Working on music for paying clients can be a lot of fun. It can also be a real headache. Some clients are very hard to please. Some give you total freedom. Most of them are something in the middle. Several attempts/compositions necessary before approval. This one was like that.
This theme is so beautiful! I hope the client liked it, it was perfect as it is! It would be interesting to see a longer episode about handling the revisions and change requests in a job like this.
Totally bespoke, and yet sounds familiar. I especially appreciated how you went "big" in the third movement, but not "loud" -- it should fill acoustic space nicely when the dialog ends, and whatever comes next happens. Nicely done, sir.
Hi Essen, thanks for sharing - very nice. I would be curious to see the result with the movie. If that is possible, is it an international production, can I see it here in Switzerland. Are you allowed to tell us the name of the movie? Once again thank you very much and happy new year for 2025!
Very nice Espen. Can I add something. Everything was great but I would do different last 3 bass notes to end the work like it’s going to be continued. This is a love story, don’t end the music. Leave it open end meaning it ends right there but the bass goes somewhere else meaning it can or will continue or even time clicks fading out to infinity Just an idea I hope you don’t mind
When I post videos like this it means the production has ended a long time ago. And the results are what you hear in the videos. I never post videos like this looking for musical inputs or advice. I do appreciate the engagement though, and what you're suggesting might very well be a piece of advice someone else might use for their own arrangements or productions, so I thank you for that.
Some time ago, you had told us you were working on two games which you couldn't talk about. Can you talk about them now, and is there any place we can go to look up your list of work credits?
As you know, making games takes a lot of time. The development can take years. And then some. Music is often one of the first things to be made. When I can talk I will.
Several times throughout my career. It's important to differentiate between the composition and the recording. THAT recording of the music belongs to the client (provided he's paid for it and all that), and only he can give me permission to reuse it somewhere else, like on my channel. The COMPOSITION is of course mine, the intellectual property, and as such I can record the music myself, again, and do with that as I please. The client never buys the intellectual property, only the specific recordings of it.
Maybe you mentioned it in an earlier video, but why no MIDI recording of hardware synths ? Not enough resolution in capturing the performance? Nice tune btw, really moving.
I sometimes do replace certain vst parts with the hardware as the last thing I do, but only after approval and only if doing so really enhances the final mix. As the years roll I do that less and less as there's not anything to gain.
@@SoundAuthor Haven't you ever fallen in love with a piece of gear? I'm currently over the moon for the Neumann MT48. This composition perfectly captures how I feel for it when I'm away. And how it sings back to me when I return. 😉💕
Working on music for paying clients can be a lot of fun. It can also be a real headache.
Some clients are very hard to please. Some give you total freedom.
Most of them are something in the middle. Several attempts/compositions necessary before approval.
This one was like that.
Really quite moving. Evokes feelings of longing, love, sadness, desire, and wistfulness. Absolutely perfect.
This theme is so beautiful! I hope the client liked it, it was perfect as it is! It would be interesting to see a longer episode about handling the revisions and change requests in a job like this.
I'll get back to a video like that sometimes later. Cheers
Totally bespoke, and yet sounds familiar. I especially appreciated how you went "big" in the third movement, but not "loud" -- it should fill acoustic space nicely when the dialog ends, and whatever comes next happens. Nicely done, sir.
Thank you for the lesson. I needed that.
For some reason this piece makes me think of Shattered Dreams by Johnny Hates Jazz. Very nice arrangement.
Definitely food for thought and useful for developing compositional skills. My music teacher used to recommend doing things like this.
great insights as usual, many thanks Espen
Great info...!! Thanx
Thank Espin, great sounds and skills
Nice feels.
This is great. Thank you.
More of these 🤘🏻
Pretty sure this used was used for the love scene in 'The Room".
Hi Essen, thanks for sharing - very nice. I would be curious to see the result with the movie. If that is possible, is it an international production, can I see it here in Switzerland. Are you allowed to tell us the name of the movie? Once again thank you very much and happy new year for 2025!
This is not made for a movie. I never said that. The composition and arrangement is made for a paying client. Cheers
That PG u1 Sine attack sounds great at the start
I canny get my jx-8p to sound as lush as that on my Roland VST. Sounds great on the pg 8x.
Very nice Espen. Can I add something. Everything was great but I would do different last 3 bass notes to end the work like it’s going to be continued. This is a love story, don’t end the music. Leave it open end meaning it ends right there but the bass goes somewhere else meaning it can or will continue or even time clicks fading out to infinity
Just an idea I hope you don’t mind
When I post videos like this it means the production has ended a long time ago. And the results are what you hear in the videos. I never post videos like this looking for musical inputs or advice.
I do appreciate the engagement though, and what you're suggesting might very well be a piece of advice someone else might use for their own arrangements or productions, so I thank you for that.
Some time ago, you had told us you were working on two games which you couldn't talk about. Can you talk about them now, and is there any place we can go to look up your list of work credits?
As you know, making games takes a lot of time. The development can take years. And then some. Music is often one of the first things to be made. When I can talk I will.
@@EspenKraft Have you ever been hired for a project that never got released? What happens to your music then? Are you allowed to reuse it elsewhere?
Several times throughout my career. It's important to differentiate between the composition and the recording. THAT recording of the music belongs to the client (provided he's paid for it and all that), and only he can give me permission to reuse it somewhere else, like on my channel. The COMPOSITION is of course mine, the intellectual property, and as such I can record the music myself, again, and do with that as I please. The client never buys the intellectual property, only the specific recordings of it.
@@EspenKraft Thank you for clarifying.
Maybe you mentioned it in an earlier video, but why no MIDI recording of hardware synths ? Not enough resolution in capturing the performance? Nice tune btw, really moving.
I sometimes do replace certain vst parts with the hardware as the last thing I do, but only after approval and only if doing so really enhances the final mix. As the years roll I do that less and less as there's not anything to gain.
Two _living_ beings in love? Tcsh. Yeah. Sure. Let's just pretend that the undead don't feel love. 🙄
This video is obviously not for you. Go piss in someone else's pool.
@@EspenKraft I'm 100% not serious 😂
Haha, ok! :P
@@SoundAuthor Haven't you ever fallen in love with a piece of gear? I'm currently over the moon for the Neumann MT48. This composition perfectly captures how I feel for it when I'm away. And how it sings back to me when I return. 😉💕
A client? Your elderly neighbor?
Cheeky