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

Ensemble and Chamber Works

A selection of my world music and hybrid orchestral/chamber style works...

World and Hybrid Works

Spotlight Playlist

Demo pieces for the microForj Sound Libraries...

microForj.Demos

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

A short piece for Xmas 2013 musically describing my lovely wife.

She Gazes Starward

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 - 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)

A short demo of all the various microForj Sound Libraries released to date:
"Van Houzen Trumpet"
"Melodic Sopranos"
"Fiedler Tin Whistle"
"Mourning Violin"

It also uses Karl Feuerstake's "Epic Organic Solo Floor Tom" (along with a host of other freebies), which you can find out about here:
http://www.vi-control.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40239

The score for this demo is available here:
http://goo.gl/3xhjN3

A Few Theme Thieves More - "meta demo" for various microForj sound libraries

PERC+_KurtMLandre_DancersInTheMarketSquare

Music created using Plectra Series 4: Turkish Oud, the upcoming Kontakt virtual instrument by Impact Soundworks!

Plectra Series 4: "The Ottoman in Spain" by Kurt Landre

It's the microForj.Xmas.Freebie!

I needed something church-belly to accompany a monk-style chant, which unfortunately didn't work out (well, the monk thing did, but my piece didn't). However, I thought the carillon bells turned out pretty well by themselves. It features a fun "ghostverb carillon" that adds a nice chilly ambiance. For those who care about such things, I found the samples here: http://www.pem.org/aux/sound/Westerkerk-Carillon-Sample-Library.zip 

They run a bit sharp, so they're tuned them down a bit. You may have to readjust it to taste... 

The Kontakt version of it is available here: http://goo.gl/jhuvo2 

And the score for this demo is available here: http://goo.gl/Cu6oS7 

Here's hoping y'all have some wonderful holidays! 

And many thanks to the many, many developer folks who've contributed to VI Control this year (both professional and really-wish-we-were-professionals)! 

Kurt M. Landre' 
https://www.SoundCloud.com/kmlandre 

Winter Is Come (microForj.Westerkerk.Carillon Demo)

"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)

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)

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)

Lucky Lou And Jinxy Jenkins (final)

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