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Channels:

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Song Length:

15

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43

Instruments:

22

Patterns:

21

Tracks:

1

Track length:

504

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                Midnight Tempest Concerto        (3:30)
 
                by Eterman in 30.10.2000


        Despite the strong orchestral background, this, naturally, is
 a piano concerto. Raging, distant, wandering stormscape creates the
 nightly mood around a lonely observer, whose toughts and experiences the
 solo piano is mostly meant to represent. Mostly influenced by composers
 from the romaticism (what I have listened are for example Ernst Mielck,
 Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov, Sergei Rachmaninov and of course Jean Sibelius)
 but there are some modern influences as well. The song I listened during
 the early phases of the composition, was Richard Addinsell's Warsaw
 concerto. The beautiful melodies there inspired me to start this 
 ambitious project. Especially the pattern 4 remainds me of that
 Addinsell's masterpiece, although considering the harmonies themselves,
 there is only faint resemblance to be found.

        Weather, the inspiration for this composition. Gently raving rain,
 anxiously wandering clouds, a cold breeze of night; What am I in the
 middle of all this? What do these swift changes, this strange,
 intriguing performance in the skies, try to tell me? 

        I have to say this has been the hardest piece of tracking
 work I've ever tried. Sometimes despite of much work I did so little
 progress, I didn't believe this piece would ever come alive. But still,
 somewhere in my head, this simple, small thought dwelled telling me the
 work was worth the effort. 
        This faith lingered strong enough to always take me back to
 the chair, back to my audio equipment, at my computer, back to work. I
 just had to press forward. Sometimes I did not know what I was doing. I
 had glimpses of inspiration in my mind, but with the tracking, it seemed
 just all so messy. But I created. I made parts and with great pains
 succeeded in arranging them all together.This was not only hard to track,
 the composition took at least an equal amount of time. This time I
 wanted to give the best notal quality I could.
        If something, this project made me pine for some kind of MIDI
 equipment. It's rathrer annoying, not to be able to play ones ideas down.
 Mostly all inspiration I get, goes first to my fingers. And that's where
 I have the original version of this piano concerto. I just can't track it
 down here the way I feel like. 
        Not that it was that bad, the influence added at the tracking
 process, actually. I like it myself. For example that pattern 14 was
 created completely trough the tracking process. There was no glimpses
 of such melodies in my head before I tracked them down there. Some
 "fantasy" influence, I think. It is not in the "original" version, only
 here, as tracked. I think it fits well. For me that phase brings a sudden
 burst of brightness, as clouds are slightly swept away letting the sun
 gradually reveal some of its shine once again.
        Afterall, this composition may even have benefitted from the
 tracking process. Sometimes it's easier to experience certain melody
 structures and harmonies in the tracking program itself, and that brings
 a lot of fresh influences that would not be here otherwise.
        Still, some day, I wish I could hear an orchestra and a
 good pianist playing this concerto in its finest, original form. Now I
 can only imagine the orchestral presence. Nevertheless, in this tracked
 version, for me, the vision of nightly storm comes easier. 
        I guess all the forms of composing have their own advantages.
 Writing notes manually may sometimes be painful (at least for me), but as
 to this particular piece of music, the first pattern, for example, was
 first only written to notes on a piece of paper. Being not the most
 skillful piano player around, I could not completely play or imagine the
 actual sound of those notes, before I tracked them down, but the result
 is still fine.


        Some greets: (you people are cool)      
        
        A51 DNA, BAm, BeatBoostie, Bluesummer, Claude, Cykiq, Da Freaker,
 D Fast, Fermus, Idaho, Mad God, Pete Cacmac, Pikari, PlasticMind, 
 Psychic Mind, Ralesk, Saviour, Space Walk, Stumbleine, TanTo Hashi, Tero,
 TONi, Tranzity, Twilight Terror, Ufopoli, WDM, White Edge, Whiz, Zaki,
 Zookeeper

        In wandering clouds I see,
        a sudden reflection of me.
        As my mind anxiously seeks,
        surrounded by thundery peaks,
        if words I say, apart from rain,
        won't just swiftly fall in vain.


  -Harri Kivisto 
                                                eterman@writeme.com





 And one thing I almost forgot:

        Some chords:

    
 1. Fm    Bb7   Eb    Cm    Db    G     G7    Cm
    Ab    F     Bbm   Gb7   B     G     Dm    Bb
 6. Cm                      Bb
    Fm7         Bb    Gm7   Ab    Eb    F
 7. Cm          Eb    Bb    Cm7         Bb
    Fm7                     Cm          Gm7
 8. Ab          Cm          Ab          Eb    Gm7
    Db          Bbm         F           G
 9. Ab          Cm          Db          Fm
    Gb    Bbm   C     Fm    Db    Cm    Eb    Gm7

• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Eterman
• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Eterman/midnight tempest concerto.it
• https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=41805

1. Piano
2. Piano
3. Xylophone
4. Harpsichord
5. Brass Attack
6. Brass Strike
7. Reed Ensemble
8. Trombone
9. Trombone
10. Oboe
11. Background Woodwinds
12. Soft Clarinet
13. Strings
14. Strings
15. Strings 2
16. Strings 2
17. Strings 2
18. Classical Strings
19. Violins
20. Cello
21. Women's Choir
22. Men's Choir