03-24-2021, 01:08 PM
(03-24-2021, 12:29 PM)Chris Spyratos Wrote:(03-23-2021, 01:47 PM)Terry93D Wrote: Thank you so much. That is maybe the best thing you could have said in praise, because, while I am confident in the orchestration, it took effort to meld together the nautical opening idea w/ the later arpeggiated section, and I was not certain the seams wouldn't show.
(I have also realized that in correcting the name of "Executioner King" that the link provided doesn't work. Here is the correct link: https://soundcloud.com/tfairchildmusic/executioner-king)
I admit that I only gave the executioner king just one listen after navigating through your soundcloud to find it. However I came back to Departing for the world because it had a quality I admired. Listening now to the executioner king a second time I can tell it has some serious and dense arranging and composing work. I don't know if you used the same template/procedure for the two tracks but Departing for the world sounds quite more realistic and fresh. Also, do you compose in a notation editor and then move to DAW or straight into DAW?
I used very roughly the same template; however, the strings in "Departing for the World" are LASS Lite 2, whereas the strings in "Executioner King" are from Best Service's Complete Orchestral Collection's String Essentials. There's also considerably less going on in "Departing," the orchestration is very sparse and deliberate, whereas it's much thicker in "Executioner." I'm proud of both (the quieter section w/ the winds and muted trumpets I am especially pleased with) but "Departing" is a better piece.
I compose straight into the DAW, though I sometimes sketch ideas out in MuseScore..
