VINCENT
is a one man band. He composes and plays music
of various genre. His most popular work is in
the classical and easy listening genre. Vincent
is also an artist, writer, animator and musical
composer as well as video/ audio editor. His company
VW Productions produces
quality animated movies that are family oriented.
If you go to the movie
page you will see animated movies that he has
for sale.
For free
music samples please go to the music
player page.
VINCENT
does music gigs. If you love New Age/ Classical
music email VINCENT and he will come and play
for your social event. Vincent can also play other
styles of music as long as he can find the sheet
music. Please go to
Gigs/Calendar page for more details.
Vincent plays a Yamaha PSR-520 keyboard, which
has hundreds of instruments and hundreds of different
music beats and has 4 channels of orchestration.
Vincent will be playing songs from his two latest
albums during the show, "Cascade of Emotions,"
and "Tumult." Visuals will also be displayed on
the wall or a screen that go along with his music.
Vincent is also an artist/ video-audio editor
so all the visuals and music videos displayed
are his original work.
Vincent
has a graphic art degree from Bob Jones University,
a printing certificate from Danville Community
College, and a certificate in Multimedia Web Design
from the Art Institute of Charlotte.
Vincent was an art teacher and taught art for
grades K-8 in 4 different school systems for 6
years. Vincent is single and lives in the beautiful
rolling hills of Southern Virginia.
Vincent
has always had a big imagination and has written
many stories since he was a child. He always loved
music and took music lessons when he was about
8 years of age, but didn't really play much anymore
until about 15 years ago. In 2002 while he was
taking classes at the Art Institute Vincent began
to experiment with his keyboard and audio software
after becoming familiar with similar types of
software he was learning at the Art Institute.
At that time is when he began to compose music
on his keyboard.
Also
during his time at the Art Institute where he
learned flash and dreamweaver he began to take
some of the stories he had written and started
to turn them into animated movies. Vincent's story,
"The Fall of Telgar" was written about
10 years ago, but was unfinished. He had already
done some hand animated scenes but now he was
able to use computer software to further his story
and produce a better product. He had used classical
music in previous animated test scenes, but now
he was beginning to compose his own music for
each scene.
At the
Art Institute he was not only taught to use graphic
and web software like dreamweaver and flash, but
audio and video editing techniques with Adobe
Premiere. Using video cameras and video editing
equipment was also part of the program. In one
of his Vincent's latest projects, which he is
still working on, entitled: "Beast in the Woods,"
he mixes live film footage with an animated character.
Vincent
very much enjoys the entire creative process.
Animation involves writing a story, animating
the characters and scenery, voicing the characters,
composing the music and editing the sound and
video. Much of his music is composed with a Yamaha
PSR-520 keyboard and recorded onto a cdr machine.
He then takes the compact disc and saves the files
on his computer to be put into an audio editing
software program called Acid Music by Sound Forge.
In Acid Music he can drag and drop any sound effect
or alter the music any way he wants. Drum beats
can be added and Vincent likes to use gong effects
in certain songs.
Vincent
is a Christian and is involved with his church
by singing in the choir and occasionally plays
his keyboard for the congregations enjoyment.
Vincent very much desires to use his musical and
artistic talents to serve the Lord and further
the cause of Christ. Who
is Jesus? Click here to find out now.
If you
are interested in having Vincent play for your
church please email him!
New
Album for sale:
Please go to "The
Hills of Home" album page to hear music
clips.
To buy the album or separate music files,
please go to Store Page.
Other
places to buy "The Hills of Home" album:
Vincent's
new album, "The Hills of Home" is on sale at My
Music Site.com and is now on CDBABY.COM.
Physical album price is $12.97
and individual music files are .99
cents. Digital album sells for $9.99.
You
can also listen and buy
"The Hills of Home"
for $8.99
at Tarnius
Music.com and individual
songs for just 0.99
cents a piece.
So
you ask what do the songs from the album sound like?
The album is a nice mix of Contemporary Classical
and mellow Easy listening songs. The Easy Listening
songs are in a romantic vein that are similar to
the style of Yanni. The Classical sounding songs
range from very soft and relaxing like a soft Mozart
or a vivacious Vivaldi. There are other songs that
have a dramatic cinematic quality to them. The song
"Variations on a Serbian Theme" are based on the
beautiful music of Rimsky Korsakov. Vincent's version
has a mysterious and exotic tone to it with his
use of gongs and cymbals. Some of Vincent's songs
have the regal fanfares of a John Williams and the
New Age qualities of a Constance Demby. All of his
music is original and unique.
To
listen to sample music files from each album please
go to each album page. There is also a music player
page but it is in flash format. If your computer
can not read flash or has problems with flash please
sample the music clips from each album page.
Other Websites
where you can listen and learn more about Vincent's
music.
Vincent received two
awards from Radio Indy.com: A Gold Artsist Award
and a Grinde award for outstanding sound.
