Day 483: In your movie

Here is a short piece that is basically a music cue.  I feel like I've gotten pretty good at this brooding,
intense, ominous, type sound and now need to expand my chops into some other orchestral areas.  I'm thinking that I need to work on Romantic, Adventurous, and Comedic things as well.  Better go watch some movies.

This was all done with Miroslav Strings and samples from Nine Volt Audio Action Drums, Cinematic Edition.

Day 92: Thru the Roof

An early experiment with routing.   Also an exercise from Hindemith's book The Craft of Musical Composition.

Lyrics:

When you want to catch a dream by the tail,
You want to wait and see where it leads.
Down they go, down the stairs, out the door, thru the roof, thru the floor

Day 77: Film Still Not Made

More music for a film that has yet to be made.

  This one finds our heroine stuck in a tight spot.  She is looking out over the land where the antagonist has her cornered, then looking back at her rag-tag group of followers.

•   Will she launch a full-on assault and fight her way out? 
• Will she hide and ambush him when he comes looking for her?  
• Will she come up with some third option that is truly original and no one in the theatre is expecting?  

What ever the case may be, you probably shouldn't get up to go to the bathroom right now.


Looks like it's about to get real.

Just for reference I keep going back to these drums.  They aren't the only ones here, but they are key.  In addition, the piano came from this.

Day 58: Film Music

Film music is something I hold very near and dear to my heart.  Actors on the screen are attempting to invoke an emotion, meanwhile the composer is attempting to do the same, but in a (usually) much more subtle manner.  This is an example of a less subtle manner, but an example all the same.

I imagine two possible applications here:

1. The King approaches on his horse (slow motion), sword drawn, about to deliver the felling blow to our hero, who is down.  Music ends after he dismounts and takes a few steps, bringing him inches away from the hero.

2.  The aged, evil king is slowly making his way across the throne room, all eyes on him, his would-be successor watches and plots.