From Perfection to Frustration

The nice thing about developing themes for movies is that if they don’t end up in the movie, they still get published as music2work2; this is one such piece.

I’ve been developing this piece as an introduction to a more established theme for Moments of Perfection – it’s supposed to be the beginning of the lovemaking – but SAmi’s absolutely right – it sounds waaay more ominious than it should. Unless of course he was animating praying mantis sex!

However, I do love the tension and how the strings are working together – so I’m taking the idea and incorporating it into the new Frustration II theme. I’m writing for 4 different voices now: Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello – new rig, new tones – scary but exciting all at the same time. We’ll post some more frustration next week!

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What a week...

“…it’s like running a marathon and being 10 feet from winning, when the race umpire steps out, kicks you in the balls and moves the finishing line back another 10 miles!”

Yep – that has been our experience over the last 6 days.

There’s no real point in taking you through the bad stuff, so we’ll just concentrate on the good:

• We’re going to be changing recording platform again and this time we’re going to start working with Digital Performer - what this means is that the sound of music2work2 is going to improve dramatically – particularly when it comes to the tones that are generated for the string patches. I’m super excited about this and will be learning the new set up over the next two months.
• We’re writing music for two movies at the moment – of course you’ve seen the development of the music for Sami Nikki’s Moments of Perfection, but we’re also scoring some cues for the Sam and Terry’s documentary on how democracyis getting shafted.
• We’re also making some big changes to the YouTube channel, we will be working with a new network and this should have a dramatic effect on our visibility. Both Charlotte and I are incredibly excited about this and we will share everything next week.
• Finally – with all the nonsense that went on – a new version of Frustration popped out which I will be developing over the next month – in tandem with the other projects – so we’ll have some new music2work2 by the end of September – here’s the rather optimistic ending theme:

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Frustrated!

I'm so frustrated at the moment - I'm working through this piece and it's not right - I've moved from one setup to another and it just highlights technical deficiencies and little things that clash sonically - & sure - I could rush it out the door but it wouldn't be correct and would just bug me forever. It's a horrible feeling knowing that you have to keep hacking away until you get it right and there's no short cut - no quick magical fix - except just to do it and get better and execute.

So I'm going to listen to this for the rest of the day and hopefully by tomorrow I'll be out the other side:

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