Orchestra for the win!

I must say, I love orchestras. I can't write for one very well, although I can certainly whip a number of songwriters at it. Despite the fact that I probably won't write decently for orchestra until I get to OCU, I still love trying. Right now, as crrrraaaaaaaazy as it sounds, I'm trying to compose an orchestral piece (of unknown variety to be honest) inspired by the anime Full Metal Alchemist. Yeah, I'm a weirdo when it comes to music inspiration. I'm tending lately to just watch movies and anime and then write songs about them. It works really well though.

Anyways though, this orchestra piece, while probably fraught with error, is very rewarding. It looks really wacko on paper, like all the music I write.

But, once my imagination pushes past the crappy MIDI playback voices, it actually sounds pretty good.

I pray that one day I will be able to rewrite my early orchestra works and make them spectacular. Needless to say, I pray that they get performed as well.

I also want to write an epic choral piece, epic here meaning "really complicated". After "Heart of the Furies" I can tell I have a knack for complicated harmonies. I just hope that fleshes out and becomes something exquisite. Eric Whitacre, here I come.

Well, I'd better wrap this up. I've got work in the morning. Here's the youtube video of the day. I use the hammered dulcimer in my orchestra piece, so here's an awesome example of what that sounds like.