New demo "milestones" online

[herb]

I've just added five new demos to our demosection

First one, a brilliant harp concertino,
Sakura Concertino buy Guy Bacos.
Guy did a lot of research to keep the harp part playable for live performances. Hopefully we can hear this piece live on concert stages in the future.

http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=4914

Half way to India also buy Guy Bacos
is an intimate and lovely chamber piece for a small ensemble.

http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=4915


Jay Bacal sent us the final rendering of the "percussion milestone"
Ionisation by Edgar Varese

http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=4917


Jay did also a virtuos arrangement for bass trombone
New Orleans by Eugene Bozza

http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=4916


Andreas Olszewski, he is responsible for the Percussion editing at VSL and he also studies composition at the Vienna Musikkonservatorium, wrote a piece in modern style for percussion ensemble (five players)

http://www.vsl.co.at/Player2.aspx?Lang=13&DemoId=4918


thanks to everybody forthis excellent demos
Herb

[JBacal]

Andreas-- Great! Varese would be proud [:D]. Excellent mix too.

Guy-- I thoroughly enjoyed Sakura. Reminds me of the impressionists' fascination with orientalism. Loved some of the fluttering figures using string harmonics and flute (at least that's what I think it is).

Best,
Jay

[Beat Kaufmann]

Guy, Jay and Andreas
I spend some satisfied time with all the new demos. The Sakura Concertino and the percussion demos gave me particular pleasure.

Thanks to all of you for your great work [:D]

All the best
Beat Kaufmann

[mathis]

Andreas, just listened to your piece. Especially the second half is great!

[andi]

thanks for the kind words. varese would be proud? [:D] he and especially "ionisation" is a great inspiration for me. jay, i also liked your version of ionisation. one can rarely hear it played so flawlessly. [[;)]]
congratulations also to guy for your beautiful harp concertino.
i also enjoyed the other new demos.
that's so great about vsl. if done properly, it's all about the music and not "real" or "fake".

best wishes
andreas (= andi)
vienna symphonic library, percussion editing

[Guy Bacos]

Great percussion demos!! [[:D]]

Trombone, very realistic! [[:D]]

Jay,

about the siren, is a specific pitch indicated or how does that work, and length?

[DaveTubaKing]

Another fine batch of demos.

The Bass Trombone sounded fantastic - excellent sample set beautifully manipulated.

[JBacal]

Guy-- in the score the length of the sirens is indicated and the dynamics of the hairpins are specified. The pitches are not specifically indicated but I believe that the pitch tends to go higher the louder the dynamics (could be wrong about this).

Best,
Jay

[Guy Bacos]

hairpins? Please explain.... [*-)]

[JBacal]

hairpins: a crescendo marking immediately followed by a decrescendo marking. <>


Best,
Jay

[Mephisto]

Maestro...Master Bacos...i am asking myself ( well..he had a date with a harpist..)
ok..ok..just kidding...but...it sound like you know how to play the harp...oops..
sorry i got one thing...you perfomed the Sakura demo with VI...hummm
the sound bank is a fraction of the real performance and you made it sound
like the real one...so....BRAVO...!

keep going Guy !

PS: ok..ok...we are talking to much about emulation here...Sakura is not just
a Harp flight simulation..but a f...great piece of original music

[Mephisto]

Jay...well..i am very impress about the accuracy of Ionisation...Varèse is such a bunch of details and you got it !


Guy....Half way to India... the texture of that original composition is up to Maurice Ravel orchestration level...

Mephisto
[6]

[Mephisto]

hey.. wake up...we got great demossss here ...do you know how long it take
to make a demo for VI.... i don°t know...but as a user of pro edition i am very
impress about the quality of the demo here...it take time to master the VI and
make music with a computer so...Bravo...for all the great demo we got here

Mephisto [6]

[Guy Bacos]

Mephisto!

Goodness, that was a shocker! Glad you enjoyed it.

Ok, you're wise to me, that was the whole idea of writing a harp concertino to meet a diva harpist and seduce her.... I'm still recovering from my injuries [:'(]


Seriously, it is very tricky writing for the harp. ex. you cannot have 3 sharps in one measure and 4 flat in the next. many many things to consider.

and that compliment about Ravel's orchestration, I hope your weren't drunk when you wrote it because what a huge compliment!

[Esmeralda]

Hye Guy

Sakura is pure artistry. i'v heard your other works too and are all great - but this one excells. honestly, it truly conveys the fact that you were aware of harpists, their needs and their discomforts when they are asked to performed more piano suitable works. hope you understand my point. but moreover it excells in its composition, themes and beauty of sound, which above all is the most important factor

as a harpist i look forward to the possibility of hearing (maybe performing [:P]) the work....i feel its a definite jewel for harp literature... so keep going strong.

i'm still worried however on what could have caused you such injuries [[:)]] i hope you were not lost in some Tchiakovsky cadenzas and got attacked by a SWAN... lake [[:)]]

[Guy Bacos]

@Esmeralda said:

i'm still worried however on what could have caused you such injuries [[:)]] i hope you were not lost in some Tchiakovsky cadenzas and got attacked by a SWAN... lake [[:)]]

Well all I can say is, I now know what the dying swan felt like... [:O]ops:

Hey Thanks Esmeralda!

For anyone interested to know, Esmeralda is a young concert harpist. It was while researching the harp I came across her kind help, she always found time in between her flights to correspond with me answering all my questions. It also seems she may be giving the world premiere of Sakura Concertino, at least I'm hoping. [:D]

ps I'm also hoping it will be injury free.... [*-)]

[Esmeralda]

Injury Free???

Don't worry - i was reported on The Times as a "comely young harpist". but mind it - the Gargoyles of Notre Dame Chatedral will protect me in case of war [:D]

[Guy Bacos]

What I didn't tell you esma is that while writing this work in a japanese temple while in Japan I traded with a buddha, I think it was the buddha of Shichifukujin, a permission license of Sakura. I have now the Seven Lucky Gods of Japan on my side...

[mpower88]

[[:|]] What did you trade!?

Just speaking of Sakura Concertino for a minute, I told Guy the first time I heard this that as a performance, and in terms of the musicality of the piece this one in that and many other ways really does excell among his demos as much as I love the others, it just feels very finished and complete, but what really got me was the string "sound" he achieved, it's really fantastic in my opinion, and despite the fact that I and many others have attributed good string sounds as being down to the mix I can saftley say that Guy proved me very wrong in this case, because those strings came to me sounding just awesome, and I found the best I could do was make sure I didn't take away from that sound rather than create it - so I was wrong, it is largely down to orchestration, use of the string sounds, and in this case, the mix itself was really just a necessary completion of the sound but not responsible for it. That hollywood string sound at the end, I just hope anyone who listens to the piece listens right through and hears that final string theme because it's 'sound' is really a milestone for virtual orchestration and it is certainly one of many sounds that I know people have been trying and wanting to achieve for some time but never succeeded like this. For me in this peice the strings are as much a feature as the Harp in fact in terms of what I am listening to.

Miklos.

[mathis]

After Miklos comments I made it through the whole piece (honestly the piece is much too sweet for my taste) and yes, it is really well written. The strings sound great.