Exultate

[RCRees]

Luis,
Are you applying some of the suggestions you've received here? I just listened again and I think it is really getting better! If you haven't made any changes in the last week, then I'm just enjoying it more on the second listen. If you have made adjustments, keep up the good work.

Rob

[barouh]

Originally Posted by RCRees

..I think it is really getting better! ...
Rob

In any case, that's the way this kind of music grows in our minds.
A great job, Luis. A lot of work but what a result!

Mayer

[luima]

Rob, Mayer,
I am planning a major update of the piece including all the advices received here, but due, my friends, that I already have ordered Platiinum + XP bunlde (I´ve been saving for long time and anxious to receive it) , I shall wait until I can manage with the library and rebuild the piece with a better new and naturally reverbered sound.
I will send you a pm when the work is finished
Thanks for your support my friends.
Luis

[Ecliptic]

Hi Luis,

as Mayer wrote, there is a lot of work here.
The choir sounds great, I think you should tweak the orchestra that drown out the voices, particularly you should work on the strings that sometimes sound a bit synthy.

Cheers

[luima]

Hi Enrico,
Thanks for the listen and for the comment. Certainly when you are working with SChoirs then you put all your effort in the voices and forget some important details in the orchestra. That is why I shall reorchestrate the piece when I receive the Platinum edition, ! I hope very soon ¡.
Cheers
Luis

[mark d]

Hi Luis. Really enjoyed your work. I liked where you layered the choirs 4/4 over the orchestras 6/8 timing, & also the rhythmic changes around 2'25''. They sounded suspiciously like a Bulerias influence (flamenco). Are you interested in fusions of this kind in particular ? I'd be interested to know more about your musical influences.
Its got me wondering if future work on this piece might develop that "passionate rhythmic" aspect a bit more. This is not in any way a criticism of the piece, but a sigh of relief that someone is combining my favourite music styles so well. I look forward to hearing more of your music.

[luima]

Hi Mark,

I really apreciate your comments, looks like if you where reading the score while listening, that is a great, an not very common skill, that you have by sure.

I don´t have any clear influence, but maybe because I am Spanish and studied formally Spanish guitar when I was 14 yo, and thus had to learn all of Tarrega and Rodrigo works, there is a slight influence of flamenco rythms, but it was not my intention to do explicitly any fussion of styles.

Anyhow, after that I have been hearing and studing during many years the classic composers, such as the Vienna school, then Brahms, Bruckner and specially Mahler.

In the last year I have investigated in depth the 20th century composers, from Debussy to Olivier Knusen, and of course they have had influence in my actual music, specially Hans Werner Henze, A. Copland and John Adams.

The texture of this piece, that you describe very well as layers. is in the style of Vienna composers that also Adams used to incorporate in his woks. The use of tetrachords in the harmony, is a clear influence of contemporary, especially American composers, that had its origins in the Jazz, and that nowadays has become of common use.

Hope your question is answered.

Thanks for the listen, the comments and happy to know that we share the same musical tastes.
Luis

[mark d]

Wow. That is a lot of study. I thought you might have been a guitarist, or afficionado of Spanish guitar. Most of my work over the last 20 yrs has been performing Renaissance & Baroque lute, vihuela de mano, classical guitar, celtic harp, & most recently working as flamenco accompanist. So you can understand how quickly I perceived where Exultate might be coming from, & how glad I was to hear it.
Once again, great work !!! Thanks for filling in the missing details. Cant wait to get Symph Choirs to mix in with Gold XP.
(Viva Tomas Luis de Victoria !!!)

[priblejr]

Hey Luima,

I am going to be slightly constructive here, I am sure this just reinforces what everyone else has said, but the strings.....way too choppy.....too choppy (at least to be "real")

It is difficult to determine what the purpose of many of the composers on here have...some desire a synth-like sound, others are shooting for "realism". I don't know which way you wanted to head here, but I assumed with the choir and lyrics that you wanted an orchestra sound (meaning real).

Really take the time, go back, check the velocities, the crescendos, the envelope. Listen to similar pieces and really listen to your voices and try to compliment their endings with the strings. It seems you have very flowing vocals and then abrupt string changes.

I love the voices and the movement, so bravo. Very 20th century

Respectfully,

Jon Prible

http://www.myspace.com/jonprible

[luima]

Hi Jon,
Thanks for the constructive criticism and your sincerity. You are right, it is clear that the sound is not that realistic. When you are working during a long time into a piece you can loose the perspective and focus your atention in partial aspects of the work. I shall rework the whole piece.
I heard your pieces in your web site and liked a lot both, the composition and the realism.
The main purpose of most of us when posting here is to share some musical piece and get feedback form experts, that is the only way to learn.
Thanks Jon
Luis