hey sedstar
I haven't been listening to much (and therefore not commenting), because it takes so long for things to download here.
But I have just listened to you new orchestral piece. The gap between drinks reveals to me a great increase in your compositional sophistication and mastery of the instrumentation and recording process for your particular style of music.
You have done very well here. There is never a dull moment in this piece, and as it progresses, I am lured by it, wondering what is going to happen next. In this sense, the piece is like a good story that keeps you intrigued until the end.
This is great mood music, and would make an excellent movie soundtrack.
Here is an observation that you might like to consider and which you may lead you down alternative compositional paths. My sense is that your compositions are "additive", in that you start with small segments, and add to them harmonically and compositionally, progressively building up a piece. I wonder what would happen if you thought "subtractively".
You could come up with a long melody line to use as a foundation. You would then break this up into shorter and shorter phrases. These melodic chunks you then string together using your additive approach, progressively revealing more and more of the original melody line.
To show how this works, consider the sentence: "The cat sat on the mat and ate the rat". This sentence could be the melodic theme. By deconstructing and reassembling you could get:
The cat cat cat
sat sat sat
The cat sat the cat sat
on the mat
the cat sat on the mat
the cat sat on the mat
mat mat mat
sat sat sat
cat cat cat
and ate
and ate
the rat rat rat
the cat sat
on the mat
and ate the rat
the cat sat
on the mat
and ate the rat
rat
rat
rat
