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concerto no. 2 in a minor for guitar and oboe - movement no. 1
(note - this same track also appears on the pureambient album SSDL1753 "music for apps: notion - an eternal album" as track 2)
track: 11
recorded: 20140322 - 20140323
duration: 3:43
(also available on the music for apps: notion eternal album)
for my second Notion composition, I threw caution to the winds, and added in a fairly daunting cast of instruments (see "track credits" below for the full list). no more simple duet, no more simple harmonies, this is full on scoring - with two days of experience.
it took me about two days to knock this into the shape that you hear here, and a couple more hours of work to iron out some mixing issues that gave me some real grief (hence, the one week delay from completing the composition, to finally uploading a week later - until today, I could not feel happy with any previous mixes - but now, I have a lovely, clean mix with the barest hint of reverb.
as I always do, I just improvised the composition of this, there is never a forward plan, but, I knew I wanted to use guitar and oboe again, for this successor to my "concerto no. 1 in e minor for guitar and oboe" composed a few years ago - not with notion, but note by note, phrase by phrase, using a guitar synthesizer. hard work, but, I loved the result, and I felt that it is now about time for a successor.
so - a new piece, this time, nominally in a minor, using guitar and oboe - other than that, I didn't have much of a plan or schematic for the piece - I just started putting notes down onto notions screen (I almost said, onto paper!) - but that is exactly what it feels like - really writing it down, dot by mysterious dot.
I learned an enormous amount in this process, and progressed to such techniques as arpeggios, triplets and how to add in chord names - this is such an incredibly versatile application, and I feel so comfortable with it - too comfortable - and I do tend to end up sat for hours on end, trying to perfect each measure - and - why not?
in any case, while the instrumentation is somewhat similar to my first concerto, this piece bears no kinship to it beyond that - and I have sprinkled this piece liberally with celestes and pianos and other instrumentation as took my fancy, then spent quite some time tidying up note overruns and odd sounding measures - really just down to lack of experience - until the piece sounded right to my ears.
at some point, I will upload the piece to the "classical" album as well, but I want to keep everything made with notion, on the notion eternal album - so this will be the first music to span two eternal albums.
I will probably wait until the next two movements are written and recorded - and at this point in time, not a single note exists of either , so I have that process to look forward to. assembling this piece was a great joy, I love this tool, and I cannot wait to expand this album with a number of very different compositions spanning a range of styles - including more classical, but also many others - "notion" is so very capable, and I am looking forward to gaining the experience I need, to carry on creating pieces of greater length, complexity, and hopefully, beauty.
what a wonderful tool notion is, I feel so lucky to have such an amazing app with which to compose - it's simply brilliant!
movement no. 2 and movement no. 3 forthcoming later in 2014.
ambient loop guitarist dave stafford performed on stage with robert fripp and the orchestra of crafty guitarists in early
2009, and again with robert fripp and the symphony of crafty guitarists in 2015, and has worked with ambient music and looping for over twenty years. stafford has a rich back catalogue of ambient and loop music, +rock, prog or acoustic crafty guitar music: www.pureambient.com...more
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