About a month ago, I was playing around on the piano, and I came up with a fragment of melody that I couldn’t get out of my head. I played with it, twisting it around, pushing it in different directions, seeing what I could do with it. Ultimately, I turned it into a full piece of music, and this is the result.
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You can also listen to one of the (early) improvisations I played on this theme by downloading the recording I made on my phone here.
I am so excited, I’m giggling like a schoolgirl. I just unwrapped a package that I received from Germany: Native Instruments’ Komplete. It’s installing now.
In the (large and encouragingly heavy) box, I found the following exciting items:
- Eight (yes, eight!) DVDs full of awesomeness
- Seven hefty printed manuals (in a boxed seat, no less)
- Four large (5″x1″) ‘Native Instruments’ stickers
- Ten small (2.5″x0.5″) ‘Native Instruments’ stickers
- A neck clip thing, with a very shiny stainless steel clip and detacher thinggy
In terms of software, Komplete means that my Native Instruments collection now comprises
- Kontakt 2
- Kontakt 3
- Kontakt 4
- Battery 3
- Guitar Rig
- FM8
- Reaktor
- Massive
- Absynth
I am SO EXCITED!!!
My first track in quite a while. :/ This one is a bit of a different from my usual stuff (although I tend to say that a lot nowadays… Hmm…). Not quite sure why I had such a long hiatus, but hopefully this track spells the end of it. We’ll see.
I made use of some of the samples that my friends at ModPlug Central gave me for a wedding present, as well as mutilating some of my other sample libraries.
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As you might have noticed, if you listen to much of my orchestral music, I really like writing epic, syncopated scores with great big horn melodies (and little flute ones) that float above rapid, percussive strings and brass. Well, here’s another example of that. 
This piece is a rondo in D minor. Let me know what you think!
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