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Simon

"A great melody!"

Sweden

last active:: about 19 hours ago
last update:: 3 days ago
member for:: 6 months

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Home page:: www.myspace.com/simonhus...
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my biography

This is the short story about My music...

My younger brother is an author of adventures for RPG's (Role-playing Games) and one day I simply thought I'd try to write some "inspirational music" for his game adventures. I don't know anything about these games, so my brother gave me some information about that. And I know even less about writing and performing music, so I bought an old keyboard and started to play... ...and part of the result can you listen to here. You can also hear a couple of other compositions I’ve made, not connected to a specific story.

I've always listened a lot to music but I have no musical training or musical experience as a performer. So I'm trying to learn it all. How to perform, write, record, edit music...

In time, I will improve my studio and will hopefully be able to present a better recording, a better sound and a better performance of my music. I will keep on writing these tunes and update my sound clips now and then, because I have so much music spinning in my head. I'm happy about finding this "musical hobby" at the age of 35, but the top equipment is expensive and I’ve got three lovely young children at home so my time is limited.

More clips can be heard at www.myspace.com/simonhusberg and www.myspace.com/questoftheheroes.

I hope you can find heart and melody in my music.

Thanks for listening.
/Simon

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Title: Trains!: Description: As a kid I was fascinated by trains (along with Star Wars and dinosaurs, of course). Now, thirty or so years later, I finally have the possibility to make music. Why not make a piece for trains? So this is my homeage to all the trains in the world! Most parts are improvised but I’m fond of the piece, especially the “happy moment” beginning at about 2:47 and when the main hammering motif returns at about 4:06. I had such fun doing this, the music coming straight from my heart, maybe I’ll expand my “train music” into a longer and more worked-through piece some day. Like trains could go on forever, I could do variations on this "train music" forever. The piece is finished with a little fun coda.
Title: Three Pieces for Solo Piano: "Untitled Melody"/Remembrance/Twilight: Description: Just me playing piano! I was sitting by my keyboard, improvising and found this lovely little melody. I had to record it and upload it. No arrangement made, no effects or any other manipulation of the sound or instruments - just me playing piano. Please tell me what you think of the melody! And NO – one song have to go if I upload this track! Five songs is the limit. Ah well, easy solution… The song “Remembrance”, the one most heard and most liked of my songs has to go. Really? Oh no, at about 1:17 when my new little piano piece comes to an end, “Remembrance” takes over in full glory with an all new piano performance at the end. “Remembrance” is a tune I probably have been humming in my head for at least 15 years. And when I bought my keyboard, the music just played as if I always knew how to play it. But HEY! I doesn’t stop there. After “Remembrance”, at about 4:28, follows a brand new cue for solo piano, called "Twilight" (I had to call it something and stop with these "untitled"...). It’s 100% improvised, and I will never be able to write down the notes… I'm proud of the piece and its more “classical” sounding than anything I’ve done before. So, its actually three very diffrent pieces but I think they get along very well in this presentation.
Title: March of the Heavy Trains/The Jolly Express: Description: Two new tunes for my Trains!-project. The first part is heavy... Lots of Timpani and percussion, and absolutely no high notes. For the second part I tried to expand a short part from the Trains!-suite. In fact the last part of this is lifted right from "Trains!". Finally I put in a "hidden" piece not connected (or, might it be?) to Trains! Why? I don't know, I have to stop making these suites.
Title: The Island of Mereld: Description: In the sunny weather the spring brings to Sweden I found inspiration to compose music for the Island of Mereld. Described by my brother in his Role-Playing game adventure "Ereb Altor 386 e0", it’s a beautiful and peaceful Island, so the music is haunting and lush. Starting with atmosphere the music then slowly builds to a powerful but peaceful rendition of the Mereld theme. I think my performance and recording skills have slightly improved, and the melody line and atmosphere is nice, but I’m uncertain about the recorder stating the Mereld theme in the intro, maybe I'll change that part. I choose the recorder in favor of the flute to create a more unique sound for Mereld. Please let me know what you think! And please checkout my next track as well were you can find the counterpiece "Mereld Burning", music for the destruction and terror that awaits this peaceful Island.
Title: Mereld Burning/In Chains/A Story of Heroes: Description: As the story in "Ereb Altor 386 e0" continues, it turns out that the Island of Mereld is destined to be destroyed, to be burned down by evil forces. At first I thought, damn, now I have trouble to expand my material for this place. But it turned out to be a blessing. Now I had the opportunity to take this completely innocent music and twist it into sorrow, terror and tragedy. Me trying to capture all this, you can hear in the track “Mereld Burning”. The theme now changes direction into sorrow and dispare and some action/terror/suspense material is added. Well, the new updates is actually four new songs, not two. The track “Mereld Burning” is followed by material for the enslaved people of Eternia, heavy and sad music, and finally a very different, reflective and narrative, arrangement of the main theme (Ride of the Heroes). These three pieces is not connected in the story but still made a pretty nice "suite". Feel free to comment!

