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I’m Cornelis – composer, violinist, and synth convert.
I create music inspired by myths, legends, and otherworldly tales.
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Wet Hands for Violin, Piano, and Synth
For a time during my younger years I spent SO many hours playing Minecraft. I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to do a little arrangement of this melody from the soundtrack. This is also incidentally the first time that I'm recording on this particular violin - it's...
Wielding a new homemade patch for Fantasy Synth on the Reface DX
The Yahama Reface DX is relatively new in my studio and although the stock presets it comes with are fantastic, I need more fantasy / dark / dungeony sounds on it for making fantasy synth or dungeon synth. This is a patch I programmed this morning, and I'm taking it...
Simple Melody on Fresh Gut
I was playing in some new gut strings with simple melodies and I thought - why not capture some of it? I'm trying a slightly thicker gauge string and I'm liking it so far. Please enjoy this little melody by Mozart 🙂 https://youtu.be/qqxLkFgahfA
An Improvisation on the Reface DX
A machine made for fantasy synth? I've recently welcomed this little synth into my studio - the Yamaha Reface DX. I'm a HUGE lover of FM synthesis and so it just makes me smile every time I play on this thing. I'll be customizing the presets in the coming weeks a bit...
Observation Arcade – Space Synth
A Re-release of an older album Originally released in March 2023, you might be asking “why write a newsletter about it now?”. As it happens, the album art for this work has recently received a facelift, hence my wanting to draw some attention to it 🙂 To provide some...
Little Dance for Baroque Violin
Over the past few years I've composed and arranged quite a volume of pieces for beginner / intermediate string players and I haven't shared much of that at all on my social channels, so I thought maybe it's time. https://youtu.be/qteQt9UzZ3M The Score Feel free to...
Nascense for Baroque Violin Trio
I arranged Nascence from the Journey soundtrack for an amateur string ensemble many moons ago, and I thought it might be nice to do a version for violin trio (with harp accompaniment). This recording was done on my baroque violin with raw gut strings. Cheers to Austin...
Music for the adventure of Thraxoxl
Greetings all! There is an adventure afoot… Thraxoxl, the Lizardfolk Paladin is about to embark on a dangerous quest and this album is his soundtrack. I’d like to invite you to my Bandcamp page to have a listen 🙂 . If you prefer Spotify then you’ll find that link...
Fantasy Ambient Music for Violin & Tagelharpa
A simple duet for violin and tagelharpa - it’s another track from my current album project which is rapidly approaching its conclusion. I don’t know about you, but I like how the strident quality of the violin compliments the lamenting voice of the tagelharpa 🙂 ,...
A Mouse of a Tale
Greetings! The time has come to release a new musical adventure into the wild. Next week (December 8) it goes live on Bandcamp and most streaming platforms. Hence my dropping by to let you know that you can now pre-order it on Bandcamp (I've never done a pre-order...
New Chapters in ongoing musical projects
Chapter 4 of Ambulare Ambulare is a side project that I’ve been working on every now and then since 2019. Those of you who have been around for a while will know that I sometimes just randomly drop a new installment of the Ambulare series… Well… here is another :)...
The Window of Cycles
Hello all! Continuing the musical trend of mine from the past few months, I’ve decided to dedicate much more time this year to writing and publishing chamber music. There was a period of time a few years ago when I wrote a lot of chamber music for strings -...