pixie_twinkle 44 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Recently large groups of people across the world have been standing still for five minutes to cause a scene and amuse passers by. The first time was in Grand Central Station in January of 2008. A few days ago it happened outside the Louvre in Paris and my good friend David Roy was there with his camera to record the event. He posted the resulting montage to You Tube, accompanied by a piece for small string ensemble called "Parisian Rain" by yours truly. He did a wonderful job of cutting the images in time to the music, and I was really pleased that the Parisian tone of my tune fitted the occasion so well. Anyway, I haven't ever posted any of my music to the board before but now you can finally hear some. Hope you like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 152 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Pixie, that's fantastic! I clicked on the link before reading anything you wrote, and the first thing that came to mind was rain. You really captured that spirit fantastically, it's a great piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,095 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 It kinda loses effectiveness with the still pictures. But your music is great. Nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 1,394 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Very nice indeed. I'm really enjoying it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Williamsfan301 11 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Now, Pixie, is there any thing you could do with Chocolate Rain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thanks a bunch Williamsfan! I'd never heard of Chocolate Rain until I saw your last post. I checked it out on You Tube and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,064 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Good work Pixie! I didn't know you compose. And so well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,095 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 You should put this piece on your site. That way I can put it in my iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Williamsfan301 11 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thanks a bunch Williamsfan! I'd never heard of Chocolate Rain until I saw your last post. I checked it out on You Tube and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH>Always glad to help. Isn't that the most annoying crap ever, though?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,519 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 A great piece Pixie! and I found that it fitted very well with the images.Thanks a bunch Williamsfan! I'd never heard of Chocolate Rain until I saw your last post. I checked it out on You Tube and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH>Always glad to help. Isn't that the most annoying crap ever, though?!Hey check out Cherry Chocolate Rain and then say that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,017 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Good work Pixie! I didn't know you compose. And so well!Indeed, I like it a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Recently large groups of people across the world have been standing still for five minutes to cause a scene and amuse passers by. The first time was in Grand Central Station in January of 2008. A few days ago it happened outside the Louvre in Paris and my good friend David Roy was there with his camera to record the event. He posted the resulting montage to You Tube, accompanied by a piece for small string ensemble called "Parisian Rain" by yours truly. He did a wonderful job of cutting the images in time to the music, and I was really pleased that the Parisian tone of my tune fitted the occasion so well. Anyway, I haven't ever posted any of my music to the board before but now you can finally hear some. Hope you like it. Hey, it sounds great. The ensemble sounds wonderful. Great job! Very nice feelings this evokes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thanks everyone My webpage is actually hosted by someone else and I don't know how much space there is for adding music files. One day I'd really like to build my own webpage myself and have music playing when it opens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,442 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 The piece is very nice, I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thanks a bunch Williamsfan! I'd never heard of Chocolate Rain until I saw your last post. I checked it out on You Tube and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH>Always glad to help. Isn't that the most annoying crap ever, though?!However this made me laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Williamsfan301 11 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thanks a bunch Williamsfan! I'd never heard of Chocolate Rain until I saw your last post. I checked it out on You Tube and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH>Always glad to help. Isn't that the most annoying crap ever, though?!However this made me laugh: :cool:A great piece Pixie! and I found that it fitted very well with the images.Thanks a bunch Williamsfan! I'd never heard of Chocolate Rain until I saw your last post. I checked it out on You Tube and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH>Always glad to help. Isn't that the most annoying crap ever, though?!Hey check out Cherry Chocolate Rain and then say that!Wow...why can't that happen to me, ya know? Come up with something stupid that everyone thinks is great and get paid enough to never work again? I guess I'm trying to hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,391 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 That was a lovely piece of music pixie, you're very talented indeed. Happy composing in the future :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 Thanks Quint.Jeshopk, the ensemble is even more impressive when you realise it's actually a string quartet pretending to be a string orchestra by overdubbing themselves a few times! They must have learnt something from Marc the horn player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Williamsfan301 11 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Thanks Quint.Jeshopk, the ensemble is even more impressive when you realise it's actually a string quartet pretending to be a string orchestra by overdubbing themselves a few times! They must have learnt something from Marc the horn player Oh, that's too cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAfonso 159 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Great music, Pixie! Really captures the local flair (at least as far as I can tell from an outside perspective ).So it's just a quartet? I was on the verge to ask, because I couldn't make out the instrumentation clearly Always hearing one voice more than I was expecting *g* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Yes and no. It's actually written for quartet and string orchestra, but for the recording the quartet overdubbed themselves to get all the parts. There are more movements to the piece. For one movement they had to overdub themselves 3 times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAfonso 159 Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Cool! Do you have more of the piece in some form to listen to? And what's the name of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted April 2, 2009 Author Share Posted April 2, 2009 It's called "Symphonies of String Instruments" (a pun on the Stravinsky title), and it was written for youth string groups and professional quartet. I have a recording of the whole thing. I may see if my friend can make more films to go with them and upload them to youtube. All together there are 5 short movements, plus a brief reprise from the first movement between the 4th and last movements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 David has uploaded another movement to You Tube. This time he cut images of a pillow fight in Paris to a jig I wrote called "Harvest Festival". I also posted this to the Composers Thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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