Post by M0nTy_PyTh0n on Sept 27, 2008 21:44:25 GMT -5
Hello to all, who have any interest in music compositions
and want to know a bit more about my music life in the past!
Though I am sure that only a handful of people will find this thread interesting, I want to talk a bit about the soundtracks I am currently composing:
Prologue:
Well, composing music is not my profession, though I now have advanced experiences in that for more than 24 years ... I finished my first composition about 32 years before ... it was a short piano piece - about 50 seconds long, and it sounded a bit like Bela Bartok.
I started playing piano when I was 6 years old - and started playing simple classical piano pieces, tought by a high school music teacher - with lessons every week, until I was 9 years old. Then, I lost interest in these lessons ... concentrated on my own improvisations ... but - one year later - I missed my piano lessons much more than before. Luckily, I got another chance to receive piano lessons again - and this time from an international concert piano player. She was very hard with me, but I did not regret any lesson minute throughout the following 7 years she tought me. I learned many, many piano pieces from J.S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin, and others.
If you now ask me, which is your favorite music composer of all times, then I say: Johann Sebastian Bach. If you ask me this again in 20 years - and I still live - the answer will be the same. To explain it, it probably will take me a year (not that I would not know what to write or explain) ...
Well, also, ... a funny thing happened: Two years before I finished high school, my music teacher was sure to find out, that I have an absolute hearing (this means, that I am able to hear every absolute music note, since I could tell him every note declaration he played on the piano - without watching - blind - during regular music lessons). Well, this was and is partly correct. Well, I was able to tell him the correct notes (A4, C2, G1flat, or anything else...). To have an absolute hearing (in a medical way) you do have to feel a note physically, but I couldn't. My music teacher didn't know it. Anyway ... but, at that time I fould out, that I can reproduce single note just by hearing it. Also, during my time playing in a band, my other band members were deply impressed how fast I could reproduce a complex and long music phrase on piano/keyboards ...
Evolution:
During my studies at school and college and international universities, I played in different bands - Rhythm&Blues, Jazz, Soul&Junk, and Rock. For Jazz I had composed a song, and for Rock I had composed a few songs - surely all with live performances on different concerts.
Since 2001 I found back to my roots - to 'classical' compositions, both piano pieces but also symphonic orchestrations.
Since 2005 I am able not only to compose, but also to arrange and record my own symphonic compositions in an appropriate quality.
Epilogue:
My compositions for the upcoming movie 'The Corruptor' is definitely a highlight in my current compositions. It covers more than 300 years of different music styles ... from baroque to classic to romantic to modern to post-modern ... up to recent movie score styles.
Starting with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and others ...
Also, some movie music styles like Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, and others ...
However, please keep in mind that I do NOT copy music themes - I create NEW compositions just in their style!
Music examples:
music.download.com/hyenastudiosaudionauts
www.myspace.com/hyenastudiosaudionauts
Regards,
M0nTy_PyTh0n.
... this topic is NOT finished yet ... will be continued ...
and want to know a bit more about my music life in the past!
Though I am sure that only a handful of people will find this thread interesting, I want to talk a bit about the soundtracks I am currently composing:
Prologue:
Well, composing music is not my profession, though I now have advanced experiences in that for more than 24 years ... I finished my first composition about 32 years before ... it was a short piano piece - about 50 seconds long, and it sounded a bit like Bela Bartok.
I started playing piano when I was 6 years old - and started playing simple classical piano pieces, tought by a high school music teacher - with lessons every week, until I was 9 years old. Then, I lost interest in these lessons ... concentrated on my own improvisations ... but - one year later - I missed my piano lessons much more than before. Luckily, I got another chance to receive piano lessons again - and this time from an international concert piano player. She was very hard with me, but I did not regret any lesson minute throughout the following 7 years she tought me. I learned many, many piano pieces from J.S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin, and others.
If you now ask me, which is your favorite music composer of all times, then I say: Johann Sebastian Bach. If you ask me this again in 20 years - and I still live - the answer will be the same. To explain it, it probably will take me a year (not that I would not know what to write or explain) ...
Well, also, ... a funny thing happened: Two years before I finished high school, my music teacher was sure to find out, that I have an absolute hearing (this means, that I am able to hear every absolute music note, since I could tell him every note declaration he played on the piano - without watching - blind - during regular music lessons). Well, this was and is partly correct. Well, I was able to tell him the correct notes (A4, C2, G1flat, or anything else...). To have an absolute hearing (in a medical way) you do have to feel a note physically, but I couldn't. My music teacher didn't know it. Anyway ... but, at that time I fould out, that I can reproduce single note just by hearing it. Also, during my time playing in a band, my other band members were deply impressed how fast I could reproduce a complex and long music phrase on piano/keyboards ...
Evolution:
During my studies at school and college and international universities, I played in different bands - Rhythm&Blues, Jazz, Soul&Junk, and Rock. For Jazz I had composed a song, and for Rock I had composed a few songs - surely all with live performances on different concerts.
Since 2001 I found back to my roots - to 'classical' compositions, both piano pieces but also symphonic orchestrations.
Since 2005 I am able not only to compose, but also to arrange and record my own symphonic compositions in an appropriate quality.
Epilogue:
My compositions for the upcoming movie 'The Corruptor' is definitely a highlight in my current compositions. It covers more than 300 years of different music styles ... from baroque to classic to romantic to modern to post-modern ... up to recent movie score styles.
Starting with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and others ...
Also, some movie music styles like Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, and others ...
However, please keep in mind that I do NOT copy music themes - I create NEW compositions just in their style!
Music examples:
music.download.com/hyenastudiosaudionauts
www.myspace.com/hyenastudiosaudionauts
Regards,
M0nTy_PyTh0n.
... this topic is NOT finished yet ... will be continued ...