Danses Gothiques

an overture for an unknown opera or a very good film-music - a lot of emotions

a bit strange, like whole tone scales, but sounds very nice to me. Debussy more than Stravinsky I think... but it's better not to compare... I do not believe that his intention is to turn into a new Mozart but to compose good and original things... and to my taste he achieves it.

It's very hard for me to review this track but is my understanding that a bit more variation on the melody will make it more vivace and interesting Now I'm not saying that I don't like it but surely it'll be better also the use of a more precise mastering suite with a bit more work on the compression side will help you a lot on this type of music...Bright idea keep doing ya thang.

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Dj cuqui

The whole-tone scale is a rather easy solution and used rather predictably in my opinion (a scale going up and down is not a melody!). Try listening to some music of Olivier Messian for more insights on that.

Musically it tends to get a bit boring... (Sorry). You should really have more going on (melodic-wise and orchestration-wise), be less homophonic at times. You need to work more with your material. At this point it's no more than a presentation of a couple of ideas. Perhaps that is because this is No.3 of a three (or more) part compositions. I would like to hear the bigger picture.

Orchestration is not bad but very repetitive! The sounds are poor... I mean if you really want to "conduct" an orchestra, REASON is a bad idea... Try EWQL Symphonic Orchestra for better results. (Or Vienna Instruments if you can get your hands on that beast!).

Hope to hear No.1 and 2 soon for the bigger picture. (Sorry for the "bad" review but that's what makes you move forward, not the "great music, like a soundtrack" stuff...)

PS. As-Dur? Is it really? In my humble opinion, contemporary works are not often defined by tonality, unless they are truly tonal. Perhaps your tonal focus is A-flat (the note), but I don't know if you can really say that the piece is on A-flat major.

...I suppose it could pass as a soundtrack but the sound is just not right...

thanks 4 sharing :)