Dormir OST

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I agreed to do this score sometime last year. This was an ambitious thesis project directed by the same man who did GhostBusted (AP from last year). He liked what we did on his AP, so I have returned to provide sweet, sweet music for his thesis!

The storyline of Dormir follows a young, successful artist who struggles with drug addiction, falling hopelessly in love with a dream girl along the way. I shall attempt not to spoil anything because the film is awesome, and I will have a link to it at some point in the future. Until such time; enjoy the score.

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Hyd OST

Pumping out scores like no other this semester; here’s the second one finished, for Ryan Von Bengfort’s “HYD”, which, incidentally, happens to be based on the same source material that I wrote a symphony on last year. When he mentioned that he was shooting a thesis based on Jekyll & Hyde, I didn’t even bother reading the script before accepting the project. It had to be done.

Unfortunately the project wound up being extremely tight on time, so there’s not a whole lot of music here, but what we got through worked amazingly well for the film. No download link this time; this will be released on the next compilation album in June, unless somebody begs for it in which case, fine, you can have it early. Much love.

Four tracks, arrows will scroll through them, or it’ll play automatically through if you just leave it.

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Legends

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Presenting the latest extensive music project, which I have been forced against my will to keep under wraps for a little longer than I wanted due to a late release date of an art exhibition which the piece is part of. Kind of. I mean I haven’t already posted it to YouTube or anything, but regardless.

First off, credit where credit is due. In December when I started working on this project, I commissioned a short story from one Brett Wilkins, which this entire symphony is based off of. I’m not going to spoil the details; there’s plenty of fun stuff awaiting in the download, so be sure to check that all out. I recommend reading the story while listening to the music; that was the entire point of this project in the first place, so do it like it was intended.

While you’re waiting for the download, check out The Luminarium’s latest exhibit, of which the Legends symphony is a part of; I managed to grab a featured spot with this piece, so that’s pretty awesome.

Until next time: 320kb/s mp3 as always.

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The Ark OST

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Score for Sam’s AP, “The Ark”, which screens at Chapman University in Folino Theater on December 11th. In typical musical tradition, the score is releasing the night before. Mixed in 5.1 for extra epic on the final cut. This was my “big” score for the semester.

“The Ark” is a sci-fi drama about humanity reaching the technological singularity (read up on this), and what happens to those caught in the events that follow.

Some nice album artwork and 4 cues @ 320kbps awaiting at the download. Enjoy.

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The Princess and the Assassin

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This has been in the works for at least 4 months now. The piece originally started out as a segment of the next symphony, but I gradually realized that it didn’t fit the concept material I was working with and I eventually started working on it out of context, and it became this.

This is what is classically called a “symphonic poem“/”tone poem”. 9 minutes long, one single movement, based around the conceptual characters from a game I’ve been playing lately called “Dishonored”. The idea here is two contrasting themes, one for the Princess of the story and one for an Assassin named Corvo, presented and interwoven. There is no set “story” in this, per say, just a feeling/mood/idea that is to be evoked. It’s more music for music’s sake, but there is some background to it.

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Introduction

Some quick stuff. I’ve been working on this for a grand total of less than 24 hours.

Started at 2am on Tuesday morning, finished at 1:45am on Wednesday morning. I had some random spurt of inspiration the night before and figured I might as well make it short and sweet rather than trying to make it another 15 minute long thing.

So yay! This will be the intro for the C&S: VIII.

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So It Continues

Here we have it, the third iteration in the endless remix of The Continuum. If you’re interested in the utter crap it sounded like when it was first produced, check out Audiology and have a listen. It’s come a long way since then. Next is probably a dubstep version. But let’s give it a year or two before we jump into that. In the mean time, I have other massive projects (as usual) in the works. Until such time as those can be released (while I spend the majority of my time agonizing over leitmotifs), enjoy these little intermittent electronic releases that serve to both a) hold you over, and 2) keep me from destroying my computer from lack of inspiration.

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And, as usual, 320kb/s mp3. Lots of new synths and sounds, I’ve been combing the internet since I realized that the stuff I’ve been using is, in reality, utter crap. Here is your download link.

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Insomniac

I’ve been working on this one on and off for a little over a month now. Started it right after the Jekyll and Hyde, then worked on it off and on in random spurts at 2am. Hence the title.  This will be the music backing the racing video I shot of David and Chris back in July, when I eventually get around to finishing that as well.

