Imphenzia

Today marked a new milestone in Imphenzia Soundtrack as the first orchestral tack was released. Due to its character it was named " Emperor Victorious " as it portrays a glorious, somewhat epic (although that word is very much overly used) and powerful mood. The track received nice and encouraging feedback in the Indegamer development forums . Coming from making electronic music this new orchestral style had a fair share of challenges involved. The first step was to identify what instruments actually play in a track. Once I achieved this, I had to go through the building blocks of cinematic style music - and boy is it complex or what? Not only do you have to pay close attention to the architecture of instruments and melodies - but also how the individual notes are played dynamically in terms of velocity and emphasis. Next step for me is to upgrade my sample library to the huge sample collection " East West Samples Complete Composers Collection - Play Edition ", prob...

I am currently in discussions with game makers for the XBox and PC platforms and it sparked an old idea I've had for many years. I will create a sub section of Imphenzia called 'Imphenzia Soundtrack" where I release clips of various styles of music where game / video / movie makers can listen to clips and obtain licensed or exclusive tracks for their projects. I will categorize all tracks into style and emotions and hopefully be able to provide soundtracks to future projects. To give you an idea of music (it won't just be trance) I sequenced together these three clips tonight: Imphenzia Soundtrack - Dramatic - Tense - Orchestral.mp3 Imphenzia Soundtrack - Epic - Victorious - Orchestral.mp3 Imphenzia Soundtrack - Energetic - Victorious - Eletronic.mp3 The above clips are all based on the same beat and the future site will obviously have all different beats, styles, instruments and so forth. This finally gets me a good reason to get more into orchestral and mood music in...