Posts made in November, 2009

Welcome to the second part of the tutorial about my little piece “The Last Survivor”. If you want to read the first part of this tutorial, head over to Making of “The Last Survivor” – Part I The score sheet for this track as PDF is available HERE Bar 20 – 27 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Composition: The most important role of these few bars is to prepare for the middle, softer part of this piece to give it a logical yet not too expectable entrance. I decided to do a strong dominantic buildup there once more followed by a short “free” quasi effect-driven passage which...

There is a small video clip from the scoring sessions of Anno 1404 available on Youtube. I did parts of the orchestration for this score. I posted a few pictures from these sessions a while back already but now you can also have an acoustic impression of the score. You can have a look and listen here:

I just got home from Leipzig where I was for 2 days mixing the orchestral recordings we did in Prague. The mixing went extremely well, Holger Busse from GENUIN once again did a fabulous job and we’re very pleased about how beautiful and warm the tracks sound now. In the meantime Moritz is doing vocal and choir recordings for the songs in Zurich. Stay tuned for more news.

I’m back! The lest few days I went to Prague and Salzburg. We recorded 5 of the main tracks of “Dällebach Kari” in Prague with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The sessions went extremely well, the orchestra was very good and amazed us again by playing very difficult stuff almost perfect on the first take. I will post a small report and video of the sessions within the next few days. After that, we flew over to Salzburg to meet up with the rest of the creative team of the musical to discuss the show and decide about scenic and musical issues. We also met up with the main actor of the show to discuss with him the singing style and attitude he should play the character. The musical is getting more and more shape and we’re all very...