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Finished it. It's a beautiful film. Top to bottom!

DT Houston Sure is. Makes me realize how lucky I am and grateful that these are the types of people that I've been surrounded by my whole life. I know all these stories and lived most of them.

That's so cool, Linwood Bell. Well, the human spirit is alive and well. It's refreshing to see a piece like this. Thanks again for sharing...

Wow, Linwood Bell , this brought me to tears, both the film and the sublime score, thank you so much for sharing! I agree with you that we are so fortunate to spend our lives immersed in such wonderful vibrations ( and by vibrations I mean those of the music, but also those of such amazing people, we are all vibrations starting from our own cells, right? ;) ) . If it wasn't for music and its power of elevating and healing our souls I wouldn't possibly be here today. Sending good vibes to you and to all those in the lounge.

Elena Maro Kris is such a talent isn't he? I first became a fan of his when I saw him in the Monk piano thing years ago. He's a serious player. Then I started seeing him doing so many movie scores and now co-directing this. He needs to quit raising the bar so high!! lol

Colin Hussey 6 in either way is 12 tones. It's all of it. Not limiting at all if you can see it. Look again from the center out in both directions.

That's not my understanding of 12-tone. Wikipedia has a good, basic definition of the technique:

"The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 pitch classes. All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique

Side note: The most famous tone row was written by Leonard Bernstein for the musical, West Side Story, in the song, "Cool." It's the fugal theme that kicks off the dance sequence in the middle of the number. It captures the angst of the teenage gang perfectly.

I didn't mention 12 tone. I said...in either direction you only have six choices as we were talking intervals or root movement. That would be m2, 2, m3, M3, 4th, and tritone. And that's if you're looking from the center out in both directions...not bottom to top or top to bottom. lol. There's so many ways to see music. That's what so fascinating about it.

Colin, thanks for the compliment. It originally started out with piano only before all the other additions. Pardon beginning like others, I was only adding since it originally had too sharp a beginning for me. I recently heard it needs to be longer since it’s barely over a minute.

Quick example of why I like to look from the center out as well as bottom to top or top to bottom. Seeing it in different ways helps me to transpose any where quickly. Also I dig the sound/balance for some things.

I'm glad that you were able to connect with her, DT Houston!

Hey Bobby Katz, I will DM you. I can tell you here that Liza is super busy with more than a full plate of activeTV/Film projects. But she does have other Music Supervisors on staff at her company. Is your project already financed w/budget?

Thank you Elena Maro and Ashley Renee Smith. Appreciate that. In the taking a very Big Swing department, hoping to enlist the legend, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, as Music Composer for a guitar-driven heartbeat which provides nuanced and emotive connective tissue for the story...

That’s exciting, DT Houston . Sending good vibes your ways that it happens!

Thanks Elena Maro. We're connected Bobby Katz. I DM'd you...

Thanks for sharing!

Wow, this is a dream studio for sure, Linwood Bell , thank you for sharing! I don't like a dead room either, but would love to start with a ceiling that is not flat and a room that is not square..one step at a time...lol.

At one point I had turned my garage into my studio. It was nice. The ceiling was low, but it was big enough for a vocal booth, an upright piano, rhodes, B3 with a 122 and all my other stuff...and drum roll; bathroom. No one had to go into my house. The studio had its own entrance. We moved and now I'm working out of one of the bedrooms. It's small, but all I really need. I've got real traps going around the center and a couple high up on the walls as the ceiling is high and slanted up at a 45. I'm really comfortable in here, but miss the B3 and piano big time.I've still got the rhodes in here though. :)

What a great share Linwood Bell!

I love it when you share studio tours with us, Linwood Bell! It's so interesting to see the different environments where people thrive creatively.

It's great hearing Steven Spielberg and Bradley Cooper talk about "Maestro," Linwood Bell. I didn't know Bradley Cooper was a director. I just watched some of the "Maestro" trailers. The music is incredible!

I haven't watched Maestro yet and can't wait to - this video only makes me want to see it that much more. Thanks, Linwood Bell!

Bernstein on the Beatles. :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32U0mjGz6g

So LOVE both of these men... WoW! great conversation. I saw Brad Cooper first in Silver Linings Playbook with the AMAZING Jennifer Lawrence (who I hope might play apart in mine!)... which I watch over & over again for certain aspects to help towards my making of my movie SUCCESS AFTER INSANITY... thanks for sharing this!!

what a great conversation! such a fan of Bernstein!

Happy New Year! Elena Maro. My pleasure. I hope it’s useful in some way.

This is great, thanks @Nicolas!

Thank for Sharing Nicolás Repetto

I’ve heard of this strategy, Nicholas. Thanks for reminder and see if time to watch your course.

What a great video to help guide other composers Nicolás Repetto!

This is great, thanks @Joel!

Elena Maro Yes! ....and some things I always have to write on paper to get the results I want and other things I just want to play it in. Some things are just fun to write on paper and explore it. Many times it will just write itself and I'm as surprised as the next guy watching and listening to it unfold right before my eyes/ears. Stuff like this....and please forgive the mess and the mockup. It was just for fun playing with different interval combos. Point is...it's another tool in the toolbox. Be gentle...lol https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/199365529

That's great, Linwood Bell! Thanks for sharing! Especially when you are going to record it is good to know what you are writing and for what instruments, but I have found along the way that even for electronic music or projects "in the box" it is a great thing to set up an "ensemble" for the film that is staying consistent, so that the score is more cohesive and balanced.

Thanks. It’s nothing. Just an old piece of homework actually, but it shows how you can get something from nothing by just working interval relationships and leading tones. You can go anywhere with it and different interval combos will yield different vibes. Writes itself. Sure, you have to be clever, but the intervals do most of the work for you.

this is awesome Joel Irwin! I love being able to find a song in a film and stumbling across something I wouldn't have known!

Thank you so much, Navid Lancaster ! And I wish the same to you and to all the amazing composers in the lounge!

Like they said! :-) Tunes ahead!!

100%, Navid Lancaster! Are you working on anything new currently that you're excited about?

Thank you! I wish you the same! Navid Lancaster

Happiest New Year to you and the entire community, Navid Lancaster!

Wow - this is hypnotic and conjures deep emotions. Amazing that it's almost a thousand years old. For some reason it made me think of Annaud's "The Name Of The Rose". I will listen to this again. Thank you, Geoff Hall!

Thanks, Sam Sokolow that’s a great reference. I love that film. It made me think of Harry Gregson-Williams and the choral music on ‘Kingdom of Heaven’.

...and all with the white notes.

So moving and inspiring. Thank you for another of yours great shared, Geoff Hall . And Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Elena Maro I’m glad you liked it. I was amazed when I first heard it. It just elevates the soul.

I checked out the two xlutop.com links above. The second will not download and anyway is unnecessary though I will leave that link in the above post -- do not bother clicking on it. The top zip file is 'magic'. You put all the files that are in the vst2shell zip into the folder that contains all your 'vst3' plugins. In the case of Musio, they went into \Program Files\Common Files\VST3. You then get your software to go through the process of recognizing plugins and voila! Even if your app does not support VST3, they are now supported. I tried loading an instrument into the Musio VST3 plugin and lo and behold, I was able to use/play it in Sibelius.

Joel, I transitioned from Sibelius 7.5 to Dorico a few ago. It’s great !!

If you could upgrade to version 3 or 3.5 like I Have, it would be great. Version four and five use the M chip, whereas version three still uses in Intel processors on Mac..

it works great w / NI 12 !!

My suggestion- IMHO.

Hope all is well in your world.

K. Kennard