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  • Remembering Cecil (Dimension horns demo)

    G
    G
    Thought I'd post this demo: 
     
    As the title says, it's a tribute to Cecil the Lion, brutally killed a few weeks ago, as was talked about in the medias. 
     
     
    More info: The demo is dedicated to dimension horns
  • T
    T

    Great as usual, Guy!

    Mark
  • Cyril BlancC
    Cyril BlancC

    Very nice 
  • S
    S

    The first 55 seconds of this piece is very nice.

    I love the motif that you assigned to Cecil. Very fitting and I can see the motion picture in my head, because of this.

    However, since you stated that this is a demo, there could be some more refinements applied to the arrangement, IMHO.
    And what arrangement could that be?

    It's up to you. And only you can decide this.

    The hardest thing for a composer to do, is to judge themselves, and then go back and make changes.

    In the end though, it's the best thing that you could ever do.

    I offer this example of an arrangement that I did, just because I wrote it that way:

    https://soundcloud.com/skyy38/fields-of-white-with-pierre
  • W
    W

    Guy, that's a beautiful piece.  The horns sound amazingly natural and expressive. 
  • M
    M

    Beautiful music. The strings are Dimension Strings?
  • G
    G

    Thanks William! I was happy with the horn sounds as well, nice to show a horn quartet in an orchestral piece. Keep writing great music.

    Thanks Michael! Most of the time I use Dimension strings only, and sometimes it's 90% dimension completed with the other strings library. I the case of Cecil, I believe it was 100% dimension, but I'm not sure, can't remember.

     

    and thanks also Mark and Cyril! 
  • J
    J

    Hi Guy,

    Most good music originates from strong emotions. This is absloutely the case here, but without any melodrama. It is strong music, perfectly realised with powerful horns and expressive strings in a superb balance. I'm particularly fond of the orchestral depth and the speaking instruments coming to the front very clearly. Some will describe this piece as 'epic', but I hate that term, it's more like strong emotions coming to live and touch us all, without words, without an explanation, without images. You have spoken through sounds, themes and imagination.

    Wonderful!

    Max
  • A
    A

    A rather late response....

    Hi Guy,

    Beautiful.

    I felt this is a good place to add a comment about your demos on the VSL site. Apart from very creative writing, they sound, consistently, the most realistic among all others. You seem to bring out the true abilities of this amazing library. Listening to your demos I rarely feel that they are not a real performance. Although others have argued, for many valid reasons, that realism is not what one always strives for, to me thats the most important. After all, these are sampled from real instruments. Unless one intentionally creates an artifical sound, it has to replicate a good live performance (in my opinion).

    Thank you for the amazing work.

    Best

    Anand
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