Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, Session Musician, Sound Engineer and Music Producer Brighton based (UK)
This is a full track for Obsidian Key Project, this track is a 9:00 minutes Progressive Rock Metal song inspired by Bram Stoker Dracula book, more info about the track here: https://www.obsidiankey.com/news/82-new-promo-song-released-bleeding-romance enjoy!
P.S. This track is available for download at: http://prog-sphere.bandcamp.com/track/obsidian-key-bleeding-romance
This is a snippet of a track for Obsidian Key Project, the full track is a 8:00 minutes Prog Metal track very rich of different elements from shredding to more classic Prog Rock, to great changes and groove, it’ll be available on Obsidian Key forthcoming album titled “LOUD!”. Enjoy!
This is an example of movie soundtrack I wrote, it’s just a snippet of the entire work, here I am playing keyboards. I used them to play each single line of the orchestra you can hear in this composition.
One of my blues tracks, it’s an instrumental Rock Blues track where I am playing Guitars (of course! lol), Bass and drums.
Enjoy!
In the previous part we had an introduction to what music is and how our brain searches for patterns to understand it. In this second part we start to explore in more details all the rules that allow musicians to create these patterns.
This is an “evergreen” question which I keep hearing around and reading about on music related forums and websites, so here is my modest contribution trying to answer such a complex question… … Continue Reading
First post for Obsidian Key – Diary from the studio!
Here we go, first post for the Diary from the studio and it’s about Obsidian Key single released in November 2012 and titled “Fading Away”. It has been a really interesting experience to work on such a kind of project and the result is a beautiful and intense song that seems to have been very much appreciated by both reviewers and fans!
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Often while chatting with friends and students, questions about “what is exactly” or “what are fundamental characteristics” of Progressive Rock compositions comes up.
What I noticed is that many people think that the fundamental characteristics are just presence of Spare Time Signatures (or Odd Time Signatures) and a keyboard player who can play solos… Honestly I find this a wrong definition and also very reductive, so here is some (and I repeat SOME) of the “must have” in order to define a track Progressive Rock or Progressive Metal. With that said remember that music is ART, so it is CREATIVITY mostly and therefore rules are made to be followed and to be broken (when you’ve learned them really well and you became capable of mastering them!).
Hi everyone,
this is my music related blog, here you will find posts about music composition techniques, different instruments techniques, orchestration, arrangements, sound recording, mixing and mastering, so more or less about what I do as composer, performer and producer.
If you prefer less music technical posts and/or you like Progressive Rock Metal I recommend you to read Obsidian Key’s “Diary from the studio” a blog about my best known project which aim to “document” all the music creation process for each album and single of one of the most popular new progressive rock metal project! You can find Obsidian Key – Diary from the studio here.
Thanks for reading and really hope you’ll enjoy the experience!
– Sonic V
I am studying as music producer and I already practice this amazing art with some local band here in Brighton…
After years playing and composing music, being a sound engineer I think the logical evolution would be to get into the secret art of music production.
I am specialized in the following music genres:
1) Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal
2) Rock, Rock-Blues
3) Heavy Metal and Hard Rock
4) Pop
Please click on the music genre you’re interested into to have examples of my productions.
Please contact me for more details.
Sonic V 