Berlin

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Here’s my newest work:

http://www.andreaskrebs.de/assets/media/berlin.mp3

This is an 8 minute piece which is an attempt to bring some elements and ideas of 70ies Berlin school music into 21st century. There’s heavy use of analog sequencer lines, many old fashioned sounds, some improvisation. However, the result clearly is no Berlin school music…

The piecs has a quite simple musical structure: A-B-B‘-A‘ (half tempo), with the „B“ parts being quite rhythmical and fun, whereas the surrounding „A“ parts are more elegic and meditative. At the beginning, we have a bass sequencer line (ARP2600 V), with some Absynth atmospheres around. The melody is played with some sweet Mellotron strings, accompanied by a slightly distorted hihat (EZ drummer Nashville).

The B parts use the same bass sequence, enhanced by an additional FM8 bass sequence, some Hammond (B4) chords and heavy drums (EZ Nashville, dfh and Twisted Kit), at the second B part, we have rhythmical brass chrords (Kontakt/vsl library). The solo synth is Massive, put through a nice guitar amp.

Finally, the last A part is played with half tempo, solo „instrument“ is some choir voicing (from Kontakt again), accompanied by high-pitched sequences (Jupiter8V) and CS80V atmospheric drones.

Instruments:
Arturia ARP2600 V, NI Absynth, GForce MTron, Toontrack EZdrummer, NI FM 8, NI Massive, NI Kontakt, Arturia CS80 V, Arturia Jupiter 8, Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase.

Have fun listening!
Andreas

Where else am I?

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Other places on planet web 2.0 where you may find traces of my music:

Ah: happy christmas and  a good new year 2010 to everyone who incidentally reads this line!

Andreas

Sinfonietta

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My Sinfonietta was composed in 2003 (with several smaller changes until 2007). At this time I used the great Garritan Personal Orchestra – which is a cute little orchestral package with a great price and low system requirements. Well, I needed low system requirements and low prices, anyway. In 2003, Garritan made a composer’s challenge: up to 7 minutes, only Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO), the winner will be played live with a real orchestra. The winner was someone really talented, but at leastI’ve got some „honorable mentioning“ on Garritan’s website – thanks for this, was much fun and pleasure to contribute this little work!

After this, I’ve changed minor things in instrumentation and changed to my new (and much bigger) orchestra library (which is the NI Kontakt version of East West Symphonic Orchestra Gold, in case you want to know), the music itself remained the same. The piece has quite a light mood, is built upon a ternary rhythm (maybe something like a fast waltz…?) and it’s building blocks are just a few musical elements: these elements are repeated and transformed throughout the piece, and I still have happy feelings when I hear it, especially at the opening bars when the woodwinds „chatter“.

So here’s the link to Sinfonietta:

 http://www.andreaskrebs.de/assets/media/sinfonietta.mp3

Have fun and enjoy,

Andreas