Recorded at East Malling Church on the 18th April 2015. Performed by the East Malling Singers, Singers from Benenden Cobham Hall, Kent Youth Choirs and Chamber Orchestra. Also  featuring Sarah Vincent as soprano solo.

Reducing the piece from full orchestral score to a chamber group was a challenge but I think it came across well enough thanks to great, emotive performances from all the musicians. Thanks one and all.

Conductor: Ciara Considine
Organ: Nick Bland
Violin: Antony Dennant
Cello: Fraser Bowles
Oboe: Sue Purton
Trumpet: Emily Bristow
Horn: Sam Peate
Percussion: Jonathan Vincent

A magical performance, thanks again to all those involved, it was a moving moment!

This Battle. First Live Performance 2015

Andy Blaney's incredible demo showcasing BML Bone Phalanx in all its wonder. 

Kraken - Andy Blaney

Daddy & Daughter date ... took Naomi to the studio to record a cover for a bit of fun.  I put down a quick piano track and got Naomi to lay down vocals and backing vocals in the studio. 
I shoved a quick string arrangement on too, hope you like

(BTW no editing or tuning was used on Naomi's vox or BVs ... did it old stylee)

Blackbird [Naomi Kennedy]

Testing new sample libraries from Orchestral Tools. Still composing in Pro Tools 11 and VE Pro.

Fairytale - Shrek (mockup)

This was an early draft of a cue for a moment within Ridley Scott's movie, "The Martian". If you know my main theme from that score, you'll recognize it here, but the instrumentation that is used in this demo is in stark contrast to what I ended up with in the final score.

Crossing Mars ALT from "The Martian"

Failed Launch from "The Martian"

https://soundiron.com/products/elysium-harp

Elysium Harp is a 47-string grand concert pedal harp virtual instrument library, fully compatible with the free Kontakt Player and Komplete Kontrol S-Series Keyboards by Native Instruments. We recorded this massive Lyon & Healy bronze concert harp in exquisite detail, with extended articulation choices, advanced controls, easy play-assist features and warm presence across the entire key range.

We've covered classic Finger Plucks with long sustains, deep round-robin and dynamic layering for each string. We also recorded Hard Fingernail plucks, Harmonics, Xylophonics, Bass Pedal Buzzes, plus a wide collection of natural Live Glisses in 19 scales and styles by harpist Jennifer Ellis. You'll find lots of custom ambiences, pads and unique FX presets created with the harp source to open up limitless sound design possibilities. You also have access to 3 stereo mic positions (sound board, rear ports & room) to freely mix and route, plus an advanced real-time gliss and arpeggiator sequencers, instant pedal presets for easy glissing and arpeggios, precise tone and presence shaping and a full FX rack for total creative freedom. Elysium Harp contains 12,147 samples and over 30GB of wav content. The library is compressed to 14.7 GB with NI's lossless .ncw audio format for greater resource efficiency. It works in Kontakt or Kontakt Player version 5.5.2 and later.

Jean-Gabriel Raynaud - Christmas Eve (Dressed) - Soundiron Elysium Harp

Demo for Musical Sampling's Adventure Strings

www.musicalsampling.com/

Dragon Land - Official demo for Musical Sampling's Adventure Strings

In all the haste of work and family life i forgot to post the orchestrated version. This is related to the piano sketch. Spitfire have produced a great library. I probably could have got this result with only the BHCT but chose to add Spitfire Symphonic Violins to the legato tune mid way and Spitfire Legato cello to the counter melody in the bass near the end. Hope you enjoy it

in the shardow of Bernard

The Imperial March - Midi Mockup

Experiment - Strezov Afflatus Strings.
improvised ... 1 take, 1 track played in live with expression pedal.

Some slightly jumpy dynamics, but a fantastic tool for writing expressive parts in one go.

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