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!

You Name It!

UPDATE: After much ado and advice from others (online and in person) I finally worked out a name for this piece: Memories. Hope you like it!

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So-o-o.  I just finished a piece.  It's different, but then again, I seem to be always going for different.  Attempting to expand my skills.  I wrote this piece with particular emotions or feelings in mind but nothing to name it by.  At least, nothing I would like to name it by.  So here's the deal: I want you to name it for me.

When you listen to this piece, what immediately pops into your head?  Eh?  A scene from a book?  A movie?  A place?  An emotion?  It can be anything.  If the piece does indeed evoke something (and hopefully it does) leave a comment describing it.  It might end up being, or inspiring, the future title of the piece!

Enjoy!

The Parlor

So, I decided to change things up a bit and take a slight break from cinematic music.  I'd never ever written a Jazz style piece, but now I've at least attempted.  Heh-heh.  Expect more genres coming from my direction!

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: