Borrowed Dreams : Igor Vitkevich

September 8th, 2011

Igor Vitkevich has a new album available for download based on Visions Fugitives” (Op. 22) by Sergey Prokofiev.

Igor said this of the new album :

Music of “Visions Fugitives” is very similar to soundtracks to dreams, on my look. So you can look at BORROWED DREAMS as a certain catalog of the company which lets out such specific product as DREAMS BY REQUEST. No more uncontrolled dreams! You lie down in bed, connect “dreamvision”, choose number in the catalog, for example “a dream № 379″ and press “play” or “sleep”.  It is very “intimate” music,with fragile character, full of semitones, twilights, incomplete lines… I  wanted to keep spirit of this work very much and I hope that it has turned out.

The result is a great sounding album with many of Igor’s characteristic sounds, a sample of which can be heard with Dream 6 below.

Borrowed Dreams is available from many major online music retailers and from Igor’s website http://www.ivitkevich.net/#!gallery/vstc2=page-5

Dream 6 by IGOR VITKEVICH

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Mercury – Mike Leghorn

September 5th, 2011

In keeping with the Planets theme today, Mike Leghorn has released a version of Mercury which you can hear below courtesy of his Soundcould page.

A very nice light and airy piece with a great  atmosphere, well up to Mikes usual standards.

Mercury by Mike Leghorn

 

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Aquarium played on BBC Radio introducing

September 2nd, 2011

Head to bbc.co.uk/introducing, upload your music and you could have your tracks broadcast on BBC Radio

 

I can hardly believe it but Aquarium is to be played on BBC Radio Essex Introducing on 2 Sept 2011 7pm, a show for unsigned acts. Looking at the track listing, mine must be a bit of an inverse culture shock :-) on a show playing the lastest Dub, rap, techno and electronica.

I uploaded the track on the off chance that it might get heard by someone, then they said that it would be the played as the last track of the show, always a good slot to be to first or the last.

So it goes to show that we can get on to major radio stations :-)

 

EDIT : They actually opened the show with the track and said that is was amazing !, which made my day :-)

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Aquarium : Camille Saint Saens by Paul Shillito

August 25th, 2011

This is a piece of music that I have heard loads of times in film, TV, documentaries but until recently I still didn’t know who the composer was or the name of the piece, then by accident if found it on Youtube. Now finally I have been able to do my version of it and in what seems to be a record breaking time for me of about 10 hours. It was made using mainly an Arturia Origin digital hardware modular synth which seems to be my main weapon of choice at the moment and was aided and abetted by an Eventide Pitchfactor, Strymon El Capistan, EHX Cathedral and Line 6 M13.

In keeping with the watery, fishy theme, the video is of some of the more unusual sea creatures and mostly synchronised (sort of but ran out of unique shots and had to time stretch some to make them fit).

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Jeff Knapp joins Classitronic

August 24th, 2011

I’m pleased to welcome Jeff Knapp to Classitronic and add him to the list of current artists.

Jeff came to my attention when he posted some of his works on the Classitronic soundcloud group, which I’m glad he did. Jeff is based in Los Angeles, California, USA. A visual effects expert by day and avid electronic music in his spare time and he has produced some very good Bach interpretations using an all software  Mac based home studio.

You can read and hear more about him on his artist page  and here are some of his works below.

Cannon in D Minor by JKVisFX

Beethoven’s 9th, Second Movement by JKVisFX

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Mike Leghorn joins Classitronic

July 21st, 2011

 

Its been a while since I updated the website and during this time I came across Mike Leghorn on soundcloud.com.

Mike is a bit different to the normal guys here in that many of his works are original compositions as well as reinterpretation of existing material, all of which are both exciting and well produced.

He has produced a set of Bach arrangements call Bach in Technicolor which we have here.

Bach in Technicolor by Mike Leghorn

Mike uses software synths and as we can see from the above pic, you couldn’t really sit down with your feet up with a modular on your lap  :-)

Have a listen to some of his  orginal works here, then drop by his website mike-leghorn.com or his Soundcloud page.
The Rite of Splunge by Mike Leghorn
The Prophesies of Nostril Damus by Mike Leghorn

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Stravinsky Petrushka – Paul Shillito

October 17th, 2010

Well, it feel like its being a an eternity since I put out anything but after a complete studio refit, change of working technique and a lot of work I finally have done Stravinsky’s Petrushka. A dry run for not only sussing out the new studio kit but also for my re-run with “The Rite of Spring” which I started, stopped, started, shelved and finally gave up on software instruments in favour of hardware.

