Symphony "Beyond" was created for a poem "Beyond" by Sergey Arkhipenko:
Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan.
Illusion of time
Is carrying us through
From dreaming of real
To actual dream.
We tend to believe
That night becomes day,
That we fall in love,
That... everything else.
We think we pursue
Some serious goals -
A way to achieve
Satisfaction or grief.
Stand up, fall again,
Repeat countless times
And glory will come,
But it will be brief.
We sometimes can feel
Our blinded eyes
Could open and see,
Thus making us full...
Instead we are told
(It's actually lies)
That over ourselves
We kind of rule.
The rhythm of thoughts
Is keeping us dense -
No second to doubt
Or make a full stop.
A beautiful mind
Is building a fence:
Not even a shout
Can come over top.
Illusion preferred.
We colour the world.
What if we break out?
Well, how can I know.
Let's try to observe
The Universe curled,
Not asking about
The meaning of flow.
I selected a different color for each verse and created a plan for this symphony:
All the videos used were shot by me.
This is my longest symphonic piece to date. I was suprised that it took more than a month and 167 versions to create due to many instruments and libraries:
Libraries used:
- Trio Broz Viola & Cello. Legato is very abrupt (fingering only).
- Chris Hein Solo violin. Bugs with fast legato transitions when changing articulation (can become uncontrollably loud).
- Light and sound - chamber strings
- Chris Hein Solo/Section trumpet, trombone
- Auddict - Master Brass. You need to use both CC1 and CC11 to achieve smooth cresc/dim. Extremely abrupt difference between staccato dynamic layers (can be at least corrected with CC11).
- Native instruments - Woodwinds Ensemble/Solo - Do not allow easily to fade dynamics to ppp. Vibrato cannot be controlled in legato patches.
- Native instruments - Strings Ensemble. Viola harmonics have very long release tail.Vibrato cannot be controlled in legato patches.
- Embertone - Herring Clarinet. Beautiful sound as usual for Embertone. Two types of brilliant legato. Low control of dynamics after first note has been played (cannot fade out but can crescendo). Strange abrupt noises in long notes sometimes. Stepped abrupt dynamic responce of trill (cannot do cresc/dim). Note overlaps not needed for legato (+).
- Hephaestus Sounds - Concert Flute. Very cheap ($10) and small (75Mb) instrument. Dynamics is controlled by velocity. Cannot cresc/dim. 3 dynamic layers + flutter/shout. Vibrato cannot be removed.
- 8dio - CAGE Brass
- Spitfire - BML Horn Section
- Spitfire - Percussion Redux + HZ01
- Northern woodwinds Oboe - no manual. no support. sound has many uncontrollable spots.
I used dry sound for all instruments except Spitfire Percussion and Spitfire BML Horns. To dry instruments I added Virtual Sound Stage 2.0 and Aether reverb with this stage:
Virtal - Beyond.mp3
virtal_-_beyond_midi.zip
virtal_-_beyond.pdf