Horror and Suspense Themes part 2
This suspense theme uses aleatoric elements to create a disoriented feeling. There is no key center until the ostinato at the end of the piece. Lots of fun electronic sounds mixed with the orchestra!
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Horror and Suspense Themes part 1
Some atonal scary music that builds to a startling climax.
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Themes of Sadness part 2
Here is some underscore for a sad scene in a mystical/fantasy film. It’s amazing how lush of a sound you can create with just strings, recorder, and Irish whistle. I feel like I learned everything I know about pastoral sounding strings from listening to Jessica Curry’s score for Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture.
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Themes of Sadness part 1
This is underscore music for a memory of a death scene in a film. It’s basically one long, low energy crescendo falling off into cold reality at the end.
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Love themes part 2
This is another love theme I wrote for a romantic scene. There was a lot of dialog in the first half of the scene, which is why the music stays so quiet until the big buildup to the kiss!
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Love scene music 1
This music was written for a sweet love scene between two very pretty and much younger (than me) people. Flutes and strings abound!
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Action movie trailer music
This is music for an action movie trailer that has to go through quite a lot of emotional content, from a love story to tension, to big huge combat scenes. The trailer had a ton of dialog, so it took a lot of very careful planning to fit melodic lines in between the dialog. Enjoy!
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Fantasy game branching music
This piece of music was written for Wwise implementation using branching. There are three sections: explore, tension, and combat. In the explore and tension sections, each phrase was written to be in random order to try to keep repetition down, so it’s a little strange to hear it linearly like this, but it still works. […]
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Evolving combat music
This was written for a space station 3rd person shooter, where you as the character are trying to escape by killing robots and hacking terminals. I wanted to avoid the tyranny of repetition that can happen in games while also respecting the memory allocation for music. This music is the culmination of a 2 layer […]
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Zombie Attack!
This was written for a game about a zombie attack. This is the combat music. It’s sort of a 12 tone composition that I forced into a key to give it enough of a “home” for people to be able to listen to. Tension, tension, and more tension was the goal
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