Habitat - Notes

Orchestra Line-Up

5 Violins
3 Violas
2 Celli
1 Bass

Flute (+ Picc, Bass)
Oboe (+ English Horn)
Clarinet (+ Bass Clarinet)
Bassoon (+ Contra Bassoon)

French Horn

Guitar

Piano

Forest

Spring Day

Strings: Pizzicato Beginning + Irregular Swells

Bassoon: Sustains Irregular Swells

Spring Night

Strings: Sustains with Swell

Clarinet, Bass Clarinet: Sustains with Swell

Summer Day

Strings: Irregular Swells

Guitar: Sustains

Tubular Bells (existing samples)

Summer Night

Clarinet, Flute: Soft Sustains

Autumn Day

Strings: Flautando Sustains (very soft)

Bassoon, Horn: Very soft Sustains

Autumn Night

Horn, Clarinet: Soft Sustains

Winter Day

Solo Cello: Sustains + light ponticello

Clarinet: Sustains

Winter Night

Bassoon, Double Bass: Sustains Soft

Pond

Spring Day

Celli, Bass: Tap on body, Pizzicato

Guitar: Sustains with exotic guitar

Piano: Plucked

Spring Night

Flute: Noise Attack (Staccato)

Clarinet:Sustains with Vibrato

Viibraphone (existing samples)

Summer Day

Strings:
Pizzicato (2 octaves above) for first attack
Irregular Ricochets (very soft)

Guitar: Irregular Ricochets (very soft)

Summer Night

Piano: Sustains (1 octave above)

Strings: Col Legno Tratto

Autumn Day

Strings:
Flageolet Irregular Tremolo
+ trem bursts (ordinario)

Clarinet: Sustains soft

Flute: Irregular flutter

Autumn Night

Strings: Sustains Soft on the bridge

Clarinet, Flute: Short Irregular Swells

Winter Day

Solo Strings: Sustains without Vibrato

Clarinet: Sustains Soft

Horn: Sustains Soft

Winter Night

Solo Cello: Sustains Soft

Horn: Sustains Soft

Clarinet: Sustains Soft

Flute: Sustains Soft (one octave lower)

Ocean

Spring Day

Strings: Sustains Con Sord Soft

Spring Night

Clarinet: Sustains soft

Strings: Sustains soft

Horn: Sustains soft

Summer Day

Strings: Slow irregular tremolo

Oboe: Sustains Soft

Summer Night

Strings: Sustains to Tremolo in waves

Clarinet, Flute: Sustains Soft

Autumn Day

Strings, Clarinet, Flute: Waves against each other (Strings vs Woodwinds)

Autumn Night

Strings: Irregular Portatos Swell

Piano, Guitar: Sustains

Winter Day

Strings: Flagolet sustains

Horn, Clarinet, Flute: Sustains soft

Winter Night

Strings: Sustains + Harmonics (+1 octave)

