_ motion picture moods

A homage to Erno Rappee...

I did some film music recently, as part of my university degree. I thought I'd share the results with everyone online - I'm thinking, it's still William Echo music, right?

Anyway, the brief was to write music for film (the default film given was Love Is The Devil with Daniel Craig and Derek Jacobi - wiki entry here) - I was unimaginative and chose the default film for the course. I had 2 assignments, both to do 10 minutes of music. For the first one I used MIDI instruments and tweaked the EQs and added plugins to make them sound as realistic as possible. For the second assignment, I wanted to use some real instruments - but was pushed for time. So, I ended up recording and layering electric guitar and mixing it with a little MIDI, and recorded some MIDI piano for a cartoon I found online. If the owner of the cartoon is reading this, please don't sue me :D I tried to make this a bit like a silent film, but with Rachmaninov and Liszt influences/rip-offs.

All the intruments and sounds are performed by me, written in Logic 8 in about a week. Enjoy!

Assignment 1



Assignment 2

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_ live.

I've been rehearsing with some friends to put together some kind of live show, and things are going well. Booked in tomorrow for another practice.

Laptop + guitar + vocals + speakers = sweet sweet music.

That's the plan anyways. I'll let you know how that goes...




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_ violet hill

New Coldplay song, discovered it this morning. I think it's a great song, with a great video. Enjoy.

_ popular page

It seems this blog keeps getting more and more popular! Which is really nice to see - you lot should start leaving more comments though! hehe

I've been developing williamecho.com, it's now even better and has a music player so you can hear my music while you browse my pages :) If there's anything else you'd like to see, just drop me a little comment on the home page.

....scheduled to meet up with a friend soon and start working out something live. Then I can take this show on the road! William Echo. Coming to a town near you.



www.williamecho.com






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_ /rant over

ok so I got that out of my system. Thought I'd repost my post about the new website just to keep it on top of things. It's my blog and I'll make loads of posts if I want to ;-)




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_ a twisted logic

"thrown sideways into a backwards parallel universe"

Here's a little story for you.

A shoe-maker makes a shoe. It's a very pretty shoe indeed. However, when it goes on sale, it's actually a very uncomfortable shoe. Lots of women can't actually fit their feet into this pretty shoe, so, surely, he can't be a very good shoe-maker after all? Surely it means that the shoe is never bought, the reputation is destroyed and the cobbler goes out of business because, after all, what else is a shoe made for than to be worn?

But this is 2008 and it seems it's not the shoe-maker's fault after all, it's the feet. Of course. So the feet don't fit the pretty shoe; what options are there?

Foot surgery it seems. Yes, it's true. If the shoe don't fit, fix the foot. I feel almost as if I've been thrown sideways into a backwards parallel universe.

Oh, but fear not. It does all make sense. Honest. That shoe-maker I told you about? It's Jimmy Choo. Or Manolo Blahnik. Or countless other magic cobblers. See? It all becomes crystal clear now doesn't it.


For more information click this link





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_ new website

Tonight the new website goes live :-) Not all the links are linked, and it's not 100% finished, but it gives you a very good idea indeed.

...and don't worry, a decent URL is in order, I know.

Visit the work in progress here: http://www.freewebs.com/williamecho

Let me know if there's anything wrong!




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_ makeover

A&M gets another makeover =] Very blogworthy indeed.

In other news...been writing a new song, sounding good. I'll be looking to start playing the EP live soon too, so I'll be busy doing that.

Not to mention uni work. Great. Better get cracking.

Oh, and go read That Neon Feeling's first critical review! click click click




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_ That Neon Feeling gets reviewed

Music blog To Die By Your Side has written a review of my song That Neon Feeling. It seems my line-dancing Bjork on acid has gone down rather well! You can read the review here =]



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