Spinous - Neptilos - Sad Rain (Adagio for strings and oboe)
NEPTILOS is another side project of mine which involves creating instrumental music, from lounge into soundtrack music with classical and ethnical influences.
For this track I decided to compose an Adagio featuring strings and oboe. I am not really a typical classical composer and although I can read and write music and know music theory, composing classical music is a huge chalenge for me.
First we have a huge heritage of music in this music genre with great minds involved. Everybody knows their names, no need to write names. Pop and Rock have been on this planet only for 50-60 years, classical music has been around for more than 600-700 years.
Classical music is an highly complex subject, involving lots of rules in terms of music composition as well as instrumentation and sound aesthethics, which I don't master at all. Possibly for a professional composer this work is full of "errors" (that would not surprise me lol)
The piece divides itself in basically three parts: the intro with strings only, the middle section with the oboe melody involved and the last section of the music with a main theme repeated.
I really like the combination of the oboe with the cello, it creates a rather moody and melancholic texture. I also decided to create layers of high pitch violins playing at a lower level, which really support the music and at the same time create space for the oboe to shine.
The piece of work was created with a computer, so it is not real players playing... I did try to use MIDI the best way I could in order to give this work an organic and natural feeling.
Unfortunately I lost the project and the score of this piece which is really bad since I wanted in the future to record it with a real ensemble !