This is a 3 hours composition from scratch in F-oct.
It is not very complex and I accidently cut off the tail end on export. It is more for curious reasons I made this and thought I'd share what I did in 3 hours. I think I am falling in love with the octatonic scale.

Will definitly revisit this scale.

Octatonic

A quick, simple orchestral intro I composed and mixed in about 5 hours. It was planned to be used in a upcomming stage production, but might also work nice for a game menu or such.

I do not really have proper orchestral sound packs, but this sounds OK I guess. I disslike the cymbal sound the most.

Orchestral Intro

This was an experiment in the electronic genre. Not a real success. The biggest mistake I made was trying to mix and compose at the same time. SO when I got to the actual mixing stage I couldn't get anything to sound and sit quite right.

I like the composition, rythm and movement, just not the finished mixed so much. I might revisit this one's mixing in the future.

Lock And Key

This sound is part of a two part design for a stage production I did. Please note that I do not own the music used in these designs. I only designed the sound scape and composed the scene with loose sound elements.

Telling A Story Part 2

Telling A Story Part 1

This is my first song I composed myself without any rules to follow.

As the name of the song "Fear" implies, I tried to go with a slightly darker sound. This is the purely instrumental version. There are some lyrics on paper for this one, Will try to get around to recording them ASAP.

Everything was done in cubase 6.0. This version is completely unmixed, the raw materials just threw together. Working purely in MIDI and VSTs and my tempo is set at 87bpm.

Keep an eye out if you like it. The mix down intstrumental version will be hitting my page soon. :)

Fear - Rough Draft - Work in progress

A random 3 hour composition I did from scratch without any rules set to follow. I wrote some lyrics a while back about how I feel afraid of the truth sometimes, and I felt like I needed to get some music going with the lyrics and this is what popped out.

Nothing extremely technical, or probably any good either. Seeing as this is my first full song I composed myself with almost zero music background, I am somewhat pleased with the results :).

I guess the scale is just plain and simple C major. The violins are detuned by 2 cents and the pads play a minor 3rd all the way and are detuned by 5 cents. All instrumentation comes straight from cubase. The Bass and 'pulse' sounds are slightly modified presets. The drum kit is some hard core "ambient kit". Not a majorly complex drum pattern either.

I have not listened to this on anything but studio monitors yet, so be aware of the bass content. It MIGHT be quite a bit loud. Part of the feel of the song I tried to convey.

The cord progression varies slightly but is in the lines of:
C C F F C C G F C C
C C F F C C G F C G
G C C F F C C G F C G

At some points the progression jumps octaves, but still the same notes. Also the backing violins plays a 3rd interval one octave lower than the lead violin.

Fear - Mastered (Instrumental)

Another random 3 hour composition I did. This song should have a more happy and up beat feel to it :). The song is about the journey I used to have in my dreams when I dream about some person I like, or about other happy things. It is not called nightmare ;P hahaha...

All the sounds are from cubase again. I can't remember the key of the song or the tempo. I THINK it might be in G-major or D-major.

Hope you like it :) Please comment if you have some thing on the heart :)

Dreaming Night - Mastered, Instrumental

This is a song I made in about 5 hours being constantly interrupted by other members of the family :( But it is done non the less.

The song was written with the person I love in mind. Due to some circumstances we can not be together yet, but I try my best to stay patient and keep waiting for the day we can -  Thus hoping for love to be "timeless".

I stuck to a very basic melody line and some backing synths, concentrating more on the feeling I was trying to convey rather than technique or some other element.

Also this is not really a decent mix. The virtual Instrument channels (in cubase) were used to get an opproximate level and some basic effects and processing were added directly to them. No EQ or reverb. The reverb on the sounds are from the source (Nexus).

Other information:
The song is in A-flat Minor and at 110BPM

Hope you enjoy it :)

Timeless Love - Instrumental

Once again a college track. This is one of the final, end year, compositions. The other one is still following. This falls more into the "Break Beat" genre but is somewhat a lot darker than originally anticipated. 

The idea came from a youtube video about break beat composing. The song is in F-Major I think and it is 138BPM.

Some samples are used. The only ones in need of credit is 3 samples from Nine Inch Nails - My Violent Heart.

Invisible Forces

I started in the sound industry while still in high school by joining the sound crew and quickly after that joined a professional sound company. The main focus of the company was modeling shows and competitions where I also got my feet wet in lighting, rigging, and staging. A lot of the big shows had professional performers and such which also gave me a lot of experience in live sound of performances.

Further I also wrote two plays which was performed at my school with a cast only existing of school kids from my school and one or two from other schools to fill very specific positions not otherwise filled by kids from my own school.

Currently I am studying a broad sound and music course at a private music college which covers a broad range of subjects including production, studio and live sound as well as some business aspects related to the South African market. My goal or future plans are to become a studio engineering, hopefully more specifically a mixing and or mastering engineer. I like the technical and creative side of music and sound in general. I have a hard time being creative and feel a lot of my word is just adaptations on other's work, of even only variations of other work I have done before. In this is my strength I think for becoming a good mixing engineer. You want the same thing from each song: For it to sound as good as it can. But there are no rules set in concrete. It does not require a high level of creativity, only enough to get the song to sound as good as it can, the rest is all technical.

I do not constrict myself to specific genres of music, I listen as much music as I can, from as many genres as I can. I feel just as any art, music should be respected and admired. Not judged and criticized. There are some genres of music that does not fall in my taste, but I still respect the art and artist producing it and can still find it appealing in the art form it is. Every piece takes time and dedication, and for that I shall respect every artist in his or her work.  

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