ahhh this is so surreal! I had no clue that you had a pretty active UA-cam channel! I remember being absolutely obsessed with the Starbound OST when the game came out. I had the soundtrack on the iPod Shuffle, and I distinctly remember pressing the voice-over button and hearing "Vast, Immortal Suns - Curtis Schweitzer" and thinking "Wow this music is so great, it's a shame this artists isn't recognizes so much" and fast forward some years, and like, you made music for freaking *Halo*!! That's so cool! Right before I was typing this, I've been trying to learn M54 on guitar and just decided to search UA-cam for your name and I am so surprised and happy that your still active. You've been a huge inspiration to me and I hope that on my journey to learn music and guitar, I may be able to step into more in depth compositions like the ones you make. (As a side question, if you remember that M54 piece from Starbound... how exactly do you master the timing? I'm still pretty new to guitar, and the piece is so delicate and slow that I struggle timing the notes properly. Is there even a BPM to reference? or did you play by feel?)
@@GenericHuman54 Hey! Glad you found me here-- thanks for the kind words! Yeah M54 is not governed by a strict tempo. Everything is very rubato and expressive- there isn’t a “right” way to play it. Just put your own emotions into the performance! :) I originally recorded it straight into the DAW in a single take, just feeling it, so you should just play it the way that feels best to you.
Also thank you for the condensed score for reading along. That's a good idea to make the sheet music accessible for following the structures without having to decipher smallest details in a super large score.
I have been struggling to figure out the best way to get score videos up on UA-cam. I see a lot of channels that post just wonderfully well-done score videos, and while I know I can't quite get to the level of hand-cropped and condensed scores like them, I'm always trying to find a workflow that lets me create the videos quickly so that I can spend more time composing! Glad this one was legible-- I'm still learning the best way, but good to know I'm on the right track!
I've loved your music since the Starbound days. It is on par with Final Fantasy Tactics Ost, which is my favorite game of all time. Many thanks for this. ❤🙏
I am certainly glad to have you along! Loyal listeners are such an important part of my motivation, so I appreciate you very much! Hope you enjoy the piece.
@@alontrigger yeah I find it makes it easy to write but you can still leverage the engraving power of Dorico while still getting DAW quality playback! Like a dream workflow IMHO
I particularly enjoyed the dense textures and the intense dissonances that resulted. I love the seriousness, the ominous feeling that grows in the 2nd half of the symphony. Much that is beautiful, and also rich with ambiguity of feeling, which for me adds a layer of complexity...not to know exactly what you feel at a given moment, only that you feel intensely alive and thrilled. I did wish there was more of sense of momentum and more sense of formal differentiation especially in the 1st two movements...only in the 3rd movement did I begin to feel that it was building toward something. That was my only reservation about this exemplary symphony.
@@johnpcomposer thank you for the helpful and well written feedback! I certainly think you are spot on with your critique- and of course I appreciate the kind words! I am out of town at the moment but I will try to find some time to stop by your channel and return the favor!
@@CurtisSchweitzer PS I also appreciated how you presented the score...I have yet to present a score video as I have not at all experiemented with how to do it and I realize that it's no good having a big score that nobody can follow.
@@johnpcomposer I have been looking to the UA-cam channels that do score videos for already extant music for ideas- at the moment I’d like to get a bit better at the practice, but I will admit it has been a long slog. This uses Dorico’s condensing and hide empty staves features in tandem to get the maximum space possible onto the page- I haven’t quite figured out how to iron out some of the problem sections (crossing parts in 1/2 are the most illegible for me, but there are plenty of other things that also get a bit messy during the condensing process that I would like to be able to make clearer. Boosey & Hawks put up a John Adams piece that looks absolutely divine on their video- would like to approach that level of presentation someday, but still a ways out in my engraving knowledge. In any case, suffice it to say I think the “score video” is a very difficult genre to put on UA-cam!
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once again, you haven't failed to make me hate how much you are underappreciated
ahhh this is so surreal! I had no clue that you had a pretty active UA-cam channel! I remember being absolutely obsessed with the Starbound OST when the game came out. I had the soundtrack on the iPod Shuffle, and I distinctly remember pressing the voice-over button and hearing "Vast, Immortal Suns - Curtis Schweitzer" and thinking "Wow this music is so great, it's a shame this artists isn't recognizes so much" and fast forward some years, and like, you made music for freaking *Halo*!! That's so cool!
