Showtune orchestral arrangement progress:
✅ Verse 1 in strings and woodwind
✅ Chorus 1 in strings and woodwind
🔲 Verse 2 with too much slide brass
🔲 Chorus 2 with descant trumpet
🔲 Instrumental interlude a major third down
🔲 Absurd sax solo
🔲 Sondheim-esque bridge at 190 bpm
🔲 Chorus 3 with timpani and tubular bells and maybe a cannon
🔲 Heartfelt coda with stops and starts
🔲 Final tonic all-in note

#Songwriting

Showtune orchestral arrangement progress:
✅ Verse 1 in strings and woodwind
✅ Chorus 1 in strings and woodwind
🔲 Verse 2 with too much slide brass
🔲 Chorus 2 with descant trumpet
🔲 Instrumental interlude a major third down
🔲 Absurd sax solo
🔲 Sondheim-esque bridge at 190 bpm
🔲 Chorus 3 with timpani and tubular bells and maybe a cannon
🔲 Heartfelt coda with stops and starts
🔲 Final tonic all-in note

#Songwriting

Finished recording a song for the first time in a while - this one's a Fallout 2 fan-song, a post apocalyptic folk ballad entitled A Traveller's Song From Klamath. I hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQmD6p8rTM

#Songwriting #Folk #Fallout #MastoMusic

Indie songwriting/producing dilemma

Is it better, do you think, to release the version you can produce with the resources you have today, or is it better to wait until you can make the version you hear in your head?

#songwriting #indieMusuc

Indie songwriting/producing dilemma

Is it better, do you think, to release the version you can produce with the resources you have today, or is it better to wait until you can make the version you hear in your head?

#songwriting #indieMusuc

It is apparently Fediverse #MusiciansDay for letting people know about your musical stuff.

I do music sometimes! I'm not very good at it, but there are a 81 recordings of folksy and bardic songs performed and in most cases written by me on one of the Exilian YT channels and if you'd enjoy that sort of thing please do go and give it a listen and a like or let me know what you think. Or throw virtual tomatoes at me if it was that bad.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9yQHHieLcCNBplhv5XO_ffvAp-KelCZw

#Music #Songwriting #MastoMusic

My forthcoming record celebrates queerness, confronts US Christian nationalism and evangelical bigotry, and marks an attempt at a spirituality for resistance. It's nearly done, and I'm so glad to get to share it with you soon. Today I woke up with a sense of relief like I haven't felt in a long time. It's so good to be putting out a new album. 😊

#transJoy #exvangelical#transMusician #folk #songwriting#MusicProduction

My forthcoming record celebrates queerness, confronts US Christian nationalism and evangelical bigotry, and marks an attempt at a spirituality for resistance. It's nearly done, and I'm so glad to get to share it with you soon. Today I woke up with a sense of relief like I haven't felt in a long time. It's so good to be putting out a new album. 😊

#transJoy #exvangelical#transMusician #folk #songwriting#MusicProduction

If you're making music that can even obliquely be considered "protest music," I'd love to help you get it out there by mixing and mastering for cheap (or even free, depending on your financial circumstances).

Art made by conscientious people is very good for the world.

I've already mixed and mastered one protest song from a mutual here on fedi. 😊 Allow me to help, if you need. Send me a DM or find my email from my website.

#MusicProduction#MutualAid #songwriting #music

it is one of my greatest dreams to host the “Rassegna della Canzone d’Autore” one of the most renowned international prizes for songwriting, held at Ariston, the same theatre where the Festival di Sanremo (the Italian Eurovision) takes place. Antonio Silva, the current presenter who has been the only presenter Club Tenco has ever had since the first Rassegna in 1974, knows about my ambition, and he considers me his nemesis, but deep down we love each other.

Oh, this is not the story, actually It was just the premise. Here’s the story:

The first time he allowed me on stage with him, it was in a minor event of Club Tenco in la Pigna (where @scambi takes place), in 2018. I still remember vividly going on that stage under huge pressure, and introducing Enrico Nigiotti. While that was happening, the historical photographer of Club Tenco, my friend Mauro Vigorosi, shot the first picture you see in this post. It became my profile picture almost everywhere.

Last weekend, almost seven years after that picture, Mauro shot another one, the second one you see here.

Obviously, it totally has to become my new profile picture, now.

End of stori*es*.

#Sanremo#Festival#Sanremo2025#FestivalDiSanremo#Tenco#ClubTenco#Rassegna#Ariston #teatro #theater #music #musica #cantautorato #songwriting

If you're making music that can even obliquely be considered "protest music," I'd love to help you get it out there by mixing and mastering for cheap (or even free, depending on your financial circumstances).

Art made by conscientious people is very good for the world.

I've already mixed and mastered one protest song from a mutual here on fedi. 😊 Allow me to help, if you need. Send me a DM or find my email from my website.

#MusicProduction#MutualAid #songwriting #music

does anyone have any good tips/resources for composing a violin part from existing chords and melody?

#music #composition #violin #songwriting