This is what I'd like to hear! This is amazing for one of someone's first actual full-on classical compositions. Or just amazing in general. I hope to hear something like this in DYNAMO in the future :) There's a few times where the tempo changes in a weird way. Actually in a good way. I like that you have your own style. Like your post-rock stuff, and your electronic stuff. It's very different, and often melodic and with unique sounds. Sometimes with your post-rock it sounds like you use things that aren't conventional instruments, which I love. Actually your album Centuries were the first time I got exposed to post-rock, and I'll be forever happy that I bought that! :)

10. Soft Note & Sokpb Avabodha — Last Day

When your heart breaks... do you let go of a part of yourself? 
A fragment of joy set adrift, within yet without 
Like some cherished memento, hidden away in the attic 
Waiting to be found again 

Or do you hold tightly onto that broken piece? 
Twisting and molding it, until you can make it fit again 
Never lost, just transformed 

These pieces remain a part of you 
To find them and to hold them means to reach out and touch them 
To prick your skin on their points and feel their sharp edges 
To spend time with them, to know their shape 
And to regard them without judgment 

To allow yourself both grief and compassion 

To allow yourself humanity 

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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” 
― Jalal al-Din Rumi 

“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. 
I can't say goodbye.” 
― China Miéville, The Scar 

“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.” 
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head 

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Available for high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more over at Bandcamp (free or name your price):
https://sorenlaulainen.bandcamp.com/track/convalescence

credits
released December 6, 2016 
Composed, orchestrated and mixed by Soren Laulainen. 
www.sorenlaulainen.com 

Special thanks to the Seattle Composers Alliance for organizing the reading and recording session, to Stan LePard for proofreading my score, and to Michaud Savage for additional orchestration during the reading session. 
www.seattlecomposers.org 

Andrew Foster - violin 
Terri Sandys - violin 
Seth May-Patterson - viola 
Nick Pozoulakis - cello 
Samantha Bosch - flute 
Evan Evanovich - oboe 
Dexter Stevens - clarinet, bass clarinet 
Christian Pincock - trombone 

Cover artwork by Cassie Murphy. 
www.kittycassandra.com 

Recorded October 30th, 2016, at The Royal Room, Seattle, WA. 
www.theroyalroomseattle.com 

Mastered by Rachel Field at Resonant Mastering, Seattle, WA. 
www.resonantmastering.com

Convalescence

Soren Laulainen started composing film scores when he was in high school. His music varies in style and genre, borrowing influences from ambient electronica, symphonic orchestra, post-rock and trip-hop. The results are strikingly emotive and cinematic in tone; music that creates its own imagery.

Convalescence

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