Right before I was typing this, I've been trying to learn M54 on guitar and just decided to search UA-cam for your name and I am so surprised and happy that your still active. You've been a huge inspiration to me and I hope that on my journey to learn music and guitar, I may be able to step into more in depth compositions like the ones you make.
(As a side question, if you remember that M54 piece from Starbound... how exactly do you master the timing? I'm still pretty new to guitar, and the piece is so delicate and slow that I struggle timing the notes properly. Is there even a BPM to reference? or did you play by feel?)
@@GenericHuman54 Hey! Glad you found me here-- thanks for the kind words!
Yeah M54 is not governed by a strict tempo. Everything is very rubato and expressive- there isn’t a “right” way to play it. Just put your own emotions into the performance! :)
I originally recorded it straight into the DAW in a single take, just feeling it, so you should just play it the way that feels best to you.
Beethoven, wake up, Schweitzer plays his second symphony
Wait, you are deaf, no worries, you can read the notes then!
Also thank you for the condensed score for reading along. That's a good idea to make the sheet music accessible for following the structures without having to decipher smallest details in a super large score.
I have been struggling to figure out the best way to get score videos up on UA-cam. I see a lot of channels that post just wonderfully well-done score videos, and while I know I can't quite get to the level of hand-cropped and condensed scores like them, I'm always trying to find a workflow that lets me create the videos quickly so that I can spend more time composing! Glad this one was legible-- I'm still learning the best way, but good to know I'm on the right track!
I've loved your music since the Starbound days. It is on par with Final Fantasy Tactics Ost, which is my favorite game of all time. Many thanks for this. ❤🙏
I am certainly glad to have you along! Loyal listeners are such an important part of my motivation, so I appreciate you very much!
Hope you enjoy the piece.
🥹 SO GOOD!!!!!
Lovely! Which notation software and playback did you use?
@@alontrigger This is playback from StaffPad (using Berlin samples), imported into Dorico for the engraving.
@@CurtisSchweitzer wonderful. That's my workflow too. I enjoy listening to your music.
@@alontrigger yeah I find it makes it easy to write but you can still leverage the engraving power of Dorico while still getting DAW quality playback! Like a dream workflow IMHO
I particularly enjoyed the dense textures and the intense dissonances that resulted. I love the seriousness, the ominous feeling that grows in the 2nd half of the symphony. Much that is beautiful, and also rich with ambiguity of feeling, which for me adds a layer of complexity...not to know exactly what you feel at a given moment, only that you feel intensely alive and thrilled. I did wish there was more of sense of momentum and more sense of formal differentiation especially in the 1st two movements...only in the 3rd movement did I begin to feel that it was building toward something. That was my only reservation about this exemplary symphony.
@@johnpcomposer thank you for the helpful and well written feedback! I certainly think you are spot on with your critique- and of course I appreciate the kind words! I am out of town at the moment but I will try to find some time to stop by your channel and return the favor!
@@CurtisSchweitzer PS I also appreciated how you presented the score...I have yet to present a score video as I have not at all experiemented with how to do it and I realize that it's no good having a big score that nobody can follow.
@@johnpcomposer I have been looking to the UA-cam channels that do score videos for already extant music for ideas- at the moment I’d like to get a bit better at the practice, but I will admit it has been a long slog. This uses Dorico’s condensing and hide empty staves features in tandem to get the maximum space possible onto the page- I haven’t quite figured out how to iron out some of the problem sections (crossing parts in 1/2 are the most illegible for me, but there are plenty of other things that also get a bit messy during the condensing process that I would like to be able to make clearer.
Boosey & Hawks put up a John Adams piece that looks absolutely divine on their video- would like to approach that level of presentation someday, but still a ways out in my engraving knowledge. In any case, suffice it to say I think the “score video” is a very difficult genre to put on UA-cam!
Это очень круто. Мне всегда нравилась ваша музыка и саундтреки к играм!
I love this