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Mats Paulsen | 2 days ago: Hi Simon! It sounds like you had much fun creating the "Trains!" track. The piano solo track is very nice. I love piano.
You're very expressive in you music and I like that. I get the feeling you have very exciting times when you create you music. Good work!

Best wishes,
Mats
Mats Paulsen | 2 days ago: Hi Simon! Tack för att du hörde av dig!
Thanks for the comments. I'm quite fine today. I'm still on partly sick-leave, but I'm getting better. I'm glad to hear you like my music, thanks my friend. How are you today?

Have a great day and take care.

Best wishes,
Mats
joa de arievilo | 6 days ago: I am hearing your music,very good, and the clearest of everything it is that from behind of whole that work a great culture of art notion exists, that will be the most difficult of acquiring in the fund!
a hug friend.
joa
workinprogress | 7 days ago: Hi Simon,

thanks a lot for your friendship.

Great music here, we can hear your northern soul is influenced by Russian themes and orchestrations, with a little bit of Sibelius too. It's great, really.
Don't worry too much about the equipment... the heart and the melody are what matters, and you definitely got them.

We're glad you liked the xmas song... if you have a few minutes, you could have a listen to some other tracks we made on our myspace page http://www.myspace.com/winprog and let us know what you think of them...

Cheers

W.I.P.
arti31023 | 8 days ago: Dude,

Don't have too much time, here (as I like to be clear and sure about my comments; your musical efforts deserve that, at the very least).

TRAINS did not, apart from a couple of obvious sections, overall, remind me of trains. However, I feel this is a really focused pice of music and your most light & fun atmosphere, so far. Though, there were a couple of roman armies marching through the picture, there were also at various points, a feeling of classic american western movie music in there. And I really liked that

Simon, for me, your most profound and beautiful work is the solo piano. This is your medium, dude! I'm telling you. Reminded me very much of of the piano music of Cat Stevens (without vocals, of course). Beautiful & melancholy. Rolling and evolving. Well done my man. Really, I'm very excited for you.

I'll return soon, and check it out at length. More in this genre, please!

CodeMonkeyArtie.

Ps. if you're too young to know who cat stevens is: an old geezer who wasn't old in the seventies and wrote beautiful tunes.
Raven | 17 days ago: TRAINS - Simon, Simon, Simon ... how deliciously orchestral is this piece? You have done amazing job with this composition. You have balanced tone and colour with atmosphere and ambience and the recurring instrumental themes bind this work together. Excellent work!

UNTITLED - In listening to this piece, I wanted to refer to it as "The Calling." It has a distancing to it that beckons the listener to embark upon the adventure of imagination. I particularly like the strong undertones that speak of being singularly devoted to a purpose without being inflexible.

REMEMBRANCE - This piece is melancholy in painful shards of shattered internalizations. I see great potential with this piece and I believe you could tighten up the arrangement some more, keeping it sparse as it is now, to make it even more haunting. I find when the piano comes in solo at 1:39 that it is too heavy for the mood you have created up until that point. I would consider playing the melody in octaves to balance out the low and mid tones with some much needed high tones.

THE ISLAND OF MERELD - This makes me think of medieval times and small pockets of people living in the forest, soft rainfall and impending doom. It is both unsettling and beautiful at the same time.

MERELD BURNING - Ooooooooo I like the unexpected chords and chord progressions as well as the disharmony that disrupts the harmony within the arrangement. At 1:43, you can see the impending danger begin to lick at the edges of Mereld and you can sense the tension.

Simon, you are an extremely visual composer. By that I mean that your arrangements force the listener to "see" what you are seeing in your minds eye when you are composing and arranging.

