Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Sentientes

Things have been busy recently with Christmas and such.  Carols, presents, family, the celebration of the Child, I'm enjoying it.  I've considered whipping up a Christmas piece but also have several other pieces in the works right now.  We'll see.

Anyway, I just finished up a very emotional piece.  I have pictures of prodigals and forgiveness in my head when I listen to it and I thought about naming it "Forgiveness".  I wanted something a little more general and obscure so I went with the Latin word for sentiment: Sentientes.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Narnia, and the North!

Have you read the book The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis?  If your answer is no, then I would highly recommend that you not bother with the rest of this post and go straightaway and read it.  No joke.  Not only is it a great book, but having read it will possibly further stimulate reverie when you hear the piece I am about to show you.

But first let's back up a bit.  About a year ago, my friend Jonathan Maiocco composed two pieces meant to portray various parts of The Horse and His Boy.  He is an excellent composer and so naturally these pieces were well written and picturesque of the book.  You can listen to both "Main Titles" and "Tashbaan" by clicking on their names.

That said, I've taken (with his permission) some of the themes he's written for these pieces and incorporated them into a piece I've composed for The Horse and His Boy.  The title of this new piece is "The Fight at Anvard" and it is meant to be picturesque of the chapter in the book by the same name.



I have previously written a piece for The Horse and Boy titled "Lions!".  It was a lowly first try.  Heh-heh.



Enjoy the tunes!

Monday, October 1, 2012

Something Old-ish

Back in March of 2011 I had a terrible itch.  I had written a few half-way decent tunes, and such, but had never actually composed a soundtrack before.  I needed to scratch the itch, really bad.  So without a word or warning I decided to write a little score for a fight scene my elder brother, Cooper, and his friend had made awhile before.  It was in fact an okay piece of music but its marriage to the video wasn't all that great.  I think I've learned a lot since.  In both composing and programming.

Unfortunately, I don't have a version of the video with soundtrack, but I can show you them separately.

Here's the video:

And here's the music:

Monday, September 24, 2012

The Music Box

In the words of the beloved Count Olaf: "Hello, hello, hello!"

I have several small musical projects going on these days and one slightly larger and exciting one (it's a collaboration with another composer).  Expect to hear the exciting one within the next few weeks.  A very tiny little piece I came up with on one of these fine autumn days.  You might enjoy giving a listen and even making a comment.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

String Quartet!

Alrighty!  My Summer has thus far been super busy and super awesome.  Lots of music.  Anyway, as of late I've been working on writing a piece for string quartet.  I just finished the composition and the mock-up in the computer.  I hope to have it all recorded by September!  But for now here's the mock-up for your enjoyment.  :D

EDIT. I removed this track from my SoundCloud page, so if you wanna hear it, message me or something.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Elegy

I had a great celebration of Independence Day!

Anyway, I'm simply in love with East West's Sample library Hollywood Strings.  It's simply marvelous.  I'm in the works with a few compositions which utilize it.  In fact, I just finished a short little piece.  Take a listen.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Sorry 'bout that . . .

So-o-o . . . just in case you we wondering, I haven't stopped posting on this blog forever.  But, granted, I haven't posted in a long time.  Let's just say in the words of Gandalf the Grey: "I was delayed".  :D

Back in February of this year I went to a film festival in San Antonio Texas.  Well in a strange turn of events my laptop (which, by the way, was what I composed all of my music on) was taken from me against my will (i.e. stolen).  Maybe that might help you understand why you haven't heard much music coming from my corner of the Farthing in a bit.

By the way, I've been reading Lord of the Rings.

Now, Providence has been good to me in all this and now I have better tools to produce music with than from before my laptop was stolen.  I am very grateful.

So!  I have a few projects going on now and I have two sketches or tests, or whatever you want to call them, for you to hear.  Here you go:

EDIT: I removed these tracks from my SoundCloud page, so if you wanna hear them, message me or something.


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Origins

I had been working on two separate songs.  One slow and mysteriously bittersweet.  The other vast and epic in proportion.  I wasn't really sure where I was going with either, they were really just some expositions on various melodies and motives I had come up with in free time.  So, I decided to combine the two.  I liked how it worked out and decided to keep it that way.  It reminded me of the beginning of a movie, so I named it Origins.
  Origins by Daniel White Music


Oh, and Happy New Year!