[Player 0]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=7QtU9jhlalM

Thought I'd start this thread with a clip that i doubt many people would expect of me.

[Ruriko Ikusawa]

Anime t.A.T.u Music Video (Gomenasai).

[Player 0]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eY4O6x0H6io

The inquisition finds this heresy unpalatable

[Ruriko Ikusawa]

[Sampanviking]

An old favourite Brian Eno's "The True Wheel" with a video that attempts to do it justice.

[Ruriko Ikusawa]

[Red Fox Ace]

I composed this a while back.


http://loquacist.xan...670862070/item/

[Sampanviking]

Wow - that was far better than anything I was expecting - in fact it was very good, not just technically (I don't think I heard a single bum note) but a piece that really captured the sense of the subject.

It most enjoyable and highly listenable.

You are a genuinely skilled musician and composer. How long have you been playing?

Ever thought of going electronic? I think if you discovered sequencers and arpeggiators you could become an unstoppable monster

[Red Fox Ace]

Sampanviking, on Jul 19 2010, 04:30 AM, said:

You are a genuinely skilled musician and composer. How long have you been playing?

Thank you.


I took piano lessons as a child, so I've played piano for about.......15 years. I've only been composing for the past five or six, though, and it's been purely in the amateur sense. I hope to be able to compose soundtracks for movies some day - it's my pet hobby/dream, but music is an extremely competitive field.


I occasionally record some songs and put them online.



Here's another one, written for a college comedy/talent show:

http://loquacist.xan...-birthday-song/

[Sampanviking]

Again an excellent piece Fox. I did enjoy your development and inversions of the main theme, which never really went away.

Soundtrack work is very difficult to get into, you need to be either connected or very lucky indeed.

One suggestion that springs to mind, based on your playing style and which could in time make you connections and open doors.
Your style is very compatible with playing along to the old black and white silent movies, providing you have the stamina to keep it going.

If you were able to do this and form/join an association to give public performances of these old movies with a proper live piano accompaniment, you would probably get to meet some useful people as they would be likely to be among the audience attracted to such events.

[Red Fox Ace]

Sampanviking, on Jul 21 2010, 05:06 AM, said:

One suggestion that springs to mind, based on your playing style and which could in time make you connections and open doors.
Your style is very compatible with playing along to the old black and white silent movies, providing you have the stamina to keep it going.

If you were able to do this and form/join an association to give public performances of these old movies with a proper live piano accompaniment, you would probably get to meet some useful people as they would be likely to be among the audience attracted to such events.

Thank you for the advice.

I plan on recording an amateur music CD at some point and perhaps copyrighting and seeing what can be done with it. Perhaps the only way to see is to test the waters.


Regarding the soundtrack business - it's actually one reason I've hoped to return to Taiwan or China. The American film and entertainment industry has already been saturated from top to bottom. In China, however, there will likely be an exploding film industry in the years to come, and I may be able to find an opportunity somewhere, even if it's a small one.