Spring

Today is my last day of spring break. I was off from school from Wed until today which was a needed break from the hassles of teaching.

I was able to compose 2 pieces of music this year, a total of about 8 minutes of music. Spring and Ignoble Servitude are the two pieces and I an quite happy with both of them.

Thanks to all that commented already on Ignoble Servitude.


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Hey Ron
    As always excellent writing and production.  The strings sounded tight but natural if that makes sense.  I cant say that the piece brings visions of Spring time in my head but it is neat nontheless.
    If you dont mind me asking, what reverb(s) do you use?  Have you tried Spaces yet from East West?

Thank you lady and gentlemen

Janet

I composed Ignoble on Wed and Thurs and Spring on Sun and Mon. So not quite a week. I had to relax to get prepared for the rest of the year.

Mike

I use a lot of reverbs.

I have Lexicon on every track and Perfect Space on a number as well. I also have those 2 on my master track and then once out of Sonar and into Soundforge I add a little Sony reverb as well. Every instance of reverb is different and added just a little at a time.

I have looked at Spaces but am not ready for that yet. If it aint broke, why fix it?

Warren

You got it right. The piece starts with the end of winter.

Thanks again

Ron

Wonderful pieces!  Excellent work as usual. 

Spring -  I was trying to picture in my mind what kind of spring you are trying to paint and it seems that there is some drama going on the backdrop on what should be a wonderful season.

Ignoble Servitude - I see you are adding some synths.  The drums and percussion seems to be pointing to the work these slaves are doing.  Any chances these slaves can get out?  Death perhaps?

I heard the first three pieces on your song list.  I'll be honest I didn't pay a ton of attention to them because I'm working, but what I can tell you is at the very least they were very nice background pieces to listen too while doing work.  I'll try to come back and listen to them again.

Excellent piece (Spring) Ron.  I thought it was appropriate for spring -- it shook off the darkness of winter in the beginning and stepped out into the sunlight of spring.  Terrific production as well.
 
Freddy J

Listening... I'm appreciating how accessible your opening theme is.  The B section is a fine contrast... coming back into the A section... it's complicated and a bit darker than the first A section but very nice.

Very accessible tune Ron.  I REALLY like this one although I'm not sure how springlike it is... it more like Fall-Winter and then it ends with the melting snow.  That's more the emotional vibe I get.

Also re. your website.  I don't like that it auto streams from piece to piece w/o a break.  You might consider adding about 5 seconds of silence to the end of your recordings so your listeners get a break between your pieces.  I think the emotional impact of your pieces might be stronger this way.

Anyway, this might be my fav. tune from you just because I found it so accessible!

Peace,

Ian

very interesting music... over my head for sure...
well done Ron...