Horn, Clarinet: Sustains Soft

Meadow

Spring Day

Flute, Clarinet: Fortepiano (with Sustain), Flute a 5th higher

Strings: Divisi Sustains 5ths + Irregular 5ths

Piano: in 5ths

Spring Night

Horn: Stopped

Bassoon, Oboe: Sustains

Strings: molto vibrato, poco sul pont. Sustains

Summer Day

Horn, Bassoon, Oboe, Flute: Sustains

Strings: Pizzicato

Summer Night

Horn, Bassoon, Strings: 4h rip + Sustains

Autumn Day

Horn, Bassoon, Oboe, Clarinet: Sustains

Autumn Night

Horn stopped: Sustains

Strings: Sustains

Winter Day

Felt Piano: Sustains

Horn, Clarinet: Sustains

Winter Night

Low Strings: Sul Ponticello

High Strings: Pizzicato Hits

Clarinet, Horn: Sustains

Heathland

Spring Day

Strings: Sul Ponticello + slight detuning

Flute: Sustains

Spring Night

Gitarre, Piano: Sustain

Strings: Sul Ponticello + slight detuning

Summer Day

Horn, Oboe, Clarinet, Flute: Marcato

Strings: Pizzicato

Summer Night

Solo Strings: Portato

Solo Strings: Flageolet Tremolo Crescendo

Autumn Day

Horn: fff Sustain

Strings: Sustains ff molto vib

Autumn Night

Horn, Bassoon, Oboe, Clarinet, Flute: Sustains ff

Strings: Flageolet Tremolo FAST & FURIOUS

Winter Day

Clarinet: Sustains soft

Strings: Flautandissimo sustains soft

Piano, Guitar: Sustains

Winter Night

Horn, Bassoon, Oboe: Portato

Flute + Clarinet: Air Noise irregular swells

Strings : Flageolet after portato +1 Octave

Mountains

Spring Day

Strings: Sustains

Horn: Cuivre Swell

Spring Night

Strings: Sul tasta soft

Horn: Sustains Soft

Bassoon: Sustains

English Horn: Sustains

Summer Day

Horn Portato Attack Sustains ff

Summer Night

Strings: sul tasto

Clarinet: sustains soft

Autumn Day

Horn: soft swell

Autumn Night

Horn + Bassoon: Sustain + Portato Anfang

Strings: Tremolo Swell – delayed attack

Winter Day

Piccolo: Sustains

Clarinet: soft sustains

Strings: very noisy soft sustains

Waterphone

Winter Night

Solo Cello: Sustains

Double Bassoon, Flute + Clarinet Airy Noises Swells irregular

Coast

Spring Day

Clarinet

Strings ppp tremolo

Spring Night

Horn, Bassoon, Clarinet: Sustains soft

Strings: Flageolet sustains delayed

Summer Day

Bassoon, Clarinet + Flute 8va

Strings ppp non vib

Guitar tremolo bursts soft

Summer Night

Clarinet, Oboe: soft sustains

Soft Strings: slow irregular movements

Autumn Day

Horn, Bassoon, Clarinet + Flute 5th later

Autumn Night

Low Strings molto vib, poco sul ponticello

Violins 8va flageolet

Winter Day

Oboe, Flute

Strings soft sul tasto, divisi sul ponticello

Winter Night

Strings pizz + very soft swell molto vib

Piano

Stream

Spring Day

Strings, Flute, Clarinet: Irregular fast arpeggios (diatonic)

Spring Night

Horn, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Bassoon: cIrregular Repetitions (reversed playback) in 5ths

Strings: Sustain soft in 5ths + Sul tasto

Summer Day

Strings Octave Finger Tremolo Bursts ad lib with decrescendo (delay effect)

Summer Night

Guitar (reversed playback): Irregular Repetitions

Piano (reversed playback): Irregular Repetitions in Octaves

Autumn Day

Strings: Pizzicato / Tap on body ad lib

Clarinet: Short improvised bursts

Autumn Night

Strings, Clarinet: Con Sordino Sustains

Piano, Guitar: Irregular Repetitions

Winter Day

Strings: sul pont + flageolet bouncing sustains

Clarinet: irregular reps (morse code like)

Winter Night

Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon: Waving Sustains

Low Strings: Tremolo bursts with synth sound colla parte

Wetland

Spring Day

Strings: Pizzicato

Bassoon/ Contrabassoon: tritone above

Swell + Flutter

Clarinet soft ppp sustain Octave above

Spring Night

Low Pizz + Bassoon/contra stac

Bass Clarinet slow reps morse code like

Summer Day

Muted Horn + Clarinet + Celli super sul tasto sustains soft

Summer Night

Muted Horn + Clarinet + Flute + Bassoon muted sustains blurry waves

Autumn Day

Strings: Bartok Pizz + Tremolo Swell

Guitar, Piano: Sustain upbeat

Flute + Horn 8vb marcato (echo)

Autumn Night

Horn: Fortepiano

Bassoon: Flutter tongue fp

Strings Octave Tremolo ppp

Winter Day

Strings, Flute, Clarinet, Horn wavy sustains

Winter Night

Strings, Flute, Clarinet, Horn pitch wave swells

solo strings tremolo bursts

Lake

Spring Day

Horn, Clarinet: Swells

Piano, Guitar: Irregular Octave Reps

Spring Night

Strings + Horn + Oboe + Bassoon Swells
Flageolet 8va later swells

Summer Day

Horn, Clarinet: Sustain Soft

Piano: Plucked Octave above

Summer Night

Strings con sord super duper sul tasto swells ppppppp-ppp-pppppppp

Autumn Day

Clarinet (fff) + Bassoon + Horn stopped swell + Low Strings non vib swell

Autumn Night

Stopped Horn + Strings non-vib poco sul pont

Winter Day

Strings poco sul pont + Horn + Clarinet + Bassoon very dynamic swell pppp-fffff-ppp
Strings flageolet

Winter Night

Strings soft swell + solo flageolet later

RR, Layers, and Range for all 10 instruments

(yes, the 10 instruments have the same specifications and articulation names)