Two more cues from this weekend. A jazzy, fusion thing with my first real piano solo kind of a little reminiscent of Santana I guess.
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And a piece that takes influence from a couple of tracks from the Matrix Revolutions by Don Davis. Starts out with brass cluster swells and heads into a cool electronica dance rhythm.
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…and here’s an update on that Matrix-ish thing. With two more sections developed, this is starting to sound like a soundtrack, though its perhaps getting away from the Matrix a little.
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I am currently working on some sketches for a film I will be working on starting in September or so. These may or may not appear in the film, but I thought I’d get myself into the style of what might be. The brief called for a score somewhere between the Oceans series and the Matrix. I’ve gone more for the funky vibe of the Oceans series for now…
Southside Underscore. Starts out as an underscore, then kicks into high gear… 2’52″
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Skippy. This may be well over tempo, but was an idea for end credits that kind of fitted a scenario I was given for the end of the film. It works at a much slower tempo too. 2’02″
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Wake Up! This was an initial uptempo idea, possibly for part of the trailer. 2’02″
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A couple of short Scene Change type stings… just a few seconds each.
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LA Scoring Strings is a most fantastic string library, and recently it was updated to add a function called Auto Accompaniment. If this brings back memories of the old Casio or Bontempi keyboards, you’ll have to clear your mind. What auto accompaniment does here is split parts intelligently between the instruments playing. What that means is that you can write a string tune on a single MIDI track, and it will split your file between whatever instruments you choose to play it.
I thought I’d start with a string quartet (in actual fact, one violin, viola, cello and double bass). I also added a piano part too. So just remember that very little effort has been put into this string part – it was played live into Cubase on my keyboard.
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The Auto Accompaniment feature is tweakable and comes with many preset ensembles, so you can use it for intelligent auto-divisi between sustained parts, or fast articulations. A great time saver for LASS users.
I was honoured to be invited to have a piece played at the electronic music end of year concert at MUN on April 9th. I jumped at the chance, and have been working at re-working, starting with a piece that I wrote back in 2006 called Jarresque (named after one of the pioneers in electronic music, Jean Michel Jarre). In its original form, Jarresque was about 60% acoustic, with strings, piano, guitars, bass and drums, as well as a couple of synths. Now its almost entirely synths, except for a cameo by the amazing LA Scoring Strings that make a brief appearance at the five minute mark.
The re-incarnation will be called Jarresque Nouveau, and it’s six and a half minutes of relaxed almost completeness are in the player below…
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The original version if you want to compare, is in the player below.
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I am currently working with Jason Hayward on an interesting album of electronic music. This is likely to be ongoing for some time, but it makes a great change from the more traditional instrumentation I tend to work with.