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

Ensemble and Chamber Works

A Microtragedy

Just a quick demo from my new freebie library - "microForj - Fiedler Tin Whistle". It's available here: http://goo.gl/eaQdQG

"Fiedler Calls Them Home" - microForj.FiedlerTinWhistle (demo)

A short demo ofmy new freebie library - "microForj - Van Houzen Trumpet".  It features 3 dynamic layers and uses Kontakts optional "Authentic Expression Technology" (AET).  It's available here: http://goo.gl/VwW71y 

FYI - All other brass is from the Notion native instruments.

"El Matador Enters the Kitchen!" - microForj.UofI.VanHouzenTrumpet (demo)

A short demo of my new freebie library - "microForj - Melodic Sopranos" (you know, as opposed to other kinds of sopranos out there ;-) ).  

Derived from BigCat's "Sweet Melodic Choir", it also features Big Bob's WIPS scripting for realistic legato and superb glide.  It makes for a great Morricone Western "high desert choir" sound.

Also making appearances are two other microForj libraries - "Fiedler Tin Whistle" and "Van Houzen Trumpet".

The library is available here: 
http://goo.gl/Us3CsY

And the score for this demo is available here:
http://goo.gl/kLK0Bp

Mildred's Skies Are Dragonflies - microForj.Melodic Sopranos (Demo)

A short demo of my new freebie library - "microForj - Mourning Violin".

Derived from BigCat's "SSO Solo Violin" (originally created by Matt Westlund as part of the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra), it also features Big Bob's WIPS scripting for realistic legato and superb glide.  For only a 14 mb library, it has a wonderful, poignant sound.

Also making appearances are three other microForj libraries - "Fiedler Tin Whistle", "Van Houzen Trumpet", and "Melodic Sopranos".

The library is available here: 
http://goo.gl/wySM7X

And the score for this demo is available here:
http://goo.gl/H8h9Mj

Those Small Voices, Now Stilled - microForj.Mourning Violin (demo)

Product Website -- http://www.beladmedia.com/site2015/giovani-revive/

Score -- http://goo.gl/mssYMp

Another terrific library from Bela D Media.  As usual, simple to use and easy to get a convincing sound from.  Try layering it with any other choir to give the phrasing a serious reality boost.   When played together, the boys and girls choir have a great extended range (for OO's, AH's, etc.) and blend seamlessly.

Like Bela D's "V Alto Choir", Giovani's choirs are best suited to mid tempo/slow, stately, and ethereal pieces.  Don't forget the vocal FX patches, which contain some of the creepiest phrases and rhymes ever uttered by human children.  At least I think they were human.  All I know is that my soul begins to freeze when I hear some of those tots emit their haunted incantations... ;-)

Rally On the Colors  - Giovani Revive Boys Choir (Bela D Media Official Demo)

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

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)

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


Grinding The Gears (ImpactSoundworks.ShreddageDrums Unofficial Demo)

Here's another terrific freebie from Ivy Audio...

http://www.ivyaudio.com/ClareSolo

Undone (IvyAudio.ClareV2 Demo)

Divertimento#3

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

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

The Undoing Of A Thing Once Done (Bravura Scoring Brass - Ensemble Patches Demo)

Trying an experiment to breath some more life into the Kontakt Factory Orchestral Samples using Big Bob's WIPS scripts.

This is a short piece layering the Notion strings with the Kontakt strings.  One thing I really don't like is that Kontakt lacks a 2nd Violin section (or rather, has only a 14 piece 2nd Violin section and no 18 piece 1st Violin section).

I'm basically pleased with the results - the WIPS legato is particularly effective in the doublebass section, even with interval leaps as wide as a fourth and fifth.

The Silent Ones Hunt At Night

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)

A piece I hope to re-orchestrate to fit into the Solarian Suite some day.  

It's for 8 clarinets and percussion, and borrows heavily from Alexander Courage's work on the original Star Trek TV series.

I'll leave it to y'all to figure out which bits I lifted and and which bits I stole.  And the other bits that I pinched.

The Orbit Of Chiron - Perihelion and Aphelion

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)

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

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

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

Ensemble and Chamber Works

kmlandre