Thought I'd share this one since a lot of people here are into trailermusic.

Waiting

Not really much to say except that I'm completely overloaded with work again. While working on 4 projects I'm currently getting ready for my Berklee application. Means I'm taking some lessons in classical piano and orchestral notation very soon. The project ENIOS is getting forward and a website will be finished soon. The producer got some great offers regarding publishers from Japan. Things seem to evolve the right way, right now it's just waiting and preparing.

Feedback

I've been a little overwhelmed with all the feedback I've gotten recently, not just from Newgrounds, but also other sites. The more I'm worried that I was unable to come back to a lot of people, especially the people that posted on my last newspost. There was a lot of stuff that really got me to think about now and the future. I just wanted to say thanks, even though I know that it isn't the same as a personal reply.

Maestro's leaving

When I came to Newgrounds Maestro Rage was probably the very first person I looked up to. No matter how rough the time was, he'd always laugh at it and pass on. After all the years on this site he finally managed to find a job in the musical business. This is probably the most dignified exit you can make here. Congratulations Selcuk!

That's pretty much everything for now! Be sure to visit my website from time to time if you're interested in my latest compositions.

Have a blast!

If I've learned something over the few years on NG then it's definitely that you've got to be careful with headlines, otherwise lots of people will hysterically break into your journal with loads of text that you don't even want to reply to. I've recently received a few messages of people asking me if I stopped submitting music since there's quite a lot of new work that I didn't post here. The answer could be a bit two sided since I'm not sure at the moment. Over the last month I was finally able to gather two commission works, one is the Samurai XBox360 game (Royalities, hopefully) and the other one a large scale project called ENIOS.

I rarely talk about it in the public but most of my friends now that I live in a poor district (slum?) where raids with knifes and other conflicts seem to happen everyday. I worked hard and had to devote myself completely to afford most of the software that I saved up for over months. However, getting commissions as well as getting into the commercial business of music composition has always been the only thing that kept me getting up every morning. I understand that some people say that they wouldn't go commercial since they do it for the enthusiasm, but if you have to worry about your live everyday then it will surely change your point of view since this could be your ticket to a place that a person in my situation would call "heaven". It's pretty hard to enter this market whatsoever, especially when you're completely self taught, young and only have access to composition and the whole market over the internet. Just to clarify a few things, I've never even heard a real orchestra playing live in front of me. There's never been anyone around me who even had a musical releation in any way. So how did I get to classical filmmusic when I grew up with just being influenced by mainstream popmusic which was played on the radio 24/7? Well, it's a nostalgic key and a little reminder of good times. I wont bother you with details though, no worries.

So what kind of break is this? In the past I took down my complete submissions with the intention to leave entirely about 2 times, so I really need be careful with that term. Let's just say I wont post music for a while. If it's just "for a while" or "forever" can't be said right now. I definitely got my reasons whatsoever. Posting music here has always been a little toxic for me since the distribution sometimes gets a little out of hand. There have been many attempts of stealing that I've seen this year, thanks to the people who reported these cases to me by the way, much appreciated!

Right now I'm planning on keeping people updated about further musics though via this journal. I think the people who are really interested in what I'm doing will follow and listen. However, I don't think I still need to prove myself on any way here. When it comes to composition I really want to get further and raise my personal bar wherever I can. I recently got a recommendation by a music student to fill out a scholarship for the Berklee Music College, this however requires me to send sheet notes of my work. Now don't get me wrong, I've got a basic understanding about score notation but I could never notate something as complex as Morning Adventure. Apart from that it also requires me to play an instrument, I think the piano would be my choice in this one. So I still have to work on my personal knowledge regarding score sheets and instruments, which is pretty hard to manage with practically 2 full time jobs at once and still no money to pay a teacher.

In the end I want to thank the people that always supported me, no matter if you're someone who followed my work since the first hour or if you just someone who downloaded something. To see my recent work you can either follow the progress of my website or my Facebook account. Here are some recent compositions that I'm probably not going to upload here...

Main Menu (Drama/Underscore)
A Whole World on Paper (Adventure)
Awakening the Warrior Within (Action)

Love in a Nutshell (Romantic Comedy)

Thanks for everything guys!

I just stumbled upon NG's new revenue sharing program and got to admit that it looks pretty interesting. Right now I'm just not sure if someone really wants to thank their users or just wants to gather some private information for other advertising purposes. However, being desperate for money since almost 2 years now I'll surely give it a shot. Even with just a few cents haha!

I also noticed that I've received a pretty large amount of mails and messages this week. Gotta appologize that I might come back to these later since I'm facing a REALLY tight deadline regarding a score at the moment.

Guess that's all for now, have a great weekend!

Around a week or so Eastwest took my latest composition "Morning Adventure" as a first official demo to their new Symphonic Orchestra Platinum PLAY library. You can download and listen to a high quality 24-Bit Wave of this piece on their website now.

http://www.soundsonline.com/EastWest-Q uantum-Leap-Symphonic-Orchestra-PLAY-E ditions-pr-EW-177.html
Go to Demos and there you are.

