Medley of 3 short pieces that seem to fit together. There are lots of tempo and rhythmic changes in this one! The first part is quite weird, skip to 1:20 for the second part in 7/4. The third part starts at 2:58 a simple round in 4/4. 

Technical notes: recorded on Cubase. Drums: Toontrack EZDrummer. Harpsichord: Modart Pianoteq. Rhythm guitar: Applied Acoustic Systems. Lead guitar: Roli Equator. All wind instruments: Audio Modeling. Organ: GSi VB3 II. Ambience: Inspired Acoustics Inspirata

Dramatic Chromatic - Old mix listen to alternate version

In a cave in Jotunheim the giant wolf Fenrir is tied to the ground by the magical chain Gleipner. A sword is stucked through its mouth to prevent it from biting the Gods. Every day you can hear its rage and mourns. Endless torment and suffering. Who would have thought that this mighty creature, who are destined to swallow Odin himself at Ragnarok, once was an innocent little wolf pup suckling at the breasts of its mother Angrboda? Let the story of Fenrir remind us that even the most broken and vicous beings were innocent when they came from the womb. It is the scars of life  that shape us, not whether we were born God, man or wolf.

Lullaby for Fenrir (Featuring Jan Civil from KVR)

Raise, fallen Einherjars. The Valkyries have left us at the foot of Bifrost, the rainbow road to Asgard. Let us enjoy our last travel in life until we face the gates at Bifrost´s end.

The Gates at Bifrost's End

Instruments used on this demo:

1. Xsample Woodwinds Bass Clarinet sample (legato non vibrato patch, and in the second part of the tune the vibrato patch)
2. Xsample Brass - Tuba
3. Xsample Keyed Instruments - Hohner Gola accordion
4. Xsample Tuned Percussion - Marimbaphone 
5. Xsample Tamara - vocal pads and mouth percussion

Little demo made exclusively with Xsample libraries. No click track used, no quantization nor any MIDI editing was done. Objective of this little composition is to demonstrate the "plonkability" of the Xsample woodwind instruments. Hence just the one (legato) patch was used for the entire recording (both sustained and short notes) and it was all recorded in one take.

Xsample Woodwinds - Quick demo of the Bass Clarinet patch (no keyswitching)

My son and I made this for fun on a sunday afternoon. It's a mix of Hedwig's Theme, some Mando shakuhachi flutes and the "Hey" choir from the Boba Fett theme. We had tons of fun making this.

Unmixed. Unmastered. Lots of smiles. Started around 14.30 PM and finished 17 PM because we promised to cook dinner ;-)

Instruments used:

- UVI Falcon - Simon Stockhausen Glockenspiel

- Chris Hein Ensemble Strings Small Ens tremolo 

- Chris Hein Ensemble Strings Cello spiccato

- Chris Hein Piccolo flute trills

- Chris Hein Bb Clarinet flatterzunge

- UVI Falcon - World Suite 2 Shakuhachi

- Chris Hein French Horn

Hedwig meets Boba Fett (made by Kees and Temme)

For brass quintet.

I. Johnny's Not Coming Home
II. Prelude To The Afternoon Tea Of A Bear

Live excerpts are from a performance by Brass over Bridges.
Excerpt 1 is from the start of the first movement.
Excerpt 2 is from the middle of the second movement.

The Abyss And The Apogee

"I think the main legacy of Voyager is to, in fact, have opened up our solar system in a way, which was not possible before the space age. It revealed all our neighbors in the solar system." - Ed Stone, Voyager Project Scientist

On November 12, 1980, Voyager 1 began its encounter with Saturn with a flyby of Titan. It would remain in the Saturnian system for 2 days before heading on its Extended Mission; nearly 42 years later it would cross the heliopause and become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space.

Beyond the Planets is the first part of my Formation III concept. I was hoping to release it as a full album in 2023, but due to the scope of the album and life circumstances, I still have a ways to go. I also thought that it might be nicer to have 3 or 4 reasonable-length albums rather than a giant one that went longer than 2 hours. Even I start to get sick of these songs by the time we hit Jupiter!

Audio clips are used freely from the NASA archives.

Formation III.i: Beyond the Planets

Voyager

Guess the synth and win a copy of the soundset on release day March 9.

An Autumns Tale - Guess The Synth

All sounds, except Drums/Percussion, from Synthmaster Player.

Needs a lot more time spent on the drums, and the mix.

Within Me (Without You)

Remix entry for the Eventide Itchycoo Park Remix Contest 2019.

Eventide - Itchycoo Challenge (Darren Prescott Remix) Eventide Remix Contest

Composing soundtrack & electronic music since 2006, using FL Studio with various software synthesizers.

Voyager

ShadowsOfLight

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