Having fun testing out Will Gregory's lovely 1975 Eminent Solina String-Ensemble following some repairs after it let the smoke out...

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2021.

1975 Eminent Solina String Ensemble: Somewhat Fugued...

16 string instruments playing in different tempo layers each, continuous changes of pitch-, tempo-, and dynamic relations.

Turn

This suite follows the shape of a mind moving from first light into calm and then into renewed motion. The opening movement leans into warmth and memory, where familiar turns in the harmony meet a quiet blues thread carried by the lower voices. The center settles into a gentler world, built on slow patterns and soft colors that ease the breath and steady the thoughts. The final movement lifts everything forward again, drawing on dance rhythms and shared lines to carry the players toward a bright, collective finish. Written for friends gathering to play, it’s music about awakening, resting, and rising together.

Adam Sweet Suite No 1 Op 1: 1st Movement: Awakening

Adam Sweet Suite No 1 Op 1: 2nd Movement: Reverie

Adam Sweet Suite No 1 Op 1: 3rd Movement: Release

Adam Sweet Suite No 1 Op 1: Coda

To get a realistic idea of an orchestra you should play al the different parts of instruments, certainly not copying or quantize them. So I took 8 different violons 1, 10 violins 2, 8 viola's, 8 celli, 8 basses and three flutes, one alt flute, french horn, bassoon, tuba, harp and played all the different parts. I positioned the sections with altiverb. All strings are from Audio Modelling VST, played with breath control TEC. I arranged this beautiful song of Gershwin. Listen with headphone or hi-fi for the best results.

Embraceable You (performer Ad van Nederpelt)

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Nikolaus Gerszewski is a trained visual artist and self-trained composer of experimental music, born 1964 in Hamburg, currently living in Budapest, Hungary, where he has been teaching experimental soundproduction at the university of fine arts, since 2014. 

"The term ‘experimental music‘ means to my understanding, music that results from an experimental arrangement. The notation follows a procedure model, which substitutes the compositional decision making process. Depending on the listener’s mindset the sounding result may be found intersting or boring, beautiful or annoying. I have never been very much interested in sound as such, or even beauty as such, whatever that means. The sound of music is the trace of a thought process, and all that matters, is that the idea takes shape as clearly as possible." Since 2021 Nikolaus is a member of the composer's collective Frog Peak Music

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
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..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

Actually I am a piano-musician by profession, but I discovered the huge possibilities of music designing with a computer.  I like to compose in very different styles like classical, pop, filmmusic, hardrock, synth rock, jazz, tango, etc. I hope you'll enjoy it and I do appreciate practical, and especially serious criticism as well.
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-Albert Einstein

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