My fingerstyle version of Norwegian Wood on a steel string guitar.

Norwegian(ish) Wood

An original composition. Inspired by the movie Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring.

Think I recorded this one with the microphone on my knee.

Contemplation in Blue

A harp, an accordion, a contrabass and a little bit of guitar to entertain people during midsummer's evening in the Bavarian mountains

None of the musicians played with each other previously. A really enjoyable evening

04 - Alpenmusik

An experiment to create the evolving textures and forms you may hear in a Spitfire Audio evo grid/EMS VCS3 system with sounds/samples coming back and forth. I wanted to try this with some of the cheaper or free options available from Spitfire in preparation of one day owning some of the Evo grid VSTS (such as the awesome sounding Chamber Evolutions!)

I created 4 separate tracks using the following:
Arc String Textures - Vn and Cello
Spitfire Labs Frozen Strings - Harmonics
Spitfire Labs Scary Strings + Performance Samples River Harp (still free I think!)
Spitfire Labs Vc 'The Frozen String'

On these tracks I also added:
My Daw's default delay plugin (a different delay length for each track, no delay on the cello)- gonna buy U-He's Colour Copy soonish!
Soundtoys Little Plate

I armed all the tracks at once and explored the sounds through a couple of chords, the mod wheel was used to bring in the dynamics a little throughout and I placed certain elements higher or lower on the keys so 1 or 2 notes were able to be solo'd if I needed them (usually in the bass). 

I hope this helps to inspire others to give stuff a go with what they have, maybe as a warm up to that particular instrument or sound you want to achieve!

Form

Pianogo1

After taking a bit of time off thought it was time to return to making some music. 

Sometimes a rest is all you need before getting back into the groove of things.

Pretty Jazzed

A track inspired by all of the anime vhs stuff I used to watch as a kid/young teen growing up.

In the uk early/mid 90s this was basically just The Guyver, Ghost in the Shell, Akira and maybe Battle Angel Alita/ Appleseed double pack (fist bump to those that remember the double packs!).

Mostly U-he Diva mixed with some samples from various field recordings (plenty of reverb here and there!!). Had fun making this!

Welcome_2_Oedo

Testing a patch I built in Reaktor

My own reaktor patch +:
softube saturator
eventide blackhole
soundtoys primaltap

Oncelost

This isn't intended for any form of release, just trying to practice more with vocalists and some of my beatmaking.

Acapella from Victor Vaughn / DOOM.

Samples and beat etc my own! Still needs some work and laying out but just a good way to practice leaving spaces and such.

ChangeThaiBeat - beat study

This has been a rough year and I think many of us haven't been that creative. I've gathered all the sketches I've been 'happy enough' with and had more than I thought.

Keep creative
Stay Safe
Be there for others when you can

I look forward to improving & growing in 2021

Beats from 2020

Photography, Film and Music in no particular order

LGreatorex

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