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?

I saw autoharp and I had to listen. I really like this song. Very nice vibe to it.

enjoyed - like Kate Bush meets Tori Amos at Apex Twin's home studio.

well, Iceland is about half-way - I say we have an Alontone party in Reykjavík - perhaps we can get Bjork to join in!!

this is lovely - way way too short!!

excellent - never heard the original but I love what you've done here.

awesome!!

once again - simply beautiful!

beautiful!

Love the vocal split - excellent rock ballad

hi Kavin, Wondering Aloud is on my list!

Hi Kirk, typically it is easiest to start talking about notes as numbers in the tuning. So say for instance a a fifth would be from note 1 (or 0) to note 12 (11). This page may help http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/19edo

Norm, just how many chickens have you raised? ;-)

this is an awesome tune!

Wow NPR - how cool!! And the music is great!!

Hi Kavin, if your new tuning changed the length between the 5th and 6ths fret for instance then, no you could not accomplish this by changing the tuning of the open strings. On the other hand you can make a small trip into microtonality by retuning the open strings a quarter flat or sharp relative to each other.

very good - very very good!

good blues - could be longer with MTC shredding some blues licks

nice work!

excellent song!

Quite excellent and I'm only 2 minutes in. This is an amazing composition of ever changing aural landscapes. Wonderful!! and I'm 14 minutes in. At 15 minutes in I downloaded this piece. By 21 minutes you have taken me to a new never seen before aural vista overlooking the eternal. What an incredible transformation to an organ-ish sound at 25 minutes. Wow... the symphonic length was filled with symphonic sound. I love your piece! The closing flute like tones from your ebow is just perfect.