SyQuEsT Wins the iPod - There are 1,078 GPO Demos

[Garritan]

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[Garritan]

And, what you've all been waiting for -- the winner of the Guess the Demo Contest is SyQuEsT. )(~ SyQuEsT guessed 1,024 songs which was the closest to the correct number of GPO demos on the Garritan site - which is 1,078 demos. :wow: A few of you were fairly close.

You can see and hear the demos at http://www.garritan.com/audio/ (There is a handy sortable table to click by Composer, Title, Artist, Genre, etc.)

While perusing the many demos, what impressed me most was the absolutely astonishing amount of great music being created by the GPO community. The Garritan Forum boasts perhaps one of the largest community of contemporary composers, using GPO to create often breathtakingly innovative and groundbreaking modern music -- with more new, exciting music posted by these talented individuals every single day.

From Award Winning composers to hobbyists, to students, to performers; people who work in notation and those who use sequencers; from newcomers to educators to retired musicians -- this wonderful community is daily building an incredible body of music unlike any other in the world. Many of these demos have been featured in albums, television shows, local theatre, recitals, dance performances, films, gala events, museums, games, advertisements, videos, school projects... and every minute of it is real music by real musicians!

Some of these works are collaborative projects among members. Some are from contests, like the GPO Orchestration Competition or the 4th of July or Halloween Demo contest. Some are from the annual Christmas CD album that our users put together every year (and was menioned by the New York Times last year). From undiscovered works by the masters to original work by new composers, the music created with GPO spans every style and era of music history. Garibolt is realizing unheard Beethoven works while Jonathon Orwig and roz are bringing never-before-heard works of obscure and neglected composers to a whole new audience, and Adam revivied many of the forgotten turn-of-the-century works. The Radio Station has also exposed our users to a wide listening audience.

And many people are listening -- with members of our community getting work, benefit, recognition, and publication as a result. Francesco got to score a Harry Potter project based on his GPO demos, Roberto's music was picked up for a film, Joaz went on to publication; still another member got a job doing music for a campaign; a greeting card company has licensed over a dozen works from these demos; and even a leading ballet company has commisioned some of the works. Based on some of these demos, some were admitted to colleges and conservatories, as well. The list goes on and on.

No other orchestral library has such a large and stunning library of demos; and we are proud to post this real music created by real users. Note that these demos are not professionally produced in order to make a more favorable impression -- such examples would be misleading. Instead, we thought it honest to show the Personal Orchestra in real world use. What you hear is what you get... straight from users from around the world and posted in the Garritan Forum.

Many thanks to these fine composers and musicians for sharing their work with us. This amazing amount of music would not have been possible without their talent, skill and creativity.

I urge you all to go over to http://www.garritan.com/audio/ and listen to many of these fabulous works (there's an easy sortable table to get through them all sort by Composer, Title, Artist, Genre, etc.).

Congratulations SyQuEsT -- and to our many, many contributors who daily win us over with their music. )(~

Gary Garritan

[SyQuEsT]

WOW !!! :D and you know what ? it's my birthday !!! :D

[Sean Beeson]

WOW !!! :D and did you know ? it's my birthday !!! :D

Double bonus :) H-bay chief.

[SyQuEsT]

How I've choose 1024 songs ? 1 gig = 1024 megabites ;)

Only the luck :)

Wow
(sorry but i'm very happy :D)

[Brian2112]

Oh, I missed this! Am I late?

OK, I guess that there are 1,078 demos.~|

I'll be waiting for my pod at the post office - thanks!:hp:

Happy Birthday SyQuest!)(~


...2112:D

[rwayland]

How I've choose 1024 songs ? 1 gig = 1024 megabites ;)

Only the luck :)

Wow
(sorry but i'm very happy :D)
Well, you should be happy! Congratulations.

Also congratulations to Larry Alexander for the greatest number of demos, by a wide margin, and to to me, l think, for the second largest number.

Richard

[Leaf]

Wow, that's a lot of demos!

Congrats, SyQuEsT!:hp:

Click on the very last one, SEA (Jamie Crist) Come Back To Me(Jazz Piano), it's beautiful!!