This is a selected highlights from the full 22 minute piece, I intend to release it on an album in 2011 along with the “Rite” once it is done so there may well be changes that I do after I have had time to re-assess it.

It was done with all hardware including DOT.com/DoepferAnalogue modular, Arturia Origin, Creamware Prodyssey and Pro-12, Roland V-Synth GT, Digitech Timebender, EHX Cathedral and Small Stone Phaser, Line 6 M13 Stompbox modeller, Eventide Modfactor and PitchFactor with Cubase 5 running on i7 PC and Windows 7 64bit.

The whole piece was adapted from the 3 part piano version with the Shrovetide Fair and Charlatans Booths added at the beginning again adapted from a piano version. The whole piece took about 4 months of evenings and weekend work to put together.

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Igor Vitkevich joins Classitronic

February 25th, 2010

A warm welcome to Igor Vitkevich from Latvia and now living in London who discovered Classitronic a few days ago and I’m very glad he did.

He has done some really great work which I have posted a couple of examples of here.

This is what says about himself on his website http://www.ivitkevich.net/

“I Was born on October, 16th 1962 in Balvi (Latvia).
In music took a great interest since the childhood. As the musician, has made the first steps at children’s musical school of the town of Balvi.
After five years of studying of physics and mathematics at Daugavpils State University has made sharp “turn” in a music and theatre direction.
As the actor worked at theatre (the Daugavpils State Theatre, theater group CHEMODAN), acted in film.
Wrote music to drama performances, acted with different groups (DZINTARS, OVERNIGHT SENSATION, RUSSKIJ KVAS). After acquaintance to computer technologies becomes their active supporter and starts the “classical” project.
Now lives in London, where actively co-operates with electronic groups and works over solo projects.”

I’m really looking forward to hearing more from Igor, i really like  CARMINA BURANA part II which you’ll find on his soundcloud area, its great fun track and sounds brilliant, a great Classitronic track I ever i heard one.

A Perfect Vacuum by IGOR VITKEVICH

THE BIG UNIVERSAL CLOCK by IGOR VITKEVICH
THE GREAT GATE by IGOR VITKEVICH

His soundcloud is http://soundcloud.com/igorvitkevich

and myspace is www.myspace.com/ivitkevich

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Vision Fugitives Opus 22 Section 7 – Prokofiev – David Ryle

December 15th, 2009

A week or so ago David posted his interpretation of Prokofiev’s vision fugitives opus 22 section 7 on the Classitronic soundcloud group, its only been today that I have finally had the chance to really listen to it, which i have done several times and it really grown on me.

This is what David says of the piece “Synthesizers used were an Arrick Modular, Oberheim Matrix6, Waldorf MicrowaveXT, Prophet8, Nord Lead2X & Yamaha TX816.
This track is a slowed down version of the seventh segment of the piano opus. The timbre are arbitrary and of course nothing like a piano. Purely straight out of my head.”

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Vision Fugitives Opus 22 Section 7 – Sergei Prokofiev by David Ryle

As David says it’s nothing like a piano and all the better for it, and excellent orchestration of the sounds gives it s whole new character (note to self, I wouldn’t make a good music critic as I find it difficult to describe in words how a piece like this sounds, I prefer to listen to the music and go on the journey it takes me in my mind rather than write about it).

Very well done and looking forward to hearing more in the future.

David also has a Youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/user/davidryle where you can see him in action in his studio.

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Pavane by Fauré for Modular Synthesizer

December 6th, 2009

Yes, well we can see who’s been up burning the midnight oil again in front of a load of knobs and wires !.

Another amazing piece of programing from Alastair Symon and his modular synth, this time its Pavane by Gabriel Fauré and don’t forget folks there ain’t no computers driving this, just good old fashioned analogue sequencers, which is no mean feat.

Alastair summarises up the the set up like this  “It uses three Analogue Solutions Oberkorn 3 and a Synthesizers.com Q960. There are also several sequential switches in use as well as the Moon Modular M563 Trigger Sequencer driving the Analogue Solutions drum modules.”

But other than the shear technical brilliance, it sounds really beautiful and haunting and sounds suit the mood of the music very well, well done Alastair !.


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