Also, I’ll make the artwork for the compilation soon and release that so you have that, if you want it.

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Sidebar: I’m going to attempt some form of dubstep within the next month or so. Not sure how that’ll work out, but maybe it’ll be cool and you’ll get to listen to it.

Yay for no compression again! 320kb/s mp3, as usual. Enjoy your download ladies.

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And What Follows

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The latest mix is out! First music in nearly three months… Brutal. About two weeks ago, I started to get some ideas flowing again and this started to take form.

So, a little about the pretentious title: “And What Follows Is Not Discord, but Eternal Entropy and Ice”. Every time I’ve written any bit of music in the last year or so, I’ve been reading about astrophysics, the universe, quantum physics, and I write with these really vivid images in mind. And every time I’ve released something, I’ve had an accompanying Wikipedia article. This month’s selection is Entropy. Read about it while listening to this. The title itself is a result of a quote one Brett Wilkins found while searching quotes on astrophysics pages. The quote itself refers to the Big Bang, and the expansion of the universe.

This isn’t a symphony, but it’s not a short piece either. 18 minutes of ambient split into two movements, each just over 9 minutes long. No break between movements, which is something new (and a massive pain to do quickly, as I’ve found out…), but each has it’s own character.

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College and Stuff: Volume II

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We’re at that time again. It astounds me that college is blowing by at such an alarming rate; seems like it was, max, 6 months ago that I was moving in to a freshman dorm on a 102 degree day in August. Now we’ve been from there to two different apartments, met a new group of friends, and grown up with them in photos and in music in two short years. And the music’s just getting longer and more complex, and there’s more of it; this compilation album is up to nearly three hours worth of music (last year was just under two hours). I built a new computer this year for the express purpose of handling the workload I was throwing at it. Stuff’s changing. We press ever onward.

Anyways, as promised, here is a years worth of all the music that I’ve made minus one or two cues from projects that weren’t long enough to be officially included. The scores from the Senior theses and AP’s I scored this year are all in here (Shelter, Ghostbusted, The Temp, Bradley No Friends, among others), along with rescoring projects from school, the Electric Symphony, the Jekyll & Hyde Symphony, and all the trance/electronica from the last year. Everything has been mixed down and mastered at 320kb/s mp3 as usual because quality is awesome. Hit up the album art for the download (439mb), have fun with it in iTunes. Enjoy, it’s a labor of love.

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Jekyll & Hyde – Symphony no. 2

Click on the album artwork to download the entire symphony with the cover art and program notes.

When I started this project nine months ago, I wasn’t aware that it would take me that long to finish it. Regardless, I’ve been promising and promising this for about seven months now. The entire symphony will also be available on the College & Stuff Vol. II compilation that will be out before June 15th (as I’m leaving for Lake Powell right then and don’t want to wait until July).

Filesize is 108mb, as all of the music is rendered out at 320kb/s mp3 files. Once again, quality. You need it and want it.

 

 

Clicking on the play button below will start the symphony, and each movement will cycle through automatically. Clicking the red arrows will cycle through the movements.

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Helios

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A very short sketch I made between last night and today. I was watching this video and it just kind of clicked…. It’s kind of nice to write something so short like this, I might do this more often to get out more ideas rather than trying to stretch each and every motive into a 15 minute long symphony.

At any rate, enjoy.

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Shelter Original Score

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After two months or so of work, I present the finished Shelter score :D

Much work here. The score was completed about 50-60% over the course of 2 months, with lots of time taken to deliberate on instrumentation/sounds, effects, synths, motivic development, etc., and then the remaining 40-50% was finished from 12am-6am last night, thanks to a 16oz Red Bull and some last-minute inspiration.

No download here, it will be available with the release of College & Stuff: Vol. II sometime in June, along with several other scores including at least an independent pilot project and an AP. Hopefully I’ll have the Jekyll & Hyde symphony finished by then as well, but no promises.

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Skyward

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So what we have here is a combination of like three things: 1) a rejected score from a project I was working on recently, 2)some freeform random stuff, and 3) the Legend of Zelda remix Casey has been asking for for about a year.

Hence, “Skyward”.

Also, this, at a bit over 5 minutes, is the shortest song I’ve written in a while.
And I have artwork for the new compilation coming soon. Anyways, enjoy as usual.

