Steven Wiesberg

Yes, I know this effect very well. Additionally, the steps of the staircases don't have the same length; there are two short steps followed by a long step. So it's really hard for me to walk in a sober way. I think it's because the lights go on too fastly. They should go on as slowly as a sunrise, so you've got enough time to wake up again. Just get up when everyone else gets up, so no one can focus on you, although you might miss the end credits that way.

I'm sorry, Damo, it's probably due to my bad English... so I'll try to explain it in other words: 1) I take a recording of classical / film music, lets say "The Planets" by Holst. 2) I put the CD into the CD-drive of my PC and transform the piece into a WAV-file (freeware "CDcopy"). 3) Then I listen to it carefully and try to find moments when only one single instrument can be heard. For example a solo part of a flute. 4) I cut off everything before and everything after one single note played by the flute. So maybe a "d" played by a flute is extracted and can be saved in my personal collection folder. By performing steps 1 to 4 a few times for various instruments and notes, I get a small collection of sounds. It can be enlarged by transposing the notes with freeware like "Goldwave" (e.g. transform the "d" into an "e"). 5) Now the composing begins. Using non-freeware like Samplitude or Cubase, you put the single sounds (notes) on a time scale. So instead of writing the notes on a piece of paper, you put the corresponding sound files on this time scale. It's a quite similar process. When finally the piece should be recorded, all single short WAV-files are automatically combined to one large WAV-file, by using the time scale. But some instruments are also played with my (non-MIDI-)keyboard, I just play on it in a normal way, record the sounds it generates and put them into the composition. So it's quite weird and complicated, but cheap as I already have the software. Stefan

Thank you Jack Chapple and Magical Me, it's very charming to hear that there are also some positive aspects about my piece. Since I have only few theoretical knowledge, I didn't know whether it was totally inappropriate or even "false" in a sense. Yes, I know the sound quality is quite poor (the composition is even poorer, of course :-) ). Well, I don't use any professional software like Giga Studio, but I've extracted single notes played by various instruments from the CDs I own. With some freeware I can change the length of these short sound clips and even transpose them (change the note). Then I combine these single notes to obtain a composition (I think this is similar to what Giga Studio does in the background). But it's quite hard to stay on the beat and to calculate the exact time factors my sound clips must be multiplied with (for every single note!). And since many sound clips sound too unrealistic if they are used in specific ways, I can only choose from a small range of possible instruments and instrumental "actions". So I hope this will be accepted as an excuse for the low quality :-). Thanks very much for listening, Steven Wiesberg, not Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh (pherhaps I should direct instead of writing the music)

Damo, Hornist and AI, thank you for your honest comments! Although your criticism was very constructive and helpful (too slow, too weird, poor timing, ...), I guess I'll concentrate more on playing soccer than on playing music in the future :-). But thanks for listening anyways; now I'm really sorry that you've wasted your time on it, of course, but it's good to have some realistic opinions. And a 5.2 on a Williams scale could be worse and sounds really okay to me for my totally unprofessional purpose :-). You're right, Hornist, there was this "Helicopter Theme" in it. I usually call it "Journey to the Island"-Theme, but I don't know its correct name. It starts at 0'48'' (first part of the theme) and later on at 1'09'' (following part). Have a nice day, Stefan

Hello everybody, to begin with I'd like to say that I really appreciated the music posted on this site, it's on a high level and it's easy to recognize that some of you are musical professionals. Being neither a composer nor a musician, I just enjoy recording some music in my free time with my old keyboard. As I don't know much about musical theory, I'd really appreciate your comments and hints, since you are experts on film music (so if you dislike the whole piece, feel free to tell me so). So this is one of my first compositions ever. It's a theme for "Jurassic Park 4", although the movie doesn't exist. What do you think of it? Should I find myself another hobby? http://www.stefanwiesberg.de/Stefan_Wiesbe...sic_Park_IV.mp3 Thanks for listening and have a nice day, Stefan