The Diary of Sauli Hirvi

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Online Guide to Orchestration

Posted on August 28th, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

Com­poser and orches­trator Thomas Goss has a great video series on You­tube called Online Guide to Orches­tra­tion. He goes through the dif­fer­ent ele­ments and tech­niques of the craft in an inter­est­ing man­ner. He also has great score-reading videos in which he breaks down clas­sical pieces, one of which I’ve embed­ded as an example below.

New Song — Stars

Posted on July 25th, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

I present you with a new song called Stars, which turned out pretty nice. It pon­ders the dis­tant future of human race. If humans travel to the stars someday, will the col­on­ists sep­ar­ated by huge dis­tances and liv­ing in dif­fer­ing envir­on­ments evolve into dis­tinct spe­cies, unable to repro­duce with oth­ers colon­ies? Or will they mingle […]

A nossa última con­versa (Our Last Talk)

Posted on June 14th, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

Por­tugese dir­ector Miguel Peres asked to use two of my songs for his short film A nossa última con­versa (Our Last Talk) and I was more than happy to oblige. The film was fea­tured at Festroia film fest­ival in Por­tugal. Check it out. Below, for your enjoy­ment, are the com­plete tracks.

My Teen­age Years

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

A friend found an archive con­tain­ing some of my old MOD and XM songs. I spent a good part of my teen­age years in front of Scream Tracker and Fast Tracker. Also, before MP3’s, a lot of the music we listened to was tracker music. We had large lib­rar­ies of songs by other people like […]