[musicpete]

Congratulations! Now fill that thingie to the brim with GPO demos! )(~ :D

[beach]

Thanks Gary to have put my demo there... soon you will have to add more!!!)(~:D:D

I am preparing some....



Congrats Syn.!!!!:|:*() )(~

Roberto

[joaz]

Hearty congratulations to Syquest.

One of the things I love about the GPO composers community, is that composers of Contemporary Concert Hall music, can hear their work alongside, Soundtracks, Pop Songs, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, Jazz Charts, World Music, Game music etc,etc,.

This is a more healthy state of play than exists in the "real" world, where all too often contemporary music is consigned to a ghetto, and programmers are often reluctant to take a chance on anything remotely challenging, for fear of hurting the bottom line.

We are blessed indeed to have such fine composers as Kowalski, Sosnowski and many others bringing us fresh new work, that sits perfectly happily alongside new music from other genres.

In the past 2 years I have heard a lot of New "Classical" music on the radio, and in performance, but the best stuff I have heard, has been right here on this forum.

To Gary,Tom, Giorgio and everyone at Team Garritan, a heartfelt Thank You.

regards Joe

[lukpcn]

Congrats SyQuEsT:|: )(~

[BlueMax]

Syquest cartridges were 50% bigger than that. ;)

Congrats! I should have revised my entry.... 400? Bah!

1000+?? That's crazy!! ~|

[nikolas]

Of course Syn gets the prize, which is brilliant!

BUT:

Guys!

We're talking about 1078 demos. Around 2000 minutes of music, around 30 hours of music (depends really)

That is amazing.

And since I like combining thoughts and ideas, and threads in the end, this is the best proof and doing against piracy I say!

Well done everybody!

[LFO]

Well at least I now know if I had entered that I would have lost by a huge margin. ;) 1078?! Wow!

Congrats SyQuEst! Well done and enjoy the iPod!)(~

-LFO

[Bela D Media]

I don't know Gary. I have to be honest here. You only have 1078 demos? I think I will wait for 1079 before I purchase GPO.

Oh wait! I already own GPO and love it! :D

Congrats!

[Veron]

Congrats SyQuEst! :)

I didn`t guess it would be over 1000 !!
WOW!!!

[Garritan]

I don't know Gary. I have to be honest here. You only have 1078 demos? I think I will wait for 1079 before I purchase GPO.

Oh wait! I already own GPO and love it! :D

Congrats!Thanks Francis,

I was hoping for a demo with Diva and Giovanni for that special 1,079th demo...*():);)

Gary

[bbybeaniej]

I wish I would have known about this sooner. I was about to get 1077 demos. :) Why are there so many demos anyway?

[SyQuEsT]

I'm listening all the demos and some of mine, on my new Ipod :)

It's real ... not a dream ! :D

Thanks again Gary and friends ...

[Garritan]

I'm listening all the demos and some of mine, on my new Ipod :)

It's real ... not a dream ! :D

Thanks again Gary and friends ...SyQuEsT,

I'm glad that the iPod found its way up to Canada. :hp:

Enjoy the music and hope it inspires you to make more music!

Perhaps we can do this again and have another contest. We only posted a fraction of the demos :wow: and there are many more to put up on the site.

Gary Garritan

[Garritan]

I wish I would have known about this sooner. I was about to get 1077 demos. :) Why are there so many demos anyway?bbybean,

Thanks for asking :) There are good reasons why there are so many GPO demos.

First I am proud of the music GPO users make with the library and I want to showcase our users. It's an incredible amount of music made by users from hundreds of users all over the world. There's breathtakingly innovative and groundbreaking gems among those 1,078 demos. And I truly appreciate the music these fine composers have shared with us

Also, I believe it is honest to show real music by real musicians from all walks of life. We could have hired professional demo writers to write music to the library and have them engineered and professionally mastered as others have done. While pro demos can show when can be attained ultimately it can also be misleading.

Did you ever purchase a library based on the demos only to discover your music bore no resemblance to the demos? That has happened to me and I don't want that to happen to others. By providing over a thousand demos by users - I believe you get an accurate and honest evaluation of the library.

It is a joy to hear all the music being made daily. If it's all about music - then there is no better testament than a wonderful bounty of music. :)



Gary Garritan