If there's one thing I could strongly suggest to you to improve your writing, it is this: Stop apologizing for perceived flaws. You are a talented composer and you are able to rise above any technical flaws your equipment brings to the product.
HUMANOISE | 17 days ago: Nice picture, Simon!!
Wish you luck!
Seeyaa

HIROTO.
Richard Thomas | 20 days ago: Hi Simon, thanks for calling.
You've been very productive! I've listened to your music in a haste. Please forgive me. We're in the middle of a removal. A lot of things have to be done, new kitchen, plastering, painting etc.
I'll come back to you later.
Best wishes,
Richard
My Mi7 Collabs | about 1 month ago: "I refer the right honorable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago ..." Or rather, four months ago, Simon, on your blogs: We are all students at different points ... Regarding your comment, "what do I know, heck, I'm a total beginner!!" Simon, I don't care where you are along "the road." We've all got a point of view. All I know or care about is that you're in ... In The Race. And, playing with style, by the way.

Keep me updated with new stuff, dude.

Thanks for your words, too, my man. Create to Live. CMArtie
My Mi7 Collabs | about 1 month ago: Hey, Simon.

Swung by to check out Untitled & Nightmares.

You have a lot of "Dun, Der, Der, Dun" crescendo moments in your pieces, which makes me think of gladiators/armies marching/battles, etc. My question, is there always a battle about to begin? If so, good, you've captured the moment.

Nightmares is dark and moody, but on a purely surface listening level, I prefer the melody of Untitled, with that bell tolling in the background it makes me think of the aftermath of something ... a battle, perhaps? 8—) Hey, here come the "Dun, Der, Der, Duns!" But seriously, Simon, without those crescendos, it could be quite a serene piece of music. Nice!

Hope you're well, creative, and not having nightmares anymore. Keep crankin' them tracks, dude. CodeMonkeyRT
My Mi7 Collabs | about 1 month ago: Dude.

Got your message. My computer's at the Mac Doctors at the moment. When it's back, I'll give your tracks a spin; looking forward to more terror, carnage, and mayhem. 8—)

Nice one, Simon. Hollywood says hi. RT
HUMANOISE | 3 months ago: Hi, Simon,
I feel on your songs what undiscovery islands were destroyed, but people who live in islands have still just a little bet of "Hope!!!" I felt like that!
Wish you luck!!!
Seeyaa
HIROTO.
Lo Kivikas | 3 months ago: Var i Stockholm?
Lo Kivikas | 3 months ago: Well, aren't you amazing, I'm struggling just to learn how to get the voice into the mic, into the computer, into the headphones, out through the speakers, warnings like overloaded, lot of delay so the rhythm totally leaves me and...:) I'm impressed! And, thanks for your sweet comment. Keep it up!

Lo
Mats Paulsen | 3 months ago: Thank you very much for the uplifting words. Take care!
Mindmovie | 3 months ago: Hi Simon THANKS VERY VERY MUCH FOR YOUR NICE WORDS ABOUT MY MUSIC - All I can say is that I am overwhelmed by all the positive feedback I have received from such great musicians as you are
arti31023 | 3 months ago: Simon—Bezegusta: You succeeded!
Battles, death, slavery, anarchy, corruption, terror, despair, bandits, beautiful islands destroyed and in chains, decapitated heads, knife wounds to the neck/blood fountaining up into the air in a red gush ...? Dude, erhm, got any songs about nerdy inner turmoil? 8—) RT
My Mi7 Collabs | 3 months ago: Yo, Simon.
See you’ve met evil uncle Artie 8—)
What he is trying to say is that it is charming to see someone such as yourself being so open in your blogs and bio about the awesome challenge of teaching yourself recording techniques. It is really interesting for us to follow your journey. We can all learn from it; we all remember it.
Echoing the words of Uncle Steve, it is only you who is piling on the pressure by wanting instant results. One foot in front of another, dude. Be an Ant: step by step ... and that mountain will fall.
See you along the road. Best. Mr. Mi7 Collabs. RT says Hi, by the way.
a real mf | 3 months ago: thanks for listening......interesting music you have. i am always inspired to hear other peoples "take" on life!!!
flamingbess | 4 months ago: Hello Simon, very nice words we would like to say thanks to you for being a friend and for your compliments. All the best to you and keep the music up mate.