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I tried out an idea of something faster and more explosive.

Opener Theme Idea One

Going for triumphant empowerment. Starting small, and building into a full, textured body. And nice long trail.

The area I'm going for here is a Sigur Ros, Helios, Album Leaf, Explosions In The Sky direction.

Thoughts?

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This is a tricky one, and I'm not sure I can satisfy everyones wants on this piece, but I'm doing what I can.

Jack was saying that for the show this piece needed "something with much more momentum/energy, less pondering, less epicness, more fun or exploratory".

And Zack wanted "a bit more sense of motion, especially in the lower register, a sense of uncertainty, more of a difference to a release". Of course I don't very much have "release and speed can come from the the melodic lines suddenly gaining freedom; bouncing and weaving with a ton of lightness, at the same rates and along with the pulse only with more poetry. I like the idea of those high notes feeling more fluid between each other. not clean discrete tones, but bending and sliding into each other" I wanted it to have a pay off, but since the rest is moving so fast "slow it down" was my thought.

As for a new England feel, I played around with tunes until I had one that made me picture a room with large windows showing fall colored trees, where one could hang out and read Chaucer with a glass of wine at the ready. As you turn the page you think that maybe you will take off your corduroy sport coat, because really the room is warm enough for just your wool sweater. Beside you'll put it back on in a few minutes when you head down to the pub to meet Dimitri, he said he'd be there around six, and you are absolutely dying to argue the ins and outs of 'monkey with chainsaw arms vs. crocodile with steel teeth. Who would win?' with him.

This goes from a seven to a four time. At 180 bpm it should/could be mashable with the first piece.

Oh yeah. No strings either. Unless you count the guitar stings as strings.

What do you think? Am I just crazy?

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This one hopefully has a better string section. And a stronger ending. Also this version is in 16 bit, 41k so it will sound better with the actual 24/48 file.

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This actually sounds a lot better under some dialogue.

I'm using mostly stuff you'de find in that time, area. Clay pots, bells, glass bottle, violin, cello, big drum, a little bit of a trumpet, and harp. In an interesting timing/s.

What do you think?

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Ghosts of militaries past.

Like This Chris?

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Piano, and very expensive crystal wine glass.

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The fast one.

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I got this idea as I was watching the footage you gave me.

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I've got two endings here. The one you hear at the end is very lyrical. And the the words are actually someone telling the video's poster that he got the name of the tabla player wrong. Not that I'm pronouncing it well enough to make that out...

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I have a request from Chris to put an additional vocalist singing on there. But here are the strings hopefully giving it an epic sound. What do you think?

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This is not quite "epic" yet, and there are still one or two things I'm hearing this morning that I want to change, but I did want to see your reaction to the direction I'm going.

The lyrics are from the comments sections of the Ali Khan Families YouTube videos. Incase you were wondering.

Touring Germany With A Jewish Element

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There are two versions for you to listen to here. The first is minimal, the second is the same with more instruments. Of course you can have it both ways with stems, but I thought it was important for you to hear it minimally .

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I've been listening to non stop Mediengruppe Telekommander and I'm ready to go!


The end was just for fun, but it's there if you want it.