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Philippe Quesnel

Computer programmer by day, "newbie 'composer' in my free time".

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9 notes vocal chord, voicing #1
done with my voice, 2 tracks per 'voice' .. using Alter Boy plugin to reach the alto / soprano notes ;-)

3min "contemporary" piano piece, with some "cassette symphony flute".
Based on a starting point of using both the major and minor third in the same chord

A short piano piece based on " The Stravinsky chord" (from Rites of Spring).

short piano piece. Closer to jazz this time I guess.
ended up with a quote from a well known Wayne Shorter piece .. which kinda became thematic material .. so 'homage' to Wayne shorter I guess (hence the subtitle 'Thx Wayne')

Short piece for "digital orchestra".
Composed using dodecaphonic / 12 tones serialism techniques.
Nice way to practice orchestration ;-)

Short piano piece.
"Musique d’ameublement" ? (i.e. Satie)

Orchestration exercise: orchestrate my strings piece "JustSeeMe-Just Cminor" for full orchestra.

7/4 tune, electric piano sounds of different types + drums.
style "funky weird new-age?" (a bit of King Crimson ressemblance?)

Short minor piano piece .. Jazz Satie?

A piano trio exercise (piano, oboe, bassoon).
Three movements,
Builds on some thematic material from last piano piece.

short piano piece, based mostly on whole scales

3min piece for 'digital orchestra'.
It all started from slowly piling up 1,2,3,5

orchestral piece, trying out 2 new plugins (solo strings and 'choir')
For my mom, who just turned 80 ;-) xxoo

short piano piece. was planned to be for orchestra but did NOT work at all, so back to piano ;-)

A=440 vs A=432
equal tempered scale vs "just intonation" 'scale'

the beginning of something!
electric bass + double bass + piano .. "Jazz" line

slow melancholic (again!) piano piece ;-)

short meditative 'new-age' (?) piano piece .. in Bbmin

short piano piece, composed by harmonizing an F Major7 #5 arpeggio.

yet another short piano piece. wth some quote of the famous Rite of Springs Eb7 / FbMaj ;-)

a short piano piece written using the Romanian Major scale.
("Dominant Lydian b2" !!)
(also a short bridge using a Lydian #2)

short piano piece, space Halloween

slow, meditative piano piece, around F minor

(very) short piece for digital choir + digital string orchestra

3min piece for strings orchestra, based on a simple 3 notes pattern

Short slow piano piece.
A bit like wandering in the woods, for a while it feels like you're home, but the more you wander, home gets a bit .. "vague" ;-)

My 1st attempt at a string quartet (3 parts/'movements')
Based on Shostakovitch's DSCH motif (from his name)
Using Spitfire Solo Strings (looootsa work to get solo strings to sound decent as a quartet!)

short piano piece, written based on the interval of a major 7th

short piece for string orchestra (plus some piano at the end ;-)

9 notes vocal chord, voicing #2
done with my voice, 2 tracks per 'voice' .. using Alter Boy plugin to reach the alto / soprano notes ;-)

short piece for string and piano

short piano piece.
lots of reverb, "spacey contemporary"

small example of how the same chords sound on piano vs in a string orchestra.
F# over F
Ab over C

short meditative piano piece.
playing with the ide of mixing major and minor

a version for strings orchestra of my piano piece of the same name

solo piano piece

courte version piano de "Oh Sainte Nuit" .. re-harmonisée pour ce Noël qui pourra être plutôt incertain pour certains cette année !!

something to tickle my "slushy brains". Au clair de la lune, in a different mode and re-harmonized

very short piano piece based on the specific sound of some chords in the Wendy Super Just temperament ("just intonation" / harmonic series)

(very) short piece with 'digital voices' and piano doubling

piano piece, based on two ideas, one arpeggio and one rhythmic pattern ("padaaa, padaaa" ;-) )

short piece playing around with harpsichord sound, tuned to 392Hz in WerckmeisterIII temperament.
Makes me think of a weird bird walking / jumping etc ;-)
Image credit: LightAndShadowSmith

short slow, "moody" piano piece (them "after concert blues" dude ! :-)

2min piano piece, based mainly on a motif using pentatonic scales

very short piano piece, a modified Au Clair de la Lune

quick example of the 7-edo scale: octave divided in 7 equal; steps ;-)

a (very) short piece for digital strings orchestra.
yes, war again, speechless ! :(

A little Jazz Ballad in C# minor, just the theme once, no solo.