I created this for the OPIA A minor challenge.  Lots of A throughout!

For Forte

This is my entry for the July 2021 Ólafur Arnalds OPIA challenge, using only samples from Pianobook.co.uk.  The reference to Kings Cross is the piano sampled from the underground station - and to my knowledge BNSF do not have a service to Kings Cross from Ballmer Yard, Seattle - unless Boris has a tunnel planned.  Quite different than anything else I've done - and I wanted to use the 1956 Tenor Horn - and it had an industrial feel to it - and Kings Cross gave the railway connection too.  
Pianobook samples
AIR Piano by Christian Henson
Urkuharmonium Orchestra Cello and Clarinet by Heikki Ketola
The English Felt Piano by Tim Didgiunaitis
Hebridean Knight Piano by Christian Henson
Subtle Clarinet by Catherine Hillier
1956 Tenor Horn by Arseniy Kunin
ARC Requim Church Organ by Angus Roberts-Carey
terminating at
Kings Cross London Underground Piano by Kelan Rooney
The railway engine beat is actually a short and low chord from the Urkuharmonium Cello

Return to Kings Cross

My entry for the August 2021 Ólafur Arnalds OPIA challenge, using only found sounds.  Door bell, clashing glasses, grass leaves with processing in Izotope RX Pro and some added fabfilter!

Lost and Found

My entry for the Ólafur Arnalds OPIA challenge with a re-working of Erla's Waltz, from Found Songs, by Ólafur Arnalds.  The original was just piano, I changed to clarinet and descant horn with strings - but returned to piano at the end.

Erla's Waltz

Opia Dune

This is my entry for the November 2021 Ólafur Arnalds' OPIA Discord group challenge. The challenge was to suggest up to 5 sample libraries and then be given 5 patches chosen at random from those libraries.  I was given Solo Soprano Operatic and Solo Descant Horn from Audio Imperia's Solo, Contra Bass Ensemble from Heavyocity's Vento, Wotan Performance from Strezov Sampling's Wotan Male Choir and finally 04 Synth Matrix - Looped Rhythms from Ólafur Arnalds' Spitfire library, Stratus.  The title doesn't mean anything - other than being a play on Genesis as in Discord we joked that all entries should be called Genesis to match Ben and Luigi's releases earlier in the month.

GenA-Cis

By A. Adam, based on an arrangement by Paul Shin

O Holy Night

This was my entry for the Ólafur Arnalds' Discord group's January challenge.  The challenge was to make an intimate piece - and my interpretation was to have just a a quintet, consisting of a piano (Native Instrument's Noire) and then Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass (from Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Orchestra - but just the leads).

Glacial

As the OPIA challenge was extended for a Month (jan/Feb) I tidied up and extended a version of the previous track - new intro and a different piano and cleaner mix (I think).

Glacial Too

This is my entry for the Ólafur Arnalds' Discord group's March April challenge.  The challenge was to make "something peaceful".  I'd just won Spitfire Audio's Thematic Trumpets so wanted to include them, so had some muted low trumpets chords behind the piano - along with some swarms later (Stratus and others) with the low base supplied by Orchestral Tool's Habitat.

LunchWithaLens

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