Please excuse the pretense

[David Sprouse]

... I'm going to start working with pictures.  Here's my first experiment.  It's called *WHAT?*

 

Edited March 18, 2020 by David Sprouse

[bjornpdx]

"Video Unavailable. This video is private. "   says the YT message.

[Douglas Kirby]

I get the same message as Bjorn mentioned.

[DeeringAmps]

10 hours ago, David Sprouse said:

*WHAT?*

Right, that sums it up! No vid...

[Wookiee]

@David Sprouse Requires some permission changes to see David.

[David Sprouse]

Does this work?

http://davidsprouse.bandcamp.com/track/what

Edited March 18, 2020 by David Sprouse

[DeeringAmps]

The music plays, but just the one picture.

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[PhonoBrainer]

I think it's just supposed to be a static picture. ? The music is a bit of a macabre circus. And is inventive. I'd say keep throwing those pics up there , the one you chose I'm not sure if it really fits the tune you wrote. The music is elegant and the pic is, well, not super elegant. I dunno.

[Douglas Kirby]

An interesting composition - a bit macabre as emeraldsoul mentioned - I thought the brass sounded excellent.

[David Sprouse]

Doublas what are you doing up this late?  :D:DThanks for listening.  I'll have to rethink this.

Edited March 19, 2020 by David Sprouse

[David Sprouse]

3 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

I think it's just supposed to be a static picture. ? The music is a bit of a macabre circus. And is inventive. I'd say keep throwing those pics up there , the one you chose I'm not sure if it really fits the tune you wrote. The music is elegant and the pic is, well, not super elegant. I dunno.

I appreciate you  listening, Tom.  I need to reconsider the picture.

[Wookiee]

Haunting, abstract and inventive.  Apart for some distortion in the first few bars which I suspect were more Internet than production it sounds OK here David.

[freddy j]

Very creative and inventive indeed.  I particularly like that dissonant sound (brass?) that comes in at the 0:30 mark.  It has been a doggone long time since I have listened to any classical music but if I remember correctly, this reminds me a bit of some of Stravinsky's work.  Well done!

[Johnbee58]

Interesting arrangement.  This would work well as background music for a documentary on the subject matter of the picture.

?John B

[David Sprouse]

On 3/19/2020 at 5:09 AM, Wookiee said:

Haunting, abstract and inventive.  Apart for some distortion in the first few bars which I suspect were more Internet than production it sounds OK here David.

Thanks for listening wookie.

[David Sprouse]

On 3/20/2020 at 11:21 AM, freddy j said:

Very creative and inventive indeed.  I particularly like that dissonant sound (brass?) that comes in at the 0:30 mark.  It has been a doggone long time since I have listened to any classical music but if I remember correctly, this reminds me a bit of some of Stravinsky's work.  Well done!

thank you freddy.  I thought the poor kid in the pic with his hands up was like edvard munch's *the scream*.  It's a really powerful picture;  wish I knew more about it.

[David Sprouse]

On 3/21/2020 at 1:23 PM, Johnbee58 said:

Interesting arrangement.  This would work well as background music for a documentary on the subject matter of the picture.

?John B

Interesting idea John.

[Makke]

Interesting combination. The music fits well to pics ambiance.

Something scary and exciting is happening in the picture.

[Lynn Wilson]

On 3/18/2020 at 6:38 PM, David Sprouse said:

Does this work?

http://davidsprouse.bandcamp.com/track/what

Yes!  This does work.  The picture is disturbing once you study it, and the music, with its dissonance, conveys that mood very well.  The piece is mixed very well, also.  Kudos!

[bjornpdx]

David

Sounds really good to my ear. You have a feel for how the instruments should work together.
Bit of a disconnect between the image and the music so I'm not sure what the story is.
 
I like the music though I thought it needed something more in the background, more strings maybe? But I don't know anything about orchestral arrangements so I'm just a casual listener offering an opinion, whatever that's worth.