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Supercell

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Originally wrote the free-form opening a few months ago, got discouraged, threw it somewhere in my hard drive, and forgot about it. A week ago, I was looking for something to do other than study for finals and I found it and got the idea to turn it it into what it is now. Lots of work on this one. I really struggled to make it into something decent, since I wanted it to be balanced but still a decent length to make it worthwhile to listen to. I’m still running on this “long music” kick. Really makes it a nice investment to listen through.

As usual, here’s your Wikipedia article. Thanks to Brett for the inspiration for the title. Read up and be amazed.

 

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The Electric Symphony v2

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I had a bit of time before my flight left for Seattle, so I spent it finalizing this project. This is most likely the final version, I have to quit this project before it takes over me, I keep finding more and more things to fix. I’ll just have to leave it how it is, 38 minutes of music is way too much to spend countless hours poring over.

ANYWAYS. Updated synths, strings, and brass, remastered with Maximus, and added a few extra orchestral sounds in the first and last movements. Bass boosted in every movement, kick sections cleaned up and refined, and some extra synths added before the drops of the first and last movements again. Second movement synths changed so they aren’t so repetitive, harmonized more, levels adjusted, and everything else I could find that was bugging me. Lots of stuff to download, deal with the file sizes. They’re 320kb/s mp3′s because I hate everything that isn’t high quality.

 

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Audiology

 

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Don’t be mistaken, this is old stuff. But in keeping with my goal of having everything I’ve made available in one place, I’m putting it up. I’ll keep it on the front page for a while before I eventually move it to it’s original publication date somewhere in the archives.

This is a weird compilation. Some of the stuff here is good, most of it is miserable. I wasn’t really great at mastering when I produced this. Interesting to listen to something closer to the “roots” of the sound I’m moving towards though. But regardless, here it is, at 320kb/s mp3′s. Much love, Happy Thanksgiving.

 

 

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Electric Symphony Update

Just a small update on what’s in the works in the music department, since it’s been over a month since I’ve released anything new on the site. I have a couple of new “ideas” running, and I’m going to try and get a recording of the reading of a piece I’ve been working on in composition seminar to put up on the site once that’s made.

My main project at the moment is a completely remastered mix of the Electric Symphony. The second movement is getting some overhauled synths, reworked strings, and a more sonically accurate climax. Movements 1 and 3 are just getting remastered, and the climax of movement 4 is being completely remastered for pants-wetting awesome. Expect this all in a few weeks or so, probably after Thanksgiving. At any rate, the photo of the day is still going strong, so bear with me while I finish the music projects :)

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Abaddon

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Originally written as a score for a short film (Jake Isham), this quickly turned in to a fully fledged orchestral arrangement, got about halfway done, and then sat on my hard drive for about two months collecting dust while other more important things got moved around. After that much time, I opened it back up, sat down for a few hours, and finished it. No electronics this time around, just pure orchestral writing.

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Update Regarding Music

I am now hosting all music directly on my own FTP server. This means that download speeds are up to 3x faster, and instead of “right click, save as” linking to Archive.org (away from the site), it will come directly from my own site’s files. This is good news. You can see how this works by going to the music page and downloading the “College and Stuff” .rar file if you haven’t already done so. That’s a 200mb file, and it downloads in about 2-3 minutes. That’s fast. I’ll be working for a while to update all of the links to the files; In about a day or two, all of my music will work this way, where it’s hosted directly on my website (instead of third-party archive.org, which is awesome, but also forces me to relinquish some of my copyrights in the process) and downloads straight from my own server. Yay.

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Black Holes Light The Way

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Written for a school project in a single sitting, around seven hours of straight up work. No insane Wikipedia article on this one this time, just some calm music. The time signature is a bit different, not my usual 4/4. Counted in eighths, the song is 14/8. Just listen, you’ll catch on. Written in FL Studio 10 with Reason rewired in. Apologies if the levels are somewhat off, I might have to fix them later. Wasn’t mixing with my usual headphones, as I left them in Seattle over the weekend.

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Chaotic Inflation

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This took about a week and a half with a multitude of computer crashes in between. Nice and complicated, as usual. I’ll update this post with the album artwork soon.

With all of the pieces from this new work coming out, I urge you all to Google the titles of the music. They often lead to mindblowing wikipedia articles and/or complex physics essays that make you feel horribly insignificant. Happy reading!

