Posts made in August, 2009

Welcome to my second tutorial. This time I will talk a bit about the orchestra itself, especially certain practical issues to keep in mind when you write for an orchestra. So you decided you want to write for an orchestra, maybe even a real orchestra, but at least you want to write for something that sounds like orchestra – a sample library, and you also want it to actually sound like an orchestra. It’s not like you need a lot of knowledge about an orchestra to write for samples, you just do what sounds good, but in order to get a convincing result, you might want to handle those samples as if you were writing for orchestra. If you want to write for a real orchestra, you of course HAVE to stick to certain rules and things in order to make it work at...

Yesterday, we went to Thun again to do some recordings with the musical orchestra. We recorded one of our already finished musical songs from “Dällebach Kari” – The Musical which will be played at thi’s year’s last show of “Jesus Christ Superstar” as kind of appetizer for next year. It was quite a task to record in a orchestra pit built on a lake with people walking around behind the scenes making noises, doing soundchecks, rehearsing dances etc. but we got together a very nice recording thanks to the very professional conductor Ivan Wassilevski and the motivated musicians from the orchestra of the Thuner Seespiele. Next week, the choir and soloist will be recorded on top of what we recorded yesterday. All the best Robin

Welcome to my first tutorial. Due to the many emails and messages I get, asking for certain things, I decided to start this little tutorial section on my webpage in which I will publish tutorials dealing with issues concering composition, orchestration and specifically writing music for movies. I will focus on purely musical issues in these tutorials which don’t require needing any special software skills etc. as there are still enough technical tutorials around online. The first tutorial deals with the harmonic series from a musical and compositional point of view. There are tons of information on this issue available dealing with the acoustic phenomenon of this issue but I’ll try and focus on the things, the harmonic series can do for you in your...