In the Craddle Forever

[Nithel]

http://soundcloud.com/david-larsen/in-the-craddle-forever

I wanted to try something dramatic and emotional, and was inspired by Terence McKenna's 'A new beginning'.
Turned out a bit cheesy, but it's a work in progress, and there's still a lot of fine-tuning to do. Especially the piano seems a bit stiff, but that's a bit complicated - It's a recording of my computer playing my piano.... Yeah. The next one is going to be myself playing my piano, which will hopefully sound a bit more dynamic.

Wanted to make a dramatic and emotional video to go with it, but I don't really have anything dramatic and emotional to say, so that will have to wait, unless anybody have ideas?

What do you think?

 

[Memeticemetic]

A beautiful, simple theme that you began to express and explore well. I would be interested in hearing more as work progresses on the piece.

 

[lrkun]

http://soundcloud.com/david-larsen/in-the-craddle-forever

I wanted to try something dramatic and emotional, and was inspired by Terence McKenna's 'A new beginning'.
Turned out a bit cheesy, but it's a work in progress, and there's still a lot of fine-tuning to do. Especially the piano seems a bit stiff, but that's a bit complicated - It's a recording of my computer playing my piano.... Yeah. The next one is going to be myself playing my piano, which will hopefully sound a bit more dynamic.

Wanted to make a dramatic and emotional video to go with it, but I don't really have anything dramatic and emotional to say, so that will have to wait, unless anybody have ideas?

What do you think?

I like your composition, it's great, it might serve as a canon piece. You can use this in the context of contradicting christian beliefs and the reality of which bad things still happen despite faith in god.

May I also request that you add a link which will allow us to download your composition. I am persuaded to add this to my collection of things to listen in my ipad.

 

[nasher168]

Fuckin' hell. That was very good. Certainly better than anything I could ever produce.

I think it would work very well if you perhaps added something to the front of it, to make that bit a sort of climax and ending to a longer piece.
It reminds me of this piece, and so I'm inclined to think it would be a good idea to put something quiet and slow at the front in a similar way:

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May I also request that you add a link which will allow us to download your composition

You mean like the button that says "Download" near the Play button?
http://soundcloud.com/david-larsen/in-the-craddle-forever/download


EDIT:
Might I ask how you produce your other pieces, Nithel? I notice that you have music that sounds like it's electronically-made, but sounds much better than Sibelius, which I use.

 

[Nithel]

I'm glad you like it!

lrkun, I'm not sure to be so specific. I had another idea in mind - showing how beautiful nature is, waking some feelings in people - and then point out that the most beautiful part is that it's all there by itself. Not to convince anybody, I think there's plenty of that out there thanks to amongst others the people here. But if you wake feelings in people, i think you're more likely to keep their attention, and then they won't see it coming
Gotta be well produced though, so it might take some time..

Nasher169, to be fair, I added the link when I saw his post
I'm using Fl Studio for managing all the sounds and samples, ReFX Nexus (a VST plugin inside FL Studio) for instruments and sounds, and a sample pack called Hit Kit v3 for sound effects and the drums and beats. The important thing is ReFX Nexus though . It's a sampler, so you can't generate original sounds, but there're plenty of sounds to choose from, and most of them are pretty sweet. Especially with the expansion packs. For the most part I use it for orchestral sounds though, like the cello in this piece. It's a VST, so you can even use it inside Sibelius, but Sibelius is not nearly as powerful as FL Studio or Cubase. It's just good at what it does best - help with composing and learning music you then play yourself..
Hope that was helpful