A selection of my orchestral and orchestral/choir works...

Orchestral & Choir Works

Works that heavily feature vocal and/or choir elements...

Vocal/Choir Pieces

Cinematic

Spotlight Playlist

For No Particular Reason

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

The final version of a piece inspired by a small bit of game soundtrack I overheard on my wife's iPad, for whom this is dedicated to and about (no, my wife, not the iPad!).

This was a fun experiment technically speaking as it was the first piece where I layered the various Miroslav and Notion sections together, including a giant double string section.

In the Garden of Faeries (final)

The final version of Solarian's 3rd movement...

Solarian Suite: 3 - Blue In The Black (Neptune) (final)

Solarian Suite: 5 - A War of Scars (Uranian Moons - Ariel, Umbriel, and Miranda)

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

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

Score -- http://goo.gl/ijT3dZ

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... ;-)

Mary Go Round - Giovani Revive Girls Choir (Bela D Media Official Demo)

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)

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

http://www.ivyaudio.com/ClareSolo

Undone (IvyAudio.ClareV2 Demo)

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

A delightful, delicate charming and appealing piece of solo Piano music that would be useful as a theme or for underscoring. 2 min. 50 sec. At 100 bpm. Genre suggestions: Romance, Drama, Classic. Instrumental, Themes, Wedding Music
This track can be licensed or purchased through AudioSparx at
http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/search/home_srchpost.cfm?topsearch=1&target=David+Berlin&lsmeth=2

Bittersweet Theme (Piano Solo)

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)

http://xtant-audio.com/product/model-brass/

Jupiter Chorale - Kurt Landre

Lucky Lou And Jinxy Jenkins (final)

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)

Afterstorm - Kurt Landre

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

VSCO Trailer - 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

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’

V CHOIR Concealed Among the Fog 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