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

Ensemble and Chamber Works

Jazz

Spotlight Playlist

Jazzy Bits

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

Sound Library Demos

A pure percussion tune for my highly energetic five year old daughter.  Merry Christmas, Pony Lovin' Princess!

Lords of a Fiercer Joy

Demos written with and featuring PEARL Concert Grand, a Kontakt Player piano instrument produced by Impact Soundworks!

"Winding The Gears" (Dressed) by Kurt M. Landre - Percussive Orchestral

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)

Something showing the more delicate side of Impact Soundworks Shreddage Drums library...


Grinding The Gears (ImpactSoundworks.ShreddageDrums Unofficial Demo)

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)

This track is an earthy, bouncy ragtime piano piece that would be useful for underscoring a scene that suggests the early Twentieth Century, or a barroom or western saloon scene.  1 min. 3 sec. At 130 bpm. Genre Suggestions: western, drama, comedy, animation, action, adventure
Its use can be purchased or licensed through AudioSparx at:
http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/search/home_srchpost.cfm?topsearch=1&target=David+Berlin&lsmeth=2


Rag.

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)

Lucky Lou And Jinxy Jenkins (final)

Many thanks to Hans for a chance to work with this great piano library!

Check it out at:
http://www.artvista.net/supergrand.html

Gears On The Sand (ArtVista Supergrand Dressed Demo)

Demos for the Elkatwin Kontakt sample library
http://xtant-audio.com/product/elkatwin/

Professor Sambanistas Glorious Eternal Dance Of Everlasting Love Forever - Kurt Landre

Afterstorm - Kurt Landre

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

VSCO Trailer - Kurt Landre [Kontakt]

VSCO Demo (Winds and Strings) - 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

A short soundtrack I did for the Oregon Game Project Challenge last year...

https://www.ogpc.info

Oregon Game Project Challenge - Video Soundtrack

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

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

Grinding The Gears (ImpactSoundworks.ShreddageDrums Unofficial Demo)

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