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The Making of "Il Passeggiato"

May 28, 2005

The kur is getting much more colourful in sound now and if we work on it and mix it one more day it'll be useful. We have to do one more try-out, so we go to Belgium again. It's beautiful weather, the hottest day so far and we arrive early. We drink coffee in Wayne's trailer, well, not really a trailer, it's a super deluxe camper which can take 5 horses. I thought Anky had a nice lorry, but this one is phenomenal. It even has my favourite coffee machine!

We listen to the music first. Wayne is very concentrated and is riding the test in his head. We count out loud before, during and after the transitions. It's works well with Wayne, hopefully it will too with Lorenzo.

Again we put the "driving disco Beamer" at the long side of the arena, put the cd on and start counting. We videotape the ride from the short side this time to check how steep Wayne rides his half passes. We're trying out the halt, because with male riders it takes a bit longer than with females who don't have to take off their hat.

The theme of The Godfather is perfect for the strings, a soft timpany with an extra beat to mark the transition for Wayne. The transitions are now musically smooth and only a couple need to get completely arranged, but the kur seems to be ready for 95%. Some minimal changes are still needed, though, to make it absolutely perfect. That's what Wayne wants and that's what we want.

My wife Mirjam joined us today and she's totally surprised at what is happening at the yard. The disco beamer, the head sets, the ear pieces. Mir makes a couple of photos and is impressed with Lorenzo, who is looking very athletic.

We have fine-tuned our computer skills and are now able to send Wayne the complete music and video clips to his server. We received our own password to upload everything and it works fast! We will be able to send him a studio quality version of the music when he's in Lipica. We also send him the montage of all the video clips so that he can watch the freestyle with the kur music fitting perfectly. This service is part of the job.

Wayne has much confidence in us and I'm sure we're going to offer him something great. All we need is one more day of Bullet Sound Studio for the final touch.

Hit ’m up Wayne, Move’m out Lorenzo, here’s The Italian ExtraVaganza

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