Weekend Orchestra Thing

Weekend Orchestra Thing by Gamma Goblin

I threw this together on Saturday. For the last few weeks I've been wanting to try some more "orchestral" stuff... counterpoint and all those other buzz words. I guess it started around the time hydlide asked for people to submit musical compositions to grace the intro of a movie he was making. I would have wanted to do a traditional "big score" piece but since I'm shit at that I shyed away. The desire for that type of music stayed with me though and it manifested itself on Saturday last.

It started off as a string quartet but I got bored at fleshed it out with string sections and percussion. All the musical ideas where just tacked on together in a linear fashion, and they were done purely for practice rather than musical beauty, but it comes together quite well at times. Its missing woodwind sections, which is kinda annoying. I did attempt introducing woodwind motifs later but this just muddied it up.

While it's not great, I am encouraged at the kind of results you can achieve within a relatively short time-span. Composed on a laptop away from home, without a keyboard in sight, which has a lot of benefits. Oh and it's all done with standard Reason 4 Orkester refill.

I decided to upload the Reason RNS file, just in case anybody wants to have a look at it themselves: http://www.box.net/shared/523509yskj

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