Interesting Afternoon

[Sean Beeson]

I just wanted to share a new piece that I wrote, one that visits my roots in music. (And I feel contains a little bit of my personal voice in music.) The piece was written to be heard in a platforming adventure. Crazy Afternoon is linear in nature, and can be looped after 2 minutes.

I used a two different libs for this piece, and would love to get this piece in front of a live orchestra in the near future :p

http://www.seanbeeson.com/Crazy%20Afternoon.mp3

Thank you for listening,
Sean Beeson

[Hannes_F]

Sean,

a great piece in a very positive, inspring mood! Here somebody knows exactly what he is doing.

Also a fantastic rendition. The musical layers (quite some of them) sound very lively each of them, never static or mechanic and also have swing. I am in my fourth listen now and enjoy it even more with every time.

To be honest, the only instrument I would have some slight issues is the clarinet. Not at the height of the bassoon solo that simply sounds great!

A top work!


Hannes

[Sean Beeson]

I was worried about the clarinet too Hannes. It is the only VSL instrument, and not that it was bad, but I just thought that acoustically it might stick out just a little.

Thanks,
Sean

[Hannes_F]

Sean,

I think it is ok that it sticks out because it is supposed to ;-)

Maybe some more tone changes on long notes could make it just a little less straight. Just my 2c.

Best regards
Hannes

[Sean Beeson]

I tried using a kontakt script that adds legato, (because that sinus tone rings just a little) but it was freaking out with the legato script :p

[Hannes_F]

Hm.
What about good ol' drawing a slightly bent curve in some midi cc that reflects the brightness of the tone? May be more straightforward in this case.

I do that all the time with the solo instruments and sometimes also with the strings, sigh :D .

Hannes

[DPDAN]

excellent writing and arranging, WOW!

The libraries are excellent too!
Dan

[Sean Beeson]

Thanks Dan, and Hannes for the nice comments.

[js33]

Would did you mean by platforming adventure? Maybe we are thinking the same.
It sounds like music from a Spielberg comedy adventure movie. Very well done. Keep it up.

[joaz]

That is Lovely writing Sean.
Super orchestration too.

regards Joe

[bluepowder]

one word: EXCELLENT!

[jamiha]

Hi Shawn

I liked it. Reminds me of a Broadway musical overture, hustle and bustle of a big city just before a hard clear stage voice starts singing.
Right over those vamping bars.

A good uplift setting expectation.

jamiha

[Sean Beeson]

Would did you mean by platforming adventure? Maybe we are thinking the same.
It sounds like music from a Spielberg comedy adventure movie. Very well done. Keep it up.

Platforming adventure videogame. Sorry, should have clarified.

[js33]

Man don't waste your talents on a videogame. This should be film music. But then again videogames today probably pay more than films. :D

[Sean Beeson]

Man don't waste your talents on a videogame. This should be film music. But then again videogames today probably pay more than films. :D

I have actually done more film work than games, but I just couldn't see myself scoring films for the next 60 years of my life :p

I was practically born a gamer as well, but never got into scoring games until about 2 years ago.

Thanks
Sean Beeson

[Crystal]

Hi, Sean.

Your demos on your site are impressive. A very high realism.

Very good programming, really.


You never use VSL ? (Except clarinet here.)

[Alexcremers]

Impressive on every count.

[Sean Beeson]

I have found that EW and VSL are both great in their respecitve ways. I have a number of custom patches as well that incorporate samples from different libraries that are layered . I do use EW primarily.

Thanks,