The Beginning of the End

Hey peeps.  God is great!  I've been having a lot of inspiration for all kinds of music these days.  I think part of it comes from the fact that I just got back from the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival last Sunday.  Through that I was able to meet and fellowship with all manner of filmmakers as well as film composers (as well as watch all sorts of amazing movies).  One of the highlights of the festival for me was that the founder of the Rhapsodize Music Network (a network of christian composers and musicians), Daniel Lamb a fellow composer and friend of mine, had a booth set up at the vending hall of the festival.  This allowed filmmakers as well as other composers to become connected with similar people.  Networking with all these people was super exciting and very encouraging to, hopefully, all of us.  In case I haven't made it clear, it was awesome.

Anyway, if you'd like to check out some of these other composers' webpages, head over to the RMN website and click on Artists: http://www.rhapsodizemusic.com/network/

Also, I have a new song!  It's called The Beginning of the End.  As a side note, I have been studying a lot about audio mastering recently and so, hopefully, you can hear noticeable improvements in the sonic quality of my tracks.

Cheers!

Run!

This Christmas was awesome, as well as far too short.  By the time all the wassail was drunk and the last day of Christmas rolled around, I was ready to keep going!  But ah well, there's always a next year . . . or is there?  O.o

Anywho, I've written something as epic, cliche, action-packed, gigantic, and cinematic as I can make it.  This  is the kind of composition that comes fast and furious because there's so much music already out there that is in the same style, so I have a lot to draw from.  Of course, every soundtrack fan out there just says "I see you got the Hans Zimmer thing going on there".  Bless them.

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

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!

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!

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:

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.

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!