Finished!

Hello all,

For my Record Time VI project, I intentionally didn't really have much of a plan starting out. I wanted to simply start writing and see where it took me. About halfway through Monday, however, I decided that I wanted to use this week to produce at least one demo track that I had been wanting to write to promote myself. I had been wanting to compose an orchestral action/thriller demo piece that incorporated electronic or techno elements, much in the style of the music you hear in many movies, video games and tv shows today. So I started that on Monday, and since I wanted it to be as detailed and professional as I could make it within a reasonable amount of time, I worked exclusively on that until Thursday.

While I had been working on that, I decided I wanted to try a much more experimental 'sound mass' piece for orchestra. I chose to base it on the idea of limbo, and used orchestra with boy's choir. I began writing this on Thursday and finished it on Friday.

Saturday started off with me working on a composition for which I have had the melody for a long time. However, I ultimately decided to throw this idea out exclusively because it's a slow tempo piece and I didn't want to include two very slow compositions on a such a short album (the other being the sound mass one). So, I spent the remainder of the day adding finishing touches to the previous two pieces.

On Sunday, I started writing my first real attempt at some sort of Afro-Cuban music, which ended up also having some Thomas Newman-ish elements to it, which I'm definitely cool with. Also on Sunday, I went back and resurrected what I had originally written on Monday, touched it up, and presented it as an intermission track.

Overall, I can definitely say I'm pleased with my project. I didn't give it an album title because I don't really consider it an album, but rather a collection of unrelated pieces of music. Although it's only 4 tracks, it's longer in length than my previous Record Time album, and unlike it, every note of music here was conceived during this week. I'm definitely glad to have been a part of this again and look forward to hearing all of your music!

I didn't mean to make this post so long,
Andrew