I agree with ACL

One of the most beautiful pieces of music EVER written. Wonderful arrangement. w;-)

sweet

I own the piano score but I found an accurate score as a midi file on the net and started from there. (That saved a 2 or 3 hours at my pace.) Then I loaded the file into Sonar 8.5 and orchestrated it by assigning instruments to the VSTi called Kontakt 4 and its Vienna Symphony samples. Adjusting velocities / color / and a few notes took 3-4 hours. The most difficult part was creating the final mix which I'm still not 100% happy with.

Sounds lovely, very nicely done!

well done friend,,, it's wonderful piece, and your orchestration it very interesting,,, some questions (and i'll make these as public, in case anyone else is interested in the tech aspects) did you have a digital piano score,, or working from printed manuscript first or perhaps you already know this memorized and broke it out from that? about how long did this process take??? It's a cool thought/work,,, and though i have not done this myself ,, yet,, it looks like a lot of fun.... once again well done,, i am constantly amazed at your creative/musical talents... Richard

The low brass captures the mood of the piece perfectly. Nice interplay between the voices. Well done!

Nice Job Fella! I'll have to check out that link that you sent me. Thanks.

Wonderful job! It all sounds very realistic to me!

This is a frosty little piece, I like the blend and instrument choices

very nice

Cool beans! Love the guitar work here...

Lovely, gentle sounds.

Great synth sounds!

well done I like it.

very cool,,,, and very nice team work

Ha! More like panting than voice. :p

Woah, deep sounds!

Very cool!!! Was the sax, pad, sequences done on the GR-20?

AWESOME COLLAB! Hearing that real sax in there makes me wanna pick my alto back up. Is that pic of 9/11?

Hi Richard, the tuning I used for the Magic of Belief has much more than major or minor and I used almost all of the. The opening plays with the chords CDG, CEbG CEb^G (a "neutral" third about half way between minor and major) and CEG (except the E is a purer 3rd than 12 equal) The main motive bottoms out at what my ears are telling me is a neutral interval against a D neutral chord (but I'm not 100% sure, I didn't work it out - could be D minor)

a very intense drone - I like the solo guitar work a lot.

and I love this song!

thanks for the comment.

Awesome! I love your fretless work!

love the sound of your synth here - reminds me lot of the old CS-10 I once had a very long time ago. http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/cs10.php

Thank you for the comments. I don't often comment here anymore but I do want to answer your Rhodes question. I believe Ben uses a Yamaha Motif. The clarinets are real. I'd love to hear your new age version of Stairway - that would be grand!

has ORH rubbed off on you?

Thank you for the comments Kavin - I know I'd be happy listening to B read a phone book too! And this piece is simply magical!

I'm at 28+ minutes.... this is awesome!

Beautiful. Gosh I really love what you do with your rig.

don't step on the event horizon!

yeah this is a good song indeed.

15 edo

crazy stuff!

I should mention the echo was a real echoplex... I do miss it.

OOOOh Bethan - the equipment was so bad it picked up Citizen's Band radios that were over-driven beyond the legal limit. Nonetheless. I still had the crush :-)

If by fuzzy wuzzy you mean touching my heart - well I had a crush on Cindy.

it is a vintage 1975 cassette recording with bad equipment - please listen to the spirit, not the reality.

this is great - there is a lot of playing with expectation in this. that is awesome work Bruce!