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Spitfire Audio approached me to take a look at their new Contemporary Drama Toolkit (CDT), a series of sounds curated by the composer Samuel Sim. Needless to say, I liked it rather a lot, and so out came this video and track. For full disclosure, Spitfire Audio gave me a copy of the library that I can keep - which is why I've tagged the video as "sponsored". That said, should you wish to take a look at it or buy it, do please do so via this link (it's on sale for two more days): - bit.ly/2Z6B2Ut
It was very nice to hear from Spitfire, not only as a fan of their work, but also because I've long-nursed a dream of writing music for film/screen/games, as well as inheriting a deep appreciation of "texture" in (orchestral) music from my father, a classical music composer (Hafliði Hallgrímsson - / haflidihallgrimsson .
As inspiration I took a phrase "The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama." attributed to Thornton Wilder, a playwright, novelist and scriptwriter. As a photographer as well as a musician, this "battle" between the eye and the ear has always interested me. When I was young I started listening to concerts with my eyes shut, in particular when an orchestra was playing. While I assume Mr Wilder was pointing out how much tension and suspense can be generated by things that we don't see, I leant here towards the simple act of shutting off our visual cortex, which uses so much of our brain's energy, to listen more carefully, and to go on a flight of fantasy with our mind.
An introduction and some thoughts on CDT: with this library Spitfire Audio aim to give a toolkit for scoring to picture that is quite immediate and clever, while of course not being all-encompassing. Many libraries usually ask you to give expression to sounds using sliders - of which I'm not hugely in favour of, perhaps most of all because I tend to play everything live and often don't have time or spare fingers to use them. With CDT, instruments and combinations of patches react to velocity (while still offering sliders for some parameters). This is a good start - but with MPE now all around us, that is clearly the next frontier for me and these kinds of sounds - with Live 11, Polyphonic Pressure has come to Push, and I've rarely been more excited by what this will open up (see • Pressure - Ableton Liv... ) . I have written music with "classical music" sounds since 1994, and the biggest barrier has always been the lack of expression one can get out of them with most modern input methods. CDT goes some way towards improving this situation. In conjunction with Push there are nice moments to be found, but one does need to both adjust Push's velocity sensitivity (with the Setup button - I found something like 10 - 8 - 5 worked well), while also introducing velocity devices in Live to "focus" one's playing of velocity on the right area. Well worth the effort, as I hope the video/track attests to. You'll see me press certain notes several times at points, to get the velocity I was going for.
Some of the orchestral textures, including the very airy flautando-style playing (that you hear at the start and end of the video) are absolutely gorgeous, and made my heart sing (in particular as a former not-very-good violin player) and many of the other string instruments and combinations also excellent. The more plucked/guitar like sounds are less my thing, but clearly have a place in certain soundtracks (which is again, the goal of the library). The synth sounds are also very nice, but since these are samples like everything else, the scope for really adjusting or shaping them is much more limited than with a "real" synth. The free Kontakt player is used to host CDT.
Do check out Spitfire's many wonderful free instruments under the "Spitfire Labs" moniker, the simply wonderful pianobook project, as well as @TheCrowHillCo on YT.
I've created a subtitle track to share with you some details on how I made this track. I'm really happy with the outcome, and it's exciting to start "touching the void" that has been my long-held wish to use orchestral sounds more emotively, and in my live performances/tracks.
As always, my sincere thanks go most of all to my students/WRKSHPers at @WRKSHP who through their support of my work at the school allow me to make time to make videos like these.
If you'd like to learn everything there is to know about Push, check out the Push Bible, on wrkshp.thinkific.com/
WRKSHP on KZitem: @wrkshp
Thank you for watching, and for all the kind support - I'm regularly so touched and grateful for all the warmth and positivity that you send my way.
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