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Atonal Music and Video Games
The Second School of Vienna etablished and organized the atonal idiom and its main structure of compositional possibilities. Atonal music and atonal techniques are featured in one of the most influential games and used by influential composers, sometimes being the whole idiom of the soundtrack : Silent Hill, Dead Espace, Bloodborne, The Legend of Zelda (Majoras…
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FILM SCORING: Easy and Effective study
Film scoring is not about knowing how to sound like John Williams, it is about understanding how the music of JW helps the story at some given point in time. 1.An easy and effective exercise that you can do a lot is to select a moment you like in some film production and try to…
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8 Professional Workflow Types for Classical Composition with Logic Pro/DAW
DAW WORKFLOW THEORY & ACTION TYPES (Overview Lesson) I studied (and study) the creative proccess of almost all types of sucessful and great composers. In this single Zoom 2 hr. lesson + correction/feedback of exercises I give you a fast overview for the many daw workflow types that I studied and tested over the years,…
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Beta EastWest Keyswitch Orchestral Template for “Concert Mockup” in Logic Pro’s Score Editor + VEP
A DREAM OF YOU – now I can say I am almost satistifed with the new template I am preparing to sell, since i could not refrain my self to go into the waters of my beloved Rachy (-maninoff) and check what it does. Actually it is just a section of my full template, and…
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Marketing and Workflow
How does our workflow as classical composers start to be affected by companies? Since I can’t do a good video about this right now without risking some stupid statements I prefered to just write my hypothesis, that is actually a big conclusion after years in this stuff: It looks that software companies have more influence…
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SAMPLE TALK: Current Thoughts on „Classical Concert Sound“
SAMPLE TALK: the classical natural concert sound As you know i had a radio broadcast for mockups. I have been compiling the best CLASSICAL mockups ever made. One of the future videos will be about this topic. I noticed that cinematic studio strings and VSL are always there, next to the Spitfire orchestras. I think…
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Theme with two time signatures
This beautiful melody is very my way: simple but rich. Especially interesting is the answer of the theme (I call it big consequent; you might call it the „B“ section) changing the time signature. This is enough to cause a new interest in the recapitulation of the first section. Sing and play it! https://youtu.be/F1cvDn_B6Kw?si=jMVOsJsSV_mdeyVR
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Thanks for the new Patreon Westwater!
Here is a souvenir
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The concept of “Realism” in Mockup
Alone the concept of realism needs a whole lesson: we want a good mockup and good mixing. The realism of the copy is relative to the reference. If the reference is you as a listener in the hall, this is one thing.If your reference is a mixed soundtrack in a genre that sounds anyway more…
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The “ Superman” Theme
Topic:The role of the position of the chord in the form and how it allows dissonances that other positions don’t – The modern thinking in tonal music – The influence of Richard Strauss in epic openings.