ShawnBeard
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silverchaos
Dec 04, 2006
Glad to see you're still alive...Happy Holidays. --Mike from Bennigans.
trieu
Nov 25, 2006
Ha ha, I found you. Hey, it's good to see you doing anything at midi-contest. Let people have more fun and be more interesting....
Coolest regards, :-)
Trieu
mote
Feb 26, 2006
are you still alive? we miss you at pixel arts
shawnbeard
Aug 16, 2005
Steve Smith, thanks SO MUCH for your appreciation! It was inspired by my reconnecting (albeit through email) with a long-lost love. And your remarks about orchestration are very astute - thanks again!
steve smith
Aug 14, 2005
Shawn,
Just enjoyed "Absence" - a beautiful piece indeed - lovely use of reeds and strings (and pizz. bass).
Keep up the good work.
Steve
bernyan
Feb 05, 2005
Hi Shawn,
Sorry for goin AWOL for some time. I have been very busy job hunting.
Just heard your new set of variations. Of course you are right about it being darker and tenser. But it also seems to me like a fairy tale gone wrong: like Alice walking into a cave full of bats. I like it very much (maybe it appeals to the macabre side in me!). Keep up the good work. Best,
Bernard
shawnbeard
Jan 07, 2005
diyonisos: Thanks so much for listening! As far as "sounding like a whole orchestra full of world-class musicians", you can thank the miracle of modern technology for that. But it was awfully nice of you to say, and if there's anything I can get you in the way of soundfonts, compositional aids, etc., feel free to drop a line. Again, many thanks!
dyonisos
Jan 07, 2005
I'm impressed, really great stuff here. I'm scratchin' my head trying to figure out how one guy can sound so much like a whole orchestra full of world-class musicians. Incredible!
steve smith
Jan 04, 2005
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your tracks.
Exceptional talent, superb structure, and compellingly creative.
Great production values.
Inspiring stuff!
shawnbeard
Nov 23, 2004
Thanks, J. Todd, for listening! Stay tuned for more works in the next few weeks!
Surgeon General
Nov 18, 2004
Your music is not the offspring of an undisciplined intellect. Your collection is the scene of genius sifting, writing and splashing through masterpieces that land all over the place. Some floating back and forth to the ground marked with "B" for beautiful and other's landing on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven et al., because they are of equal quality.
THE BIGGA NIGGA
Oct 07, 2004
You really have some beatiful music.
whendovescry
Sep 21, 2004
It's difficult to choose favourites, but tonite i encourage listeners to hear: Orchestral Variation #3, String Variation-Finale, and Entrance of the Princess Aria.
Nice work, Shawn. Because i am not a composer, i have to ask... how in the world do you think up all this music? I enjoy your abilities in giving us a simple, lovely theme as sweet and comforting as an old nursery rhyme.. which you then turn and shape to take us on a ride through many thrills and spills of emotion or adventure.
Thanks again for the beautiful music,
whendovescry
johndavidthomas
Sep 20, 2004
Thanks a lot, Shawn, for lashing out at me on my message board...I really appreciate all of your sh**...for your information, I've been tested as a MUSIC GENIUS by the Ball State University School of Music Department of Music Theory and Composotion, and I've been a member of Mensa for 20 years with a math and music IQ of 143...so I AM a musical genius, whether you are incapable of recognizing it or not...my mother was a classical pianist from Indiana University School of Music, where she studied with Hoffzimmer of Berlin and London, who was a pupil of world famous classical composer, BUSONI...also, a personal friend of Leonard Bernstein and Gion Carlo Menotti and Plcido Domingo who lives in San Francisco told me I am a musical genius, too...so it is not just some "inflated opinion of mine", but it the consensus of several musical geniuses...the women in San Francisco who told me I am a musical genius also told me I am one of the premiere musicians of my generation, and she has an IQ of
shawnbeard
Sep 19, 2004
Thanks, Mark! I'm really glad people are listening to it - and I have so much more to add (both already written, and still rattling around in my small brain), so keep checking back at least once a week since I'll be updating that often, retiring songs and replacing them with newly written and recorded ones. And tell all of your friends and family who might enjoy these pieces!
Warmest regards,
Shawn
marksgreer
Sep 19, 2004
I am much enjoying your musical talent.
Mark
shawnbeard
Sep 18, 2004
whendovescry,
Thank you so very much for your encouragement and kind, generous words!
DEFINITELY let me know if you should ever become an absurdly rich "patron of the arts", LOL.
With affection,
Shawn
whendovescry
Sep 18, 2004
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Your orchestration is exceptional. Strings - you are a Master. For me, the piano on BOB is wildly exciting! And like Herr Wittenburg, if i had an orchestra to lend at this moment...
Cheers -
whendovescry
whendovescry
Sep 18, 2004
Maestro Beard,
What a selection of your music that is in a word, brilliant! Just my opinion, but i consider "Beethoven or Bust" might be more aptly titled "Better Than Beethoven" *s*
'Greatly looking forward to hearing and exploring more of your offerings. Thank you muchly for the downloads!
Take Care & Be Well,
whendovescry
Look who's here... everybody.... ;)