworks.com/products/orchestral/bravura-scoring-brass/

El Matador Enters The Kitchen! (Bravura Brass Version) - Impact Soundworks Bravura Brass Demo

Ilya Efimov Low Whistle sample library for Kontakt. Demo Track 
Composed and mixed by Kurt M. Landre'

"The Turasóir" by Kurt M. Landre' (Ilya Efimov Low Whistle)

Demo for the "microForj Samulis Recorder".

An early gift from the Xmas Fairy...

You can find the library here:
https://goo.gl/fKRKPq

And the score here:
https://goo.gl/HywMgw

Enjoy!

The Betrayer (microForj - Samulis Recorder Demo)

A fun little diversion...

Score available here:
https://goo.gl/TepYBW

Divertimento#5

Diversion ^ 4.

Score available here:
https://goo.gl/SZssg7

Divertimento#4 (Death Of A Clock)

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

VSCO Demo (Winds and Strings) - Kurt Landre [Kontakt]

Just mucking around with Aria's London Symphonic Strings series to see how they fare with Notion's native string libraries...

Strictly By The Book (Aria + Notion Strings Test)

Tiny Dashes (Valhalla Only)

In the tradition of Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" but a whole lot shorter...

Ambistra

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

Divertimento #2

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