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SLD Music · Post by **SLD Music** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:51 pm

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_SLDM ... elsior.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:

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.

ClaRago · Post by **ClaRago** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:49 pm

Excellent. Great video too.

SLD Music · Post by **SLD Music** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:09 pm

Thanks for listening / watching.

folderol · Post by **folderol** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 7:15 pm

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

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:03 pm

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

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:26 pm

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

SLD Music · Post by **SLD Music** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:08 pm

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.

Excelsior (Choral Accapella)