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This blog contains the latest updates on my new music compositions, and comments about using music in film, theater, and video games.

June 5, 2020

Fun and Games

Fun and Games This week I composed a piece of new music in a completely new way. Well, it is new for me–many composers use this approach as a matter of course. I started up […]
June 13, 2020

Suspenseful Intro

Suspenseful Intro This week I repeated my earlier experiment. I composed this piece in Sibelius, and later imported it into my DAW. Let me explain a few details. I started up Sibelius, my notation program. […]
July 5, 2020

Ancient Middle-Eastern

Ancient Middle-Eastern This week I composed a short piece with a Middle-Eastern flavor. It was intended to be an introduction to a potential film project. The film story is set in the Middle East during […]
July 19, 2020

Prime Thickness: Comedy

Prime Thickness This week I composed a score for a short excerpt from a hilarious film, titled “Prime Thickness”. Filmed by PB Productions, it is about a teen-aged boy who has a thing for older […]
July 30, 2020

Hairball Jazz

Hairball Jazz This week I composed a film score for a film titled “Hairball”. The director gave me some temp tracks, and the first track was in the style of a jazz trio; piano, bass […]
August 11, 2020

Japanese Game

Japanese Game This week I composed two variants of a song for a Japanese video game. They are both based on the same melody, which is intended to be sung by a woman in Japanese. […]
August 21, 2020

Marching Band

Marching Band This week I joined an A&R music placement service called “TAXI”. The reason I did this, is that after a significant sign-up fee, submissions only cost $5 for a potential follow-on to a […]
August 28, 2020

Modern Middle-Eastern

Modern Middle Eastern In preparation for composing a score for the film Homeland Insecurity, I composed six style samples of modern Middle-Eastern music. Most of these pieces use one of several variants of a Middle-Eastern […]
October 31, 2020

Soul-Searching; for Video Game

Soul Searching; for Video Game I’ve been composing a lot of music for a series of machinima videos. These videos are animated using the Grand Theft Auto 5 engine. They are being produced by “That […]
November 12, 2020

Meditation

Meditation During the past few weeks I composed a set of relaxing pieces that are suitable for meditation, yoga, mindfulness training, and general relaxation. “We Look to the Heavens Above” is a slow, soft, sweet […]
December 8, 2020

Creepy Western

Creepy Western This week I composed a couple of cues for an upcoming short film by filmmaker Joe Boyce, titled “Winter Story”. He has a very interesting approach. He has given me a script, but […]
April 6, 2021

Video Game — 4 Atmospheric Variations

Video Game — 4 Atmospheric Variations While working on a score for a video game, I composed a melody, a motif that I thought could be very flexible. I could use the same melody for […]