Hello all,

Back in April of 2012, I entered the Music Cafe monthly contest. The theme was 30 seconds (meaning the song couldn't be more than 30 seconds long). I ended up getting third place with this humble entry:

http://www.sldmusic.com/MUSIC/1204_SLDMusic_Excelsior.mp3

After the contest, I wanted to expand my song, and I wrote some choral parts for it. Then I set it aside thinking I would record it later. Well, later is now. So the updated, and ... radically different song is now complete. I thought some of you might be interested in hearing it.

I made a video for it, so you can see and hear the song here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlVWEp1DTU

For the youtube challenged (or disinterested) you can also hear it on my soundcloud page, here:

http://soundcloud.com/sld-music/excelsior

I know it's not the normal KVRAudio faire, but thanks anyway for listening.

Excellent. Great video too.

Thanks for listening / watching.

Oh come on now... This is just showing off

Excellent piece of music. The vocal harmonies are really well arranged and the piece is well recorded and sung. Oh yeah. Great video too.

Did I detect some sort of "boominess" around 150-160Hz, possibly due to an effect of reverb?

Good work

Stunning harmonies! 20 voices according to the blog. Wow.

Sorry for the late reply, I was out of town this weekend.

Thank you all for the nice thoughts and feedback. Seismic1, I'll check into the boominess you mentioned. The perils of not having a properly treated studio I'm afraid.

And yes, it was 20 voices of me in the choral sections. Four bass 2's, Four bass 1's, four tenor 2's, and eight tenor 1's.

I actually documented the entire arranging, recording and finishing of the song, and plan to release a sort of "making of" series of videos in the coming weeks on youtube for anyone interested. I need to do a lot of editing though, as I don't want to bore everyone with the several hours of video and screencast footage I have.

Thanks again everyone.