Vinz R.

Milton Babbitt is very hard to perform and takes months to actually read. Pro orchestras have walked away from his music cus they can't get through it.

I am a sax player as well who does both classical and jazz. I remember liking the Creston so much when I first discovered it and then finding all the other standards such as the Tableaux, Glazunov, and so on. Now I have come across so much sax rep and played so much of it I have found many to call "favorites". As for writing sax music, I tend to include it in orchestral works but I hardly ever write a solo piece for it. Classical Sax id like to see your concerto when u finish it.

john williams also went to julliard.

Hey guys, I have lost all my music on my comp. But I still have some recent works on my soundclick site. I wrote an arrangement of America for a July 4 Sunday weekend church service. Its for soprano saxophone and string orchestra with Harp. This version is with instrument. I use an oboe to represent the sax since garritan has no sax patch. Please comment on the piece! SoundClick song info: America by Vinzane - Composer, Classical/Jazz Saxophonist.

Cool piece. It does have a sense of tragedy and hopelessness. The piece works very well to show that. But, I felt there should have been a more meditative section. If its about a guy saying bye to his family to go die in war im sure that as he leaves he will be deep in thought about his life at some point on the way. It could be having flashbacks of happy time, significant moments and such. So you could stop all the instruments at one point and out of the nowhere have a tender string chorale-like section, with no beating drum or perhaps have the drum beat occasionally with a more dramatic effect. Add to that a sorrowful soprano solo to add to the drama. This section would then represent a stop in all previous motion almost like as the warrior is preparing for war the thought of his family and life seizes him immediately. Then when the warrior comes to his senses and stops meditating on his family, the music comes back to its previous treatment(percussion, strings, etc.). Good work tho.

This would be awesome for like a CSI episode when they process evidence on their high tech equipment. I liked the overall mood of the piece. Nice refreshing moments when the piano hits some chords with seconds in them. I know it says kiss her so the idea is perhaps some romantic scene which would also work. I would add some slight variation around the end. Perhaps a change in the percussion rhythm or use a different set, or the piano theme which tends to hide in the background could also have some variation. It's up to you. Again, good work.

I agree with nikolas. You have the best library on the market dean. I myself want to buy it.

I really think you captured the sense of Freezing. The choir aah and oohs were great, the sparkling orchestration and shimmering moments(hmm...wow that feels gay to write but i dont know how else to describe it.). I can't wait to buy that EW sound library you use. It sounds great.

GPO is great, but only if you have the comp power to make it do so. My comp doesn't have the gig of RAM that one needs to use it at without it sounding funny at times. Ive made some pretty decent files tho: SoundClick artist: Vinzane - Composer, Classical/Jazz Saxophonist. They also have a website that will show you the potential of GPO on good computers.

Stuff like Garritan Personal Orchestra. Soundfont libraries are all over the net. Great piece Dean.

Thanks. I do like brassy fanfares.

the strings are in tremolo when they are playing arco. thats why it sounds disconnected.

Nice guitar playing. Have you ever played an anything by Leo Brouwer? I enjoyed your piece. There was some good repetition, such as the repetitive Bb bass ostinato which does change to the dominant F later on. If you are going to add percussion you might have to play the electric guitar to make it come through. I thought this piece also had some orchestral potential and you could team the orchestra up with the guitar and percussion like Metallica did in one of their special concerts with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Hey fellas, I haven't been here in a while and so I figured I'd drop a piece I just recently completed. Its supposed to be a theme to a space-fighter-adventure thing about a killer, awesome spaceship called Noxleo (Nightlion). Anyways, so far I have a Main Theme and a menu theme to the game. Do let me know what you think: http://minorcrisis.net/files/noxleo.mp3

lol, funny how everybody did get ticked. anyways, there are composers that use the computer to accompany an actual instrument. Babbit has done this and it is a serious area of study in composition today. However, with this you should really keep human performers in mind because you might want someone to play it someday.