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Andre
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Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 165

Posted 6/26/2007 6:25 AM (GMT -5)

Hi!
Here is the first song of my collection of Orchestral Songs. It is called Verzweiflung and based on the poem by Albert Ehrenstein.
Because my web space on my homepage is full, I decided to use an free web server for this file, here is the link:

http://www.box.net/shared/v60fxln6de

greetings!

André, Sweden

A.L. Morrison
Pianist/Composer

Date Joined Dec 2006
Total Posts : 317

Posted 6/28/2007 10:41 PM (GMT -5)

I love the gentle ending, and how it feels like a gentle lullaby, but turns into a suspensful nightmare. I enjoy your choice of instruments, because they completely fit what you, and the listener wants to hear from the song. The theme that the song is circled around catches my ear and makes me feel like something horrible may happen at any moment. And then, as you think it is going to build up, silence falls, and it's over. Wonderful. I am dying to hear more of you.

~ A.L. Morrison: Pianist; Composer

Soundclick Website: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=702561

Cattie
Temple University

Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 1740

Posted 6/29/2007 1:55 AM (GMT -5)

This sounds very Williamsesque to me, almost in the style of the soundtrack to Jurassic Park (listen to the beginning titles and some of the later, darker tracks)... the way Williams uses the four note motive in short, abruptly-ending ideas is exactly what I'm getting from this piece, and I like it very much!!

Andre
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Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 165

Posted 6/30/2007 5:37 AM (GMT -5)

Thanks Aaron for your nice words. I am working on the 5 other orchestral songs, playing them part by part into Garageband/Logic express. I have some problems with finding special effects like flatterzunge for the flute and tuba and harmonics for the strings so I probably have to give them normal sounds. Do you have experience with making theme in Logic or Garageband?

Andre
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Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 165

Posted 6/30/2007 5:39 AM (GMT -5)

Hi Cattle!
I do know Williams work of course and listened a lot to his scores, so I am sure that his sound will show up in my music. This songs though was written many years ago, about 25 when I never had hear of him. But I wrote it for piano and voice that time, the orchestration itself if made last year. So maybe his dinosaurs are hiding inside it somewhere. Thanks for listening!

André

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