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Exaseconds and Genesis

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While experimenting with a number of ways to make synth strings sound better, I hit upon the gem of the idea that I had to work much harder. Thus, behold.

I was in a very speculative mood when I wrote this. Therefore, educate yourself while listening. Then read this to have your mind blown.

Also, note that this along with the Electronic Symphony marks the start of a new body of work, title currently pending.

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The Electric Symphony

While I was up in Seattle for the last two weeks, there wasn’t much to do for the majority of the time. To pass the time, I spent most of it on the computer writing an electric symphony.

Classical symphonies have very strict form- I took some of this to heart and then took creative liberties with the rest of it. There are four movements, combining for a total listening time of 37.5 minutes. This was an exceptionally large project.

Clicking play will start the symphony; it will automatically cycle through the entire piece. If you want to re-listen to a particular movement/section, use the red arrows to navigate. Hope you all enjoy.

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College and Stuff

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June to June, a year in music. Everything in here is everything that I’ve written from June 2010 to June 2011. Most of these are already available on the website, but here there are now, categorized, artworked, and ready to be added to your iTunes. Included in this release is all electronic music from forever, random tracks from jam sessions at friends houses, and all of the school projects and scores I did this year, including all of the tracks for Insertion (including a few tracks that were unreleased until now) and everything from A New Man, the Advanced Production from the film school that I scored. It’s a total of 2 hours of solid music.

Also of note: I don’t believe in compression. It makes music sound miserable, and despite what you all think you CAN hear the difference. Therefore, this is a massive download at 200mb. Deal with it, the end result sounds better.

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A New Man Score

About a month ago, I worked as a director of technology on an Advanced Production at Chapman University (photos from the shooting days here and here and here). After we wrapped, I was asked by the director to score the film, since the composer he had already talked to had backed out. I was thrilled, and got to work immediately. One month later, I present, to the public domain, my final score.

There are four total songs. The playlist will autoplay, but if you want to scroll through them, use the red arrows on either side of the player.

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Insertion Theme Reprise

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With this piece comes the announcement that I have finished the main theme for insertion. The theme can be heard in the other piece for Insertion that I have released on the website; this is the second track from the score that is public. The remainder of the soundtrack will be private until the film is finished.

Logic Pro 9, FL Studio 9.

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Any Means Necessary

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I’ve been on a writing kick for the last 72 hours now. This is my 3rd song in that amount of time. This must continue.

Anyways. This is something I was messing around with, it has a multitude of different time signatures throughout the song. I was also playing around with the Z3ta synth again, since I got it working exactly how I’ve wanted to be able to work it for quite a while now.

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Sweet Dreams Remix

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I’ve had this melody inputted in FL Studio for around a year; every so often, I’d open it up, play with it for a few minutes, and then close it for another 3 months. I finally had a spurt of inspiration followed by a wave of tutorials on using the Z3ta synth properly. Enjoy.

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Superstring

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Project for Music Technology. Sequenced in FL Studio, effects and mixing plus extra sounds done in Logic Pro 9.

Vocalist is Tiana Franzetti (Chapman University).

 

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Insertion Teaser Track

For your listening enjoyment, I present to you a small teaser song for part of the score I’m currently working on. This is part of a full score, not just a single score on its own; I’m working on the full-length soundtrack to a film that my friends at Chapman University are currently writing. Enjoy the teaser :)

Orchestration is a full string orchestra, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, French horns, and trombones. So far.

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Butterflies

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Don’t ask about the title. I don’t understand it either.

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Op. 2, No. 4

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Bad Lifeguard Remix

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Here’s the original video on YouTube. Enjoy. Go look at Nathan Worden’s awesome stuff.

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My Kingdom For A Sharpie Score

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Score written entirely in Logic Pro.

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Oscar Hayes Score

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Score for Sam Hemann’s “Oscar Hayes” short. Written in FL Studio, Logic Pro, and Ableton Live. Sound goes from opening credits through to the end credits.

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Search and Seizure

Created for the Esperanza High School volleyball team to rap to. Which they never did, but whatever. It was still funny while it lasted.

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Containment

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Heavy work on the glitching. This was the song featured in our first short film, Deception, for Chapman University’s Underground Showdown.

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Night Out Score

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Score for Michelle Lanthier’s “Night Out”.

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