By The Sea by Starise

 
  A meditative piece I recently wrote called " By The Sea". The guitar is JTV variax version 1.8 firmware acoustic martin. The flute is from the Kirk hunter strings Kontakt program. No sequencing or midi. Mastered with Ozone 5.
 
 Hope you enjoy it! http://soundcloud.com/starise/by-the-sea

The JTV 1.8 sounds good. I'll be using mine today for the first time since I upgraded.

The piece did not grab me, sorry to say. But A+ for effort Tim.

That flute sounds nice.  What do mean no sequencing or midi?  How did you play it?

Foxwolfen- Thanks for your comment. Bapu- Hope you like the 1.8 upgrade. I love the new acoustics in it! Thats ok I appreciate your honest appraisal of the music. Lynn- The song was intended to be two separate parts that come together. I guess maybe some further balancing is needed or a few changes to the parts to make things better in that regard. Thanks! Janet- I should have just said I didn't sequence the song,that's what I meant by no midi.Obviously I used midi input for the flute in Kontakt.I made no midi corrections of any kind.Thanks! I seem to have some kind of a dual approach to writing and listening. My mind must be tying more together than what many listeners hear.I found a kind of resolution between the two parts.Maybe thats just a lack of something on my part.

I actually think this works in the way it is intended. Yes its unpredictable, almost like a 'jam' between two musicians but i like the contradictory nature of this piece

bibs

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the guitar had an almost African rhythmic feel... if it were mine, I'd start over with a percussion track... instruments sound good to me...

I'm in agreement with Frank, there's a little 'township' feel about this. I understand what the others mean about a certain disconnection between the parts - I think that's because there's no repeated melody on  the flute which would tie in with a guitar part The flute is really just 'doing it's own thing'..which is fine if that's what you intended.