Odyssey

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   This to me is one of the most polished pieces I've listened to on this site.

      Especially the first half.   A bit too epsiodic for my tastes in the last 2 minutes.

        That said, exceptional orchestration, use of dynamics and the full range of the orchestra---something John Williams does very well (Tuba and piccolo, anyone?)--giving us a piece that is varied, expressive and coherent.

  I really like it.     

 Tell me, how did you get to this level?

This is exceptionally well done and thought through! Brilliant choice of harmony and orchestration is also good. However Last bit seems off to what's going on in the first 3 minutes, make it bigger! This piece asks to be 15 minutes long 🙂

3 hours ago, Rich said:

   This to me is one of the most polished pieces I've listened to on this site.

      Especially the first half.   A bit too epsiodic for my tastes in the last 2 minutes.

 

        That said, exceptional orchestration, use of dynamics and the full range of the orchestra---something John Williams does very well (Tuba and piccolo, anyone?)--giving us a piece that is varied, expressive and coherent.

 

  I really like it.     

thank u so much man. 

3 hours ago, Rich said:

Tell me, how did you get to this level?

well, Ive never gone to school for it or been trained on it, so I don't really have a good answer to that. I guess just meditation and following my heart and joy. Oh, and listening to people's feedback has helped me a lot. I remember one person told me something like "you need to use and develop motifs, right now its just one brilliant thing after another" and that changed my perspective quite a bit. 

47 minutes ago, AlexeySavelyev said:

This is exceptionally well done and thought through! Brilliant choice of harmony and orchestration is also good. However Last bit seems off to what's going on in the first 3 minutes, make it bigger! This piece asks to be 15 minutes long 🙂

thanks and I know 😞 I shall one of these days.

Very nice. 

At first I thought it was a bit too cinematic for me but I listened on anyway and found it excellent in every respect - orchestral balance, orchestration (very varied, held my interest easily) and its episodic nature was engaging. It might as well be a professional recording of a live performance, such are the production values.

A most pleasant listen. 

Cheers.

6 hours ago, Quinn said:

Very nice. 

At first I thought it was a bit too cinematic for me but I listened on anyway and found it excellent in every respect - orchestral balance, orchestration (very varied, held my interest easily) and its episodic nature was engaging. It might as well be a professional recording of a live performance, such are the production values.

A most pleasant listen. 

Cheers.

 

thanks Quinn! 

Hi @Left Unexplained,

Very enchanting music here! (I use the word enchanting the third time but I have to use it here!) I do agree with @Rich that the passages are a bit episodic, but the orchestration obviously cover it, or rather because of the episodic quality so it's so varied here! I don't mind being Penelope to wait for your posts for long since everytime you come up with amazing music!

Henry

On 4/23/2023 at 9:19 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hi @Left Unexplained,

Very enchanting music here! (I use the word enchanting the third time but I have to use it here!) I do agree with @Rich that the passages are a bit episodic, but the orchestration obviously cover it, or rather because of the episodic quality so it's so varied here! I don't mind being Penelope to wait for your posts for long since everytime you come up with amazing music!

Henry

 

awh thanks dude. Very kind words

Your piece becomes progressively more playful as it continues, especially the ending, which is almost slapstick!

You seem to have a great natural talent for orchestration. In fact, I probably had your piece "A New Light" in the back of my mind, when I was trying to formulate my orchestration in recent compositions (especially "Elvish Dreams").

Really like your use of harmony too.

I wonder which sound libraries and DAW do you use?

Hey buddy!  I think your style of composition and orchestral writing is very cinematic.  Others have mentioned how episodic it is ... I think it's also very good at portraying different sorts of movie characters.  I think there are portions of it that lack direction and purpose (like the part with copious piano arpeggios) and even though that part is meant as a transition it feels like it's not really going anywhere nor expositing any kind of important musical material.  I am also not too crazy about the liberal use of choir - in the end it sort of fits with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" vibe that I get from that ending portion, but in many places before that I thought that the only function that the choir was serving was to give the kind of shallow impression of epicness that laymen listeners ascribe to those kinds of film tracks.  You don't automatically need choir if you want your track to sound epic or sublime imo.  If you wanted to expand on this piece (since I mentioned to you that it doesn't sound done and you agreed), you could go back to the very beginning material and vary it in some way (or if you already varied it - pick some of the other material in the track and vary that).  The piece definitely sounds like it's jumping from one idea to another, which is fitting for a cinematic track, but not so fitting for a concert piece (so it's up to you what your goal is ofc).  Thanks for sharing!

This is absolutely incredible!!! The orchestration is so interesting and the harmony is incredibly unique! Man I wish I could compose like this

I agree with everything you said Sam.
Parts of it sound like they'd work very well with an animated movie.

I made the mistake of asking which DAW was used, when it's best Left Unexplained. The clue was in the name!

8 hours ago, Alex Weidmann said:

I agree with everything you said Sam.
Parts of it sound like they'd work very well with an animated movie.

I made the mistake of asking which DAW was used, when it's best Left Unexplained. The clue was in the name!

 

hey sorry for not getting back to you! Peter just informed me more people commented haha, Im bad at checking. I use logic!

also all my orchestral sounds are east west, I have composer cloud

On 4/26/2023 at 11:39 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hey buddy!  I think your style of composition and orchestral writing is very cinematic.  Others have mentioned how episodic it is ... I think it's also very good at portraying different sorts of movie characters.  I think there are portions of it that lack direction and purpose (like the part with copious piano arpeggios) and even though that part is meant as a transition it feels like it's not really going anywhere nor expositing any kind of important musical material.  I am also not too crazy about the liberal use of choir - in the end it sort of fits with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" vibe that I get from that ending portion, but in many places before that I thought that the only function that the choir was serving was to give the kind of shallow impression of epicness that laymen listeners ascribe to those kinds of film tracks.  You don't automatically need choir if you want your track to sound epic or sublime imo.  If you wanted to expand on this piece (since I mentioned to you that it doesn't sound done and you agreed), you could go back to the very beginning material and vary it in some way (or if you already varied it - pick some of the other material in the track and vary that).  The piece definitely sounds like it's jumping from one idea to another, which is fitting for a cinematic track, but not so fitting for a concert piece (so it's up to you what your goal is ofc).  Thanks for sharing!

 

yeah choir is a crutch for sure, other people have mentioned that about other pieces too.  I do want to be able to make concert pieces, I feel like film composing has this kinda connotation of mediocrity (and I agree with it). God forbid I get into epic music lol. Thanks for giving me your take as always

On 7/3/2023 at 11:53 PM, Left Unexplained said:

also all my orchestral sounds are east west, I have composer cloud

Many thanks for the info.
That looks like a great package!

I bought Logic recently; but haven't really got into using it yet.

Will have to try, because the dynamics handling on Muse Score is really bad!

2 hours ago, Alex Weidmann said:

Many thanks for the info.
That looks like a great package!

I bought Logic recently; but haven't really got into using it yet.

Will have to try, because the dynamics handling on Muse Score is really bad!

 

honestly if u really really want to get serious about producing your own scores, there is way way way better software out there.