I'm also working for a japanese score for an XBox360 (Marketplace) game. I'll post some extracts of them on my website once I got enough material finished. This however is going to be my first score that's partially going to be mastered in Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 to give the player a great impression of music as well. I'll keep you updated about the progress!

I'm sorry that I'm not able to reply to all my messages lately. Please understand that there's an enormous time pressure on my shoulders with all the projects I'm involved in. Having a full-time job besides doesn't make this easy.

Right now I'm pretty loaded with projects. Besides Serpent's Grave and Dusk's Flight I'm doing the score for an XBox360 Marketplace game and 2 animated shorts for a good friend. You can look at her animation previews on Youtube if you're interested...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dgNsVf 8_u0&feature=channel_page&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCiCp_Y RvBM&feature=channel_page&fmt=18

At the moment I'm not sure how long I'll still be able to post music on NG, the probability that some of my works are getting commercialized sooner or later is definitely there but that isn't the main reason. I feel like the classical section isn't simply classical anymore, pure (more or less) classical music is rather burried somewhere at the -4.00 ranges. It seems like as long as you don't put a motherload of synthesizers into your tracks or make them sound like some ridiculously epic LotR ripoff they're barely going to have a chance. What about music from the heart? Personaly I really enjoy classical filmmusic, mainly the dramedy genre as it's found in Disney movies. I mean you don't need to get too cliché about the style, just listen to Bruce Broughton's "The Rescuers Down Under", or Alan Menken's score to "Aladdin" and you'll definitely find what I mean, creativity at its best. I could go through a list of John Williams scores as well now but I guess most people are familiar with his work.

Last year "Entering the Stronghold" received an incredible amount of feedback and became my most popular work. The reason is the simplicity behind it. It might have a decent melody part in the middle but the overall layout is still a rather un-classical one. It's made for the masses, like music in the radio. I will have to write music like this sooner or later anyways but however, I still find a much bigger interest in classical filmmusic that expresses strong emotions. Music like "A Magnificent Journey", "Heart of the Winter" and "Morning Adventure" are pretty much in the genre that always kept me writing new work. And with that I want to thank the people that always suported this genre.

I'll definitely put up the latest pieces on my website, I'm not sure if I'm able to put them on NG since some of them are going to be commercial work. Simply check the music section from time to time, pieces that aren't older than 2 weeks are marked with a slight glow effect.

That's all for now, thanks for reading!

Got a little irritated about that lately. I highly recommend soundtrack artists to check out this guy (link removed) on youtube. He basically posts videos of music and claims it belongs to the Halo Wars soundtrack. I've sent 2 messages to him but without any answer, so I decided to make people aware of this violation.

I don't know about the first track but the second one is definitely one of my pieces. I want to thank people for showing this to me and highly suggest every other artist to check out his videos, you might find one of your tracks there...

EDIT: First track is Rise of a new King by DukeLukeProd.

EDIT (2): He took the videos down, I removed the links.

Yep, it's finally here! www.dennyschneidemesser.com

At first I want to apologize for the horrific photo, gotta change that soon!

I've tested it in Firefox and the Internet Explorer so far and it works pretty well apart from a weird white line which shows up in IE. The site requires Flash 8, be sure to have the plug-in installed. Please tell me if you encounter any problems as well as typos or spelling errors. English isn't my first language after all.

The next thing I'm going to add is a download section which WONT be directly accessible from the main page though. The reason is simple, whenever people see that something is downloadable for free they often start thinking that the content isn't bound to any license, so I'll just make the download page accessible from sites like NG and wherever my friends can see it.

Next thing I'm going to do is an html version. I'm lucky that everything is supervised by my school as a large project so I'm able to get help whenever I need it.

EDIT: Just fixed an issue that prevented the site from working in safari.

Alright, it's been some time that I've been at this point of a conclusion. I'm used to shut my mouth, sit back and watch how things are evolving but this time I've probably seen more than I was supposed to be. Whoever followed my progress is aware of the couple of pieces I've written for Serpent's Grave, soon after Toniko released the trailer people were starting to make up topics to bash the (I appologize) shit out of the themes that were displayed in this preview in a way which was just far off civilized. But however, before I start to get excessive with my sentences I'll rather describe it short.

I've been doing the scores for 3 animated movies that were actually released.

2 of them were just released on DeviantArt Film, one of them with a Daily Deviation so I wouldn't say that these were less popular. Both movies received great praise as well as constructive critism.

1 of them was released on Newgrounds and received great praise with an equal amount of hatemail towards the author.

Well, it's obvious and predictable. I think everyone who's posting here knows what kind of place Newgrounds is. Maybe I'm just a little bit too old to mess around with this kind of system, it wasn't directly against me but seeing a good friend in a situation like this opened my eyes a little. Maybe it works pretty well as a personal little warning that will let me think twice before I'll actually submit new content here.

Anyways, just some small news at the end. I'm currently installing Symphonic Orchestra Platinum Plus (Play) that I've bought lately. I'll also lauch my website soon which is almost entirely going to be in flash.

Have a good weekend.

~Denny

Yep, it's finally here. Please watch it and support Toniko if you have some time.

Serpent's Grave Trailer (Newgrounds)

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