Right from the offset, I wanted to find a way of not only posting original audio to this blog but also making available their orchestral scores for reference. Primarily for those who are interested and/or can decipher the complexities of music manuscripts. I’d been toying around with Sibelius Scorch but found the whole user experience a difficult nut to crack – I knew I didn’t want to ask my readers to download this relatively obscure browser plug-in just to view my scores. I had to look elsewhere.
I came across a little online publishing service called Scribd quite a while ago but never really made the association that it might be the perfect vehicle to publish these manuscripts online. So I’ll be making the first manuscript post directly after this.
I’d really appreciate knowing what you think. How could I improve this offering? Could you suggest any other web technology that could do this? In the conversion process performed by Scribd, it appears that the fidelity of thin score lines are compromised. I’m looking into a solution for this.
I really do not know what’s wrong with me at the moment. I seem to have swallowed a happy pill by mistake. I can’t stop writing jolly music at the moment. Could this cue get any more infectious? Featuring sleigh bells; horses; chimes; things that go ting and other things that flutter – it’s all in here. Is it all too gratuitous? Leave comments and let me know.
Enjoy the moment while it lasts:
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I promise the next few posts are definitely going to feature compositions of much darker moods.
Along the same lines as Comedic Antics, I’ve revised the previous Mischief Managed cue to incorporate some more ideas.
Here is the revision:
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This is a cue intended for an animation with no dialogue. It is written and orchestrated in the ilk of the old Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons where the music is often required to carry the slapstick and plot forward.
By far the most frequent comment I get from visitors and those who lend me their ear is that my audio samples are too short and they want to hear longer developed pieces. For a number of reasons—usually down to time and the fact that many are simply exercises, these samples are kept short. That said, SMN required me to send a longer sample track for panel review so I revised Comedic Antics in to more of a ‘piece.
Here is the revision:
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In time, I’ll work out a way to incorporate some of my longer-format works, including music for concert platform into this blog. However, first things first, I need to better organise my audio player. Coming soon…
Lee Sanders over at SCOREcast set a challenge to come up with a one-minute film cue in any genre with the only stipulation that the only note allowed to be used is ‘C’ (if a note is sounded). Breaking the C-ode is what I managed to produce in a few hours messing around in Logic Studio.
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I wanted to tell you what scene I was thinking of as I wrote this but that would be telling. Let me know what scene it conjures up for you by posting comments.
Yes, you heard me right. It is mid-August and the height of the British ’summer’; I’m already thinking about Christmas. I’ve been preparing a suite of festive tracks with the intent of licensing them out as production music. The suite comes complete with a number of variations on a theme (lyrical, choral, jingle and vamp) and are being prepared to allow licensees to cut and loop segments and/or use complete tracks for their purposes. Here’s a short snippet from the suite.
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I’ll be producing fully mastered production versions of this suite and will be ready for licensing shortly. Music Editors, please feel free to contact me if you are interested in this suite but have further specific requirements.
I really love Vimeo. Not only are they super-cool but I really believe the best new (and established) filmmakers, animators, directors and creatives are hanging out there. To top this all off (as if it couldn’t get any cooler), you can also have a motion piece as your profile avatar. He’s my quick avatar, set to the Dorian mode theme I posted previously.
If you’re on Vimeo, contact me up. It’d be good to meet you all.