New Track, Christmas Quartets, HTML fun
I posted a new track that I wrote as a possible replacement for a temp track that needed to be replaced in a one minute film. Another composer beat me to the deadline (at least, that what I believe happened) so the director didn't use my track. It sort of works as a one minute piano concerto even though some of the pauses carefully timed into the track have no visuals to make sense of them.
Three new Christmas carol arrangements for string quartet have also "appeared" in the last week and are available for purchase (I email pdfs). I sent them to musicnotes.com to see if they are interested. I should create recordings of them for demos, but I don't feel like working on that right now. Hopefully the first page of the full score available as a tif will be enough for a taste of each piece.
I dipped into HTML and JavaScript for the first time in many, many months. I saw a very nicely set up site owned by David Johns, a composer for games that has a nice sense of color and especially timing. I was impressed and inspired to improve my own work. And to add a media player to my film music page so that visitors could hear more than one piece playing over and over in the background. The page now has a custom made "skin" with four simple controls to use to navigate a short playlist. Fun. Thanks, David!
A NeverWinter modder contacted me to write for his game modules, but he must be busy because he didn't return my last email. I think this is common in young programmers-- lots of time spent writing code and playtesting, and less energy for putting together a package of images, movies, etc. for composers and others who need to see their work.
In other news, I'm working on "The Lord of the Rings Symphony" by Howard Shore with the GR Symphony Chorus. I knew there would be lots of screaming of scales and endless held chord clusters, but I didn't realize from the recordings (which I know too well) how artless the writing is. The effect works in the context of the movies, but other composers could have done a better job, I think. HS thinks chords and fingers with a little color thrown in. This lead in this case to lots of superfluity (I'm tempted to pun) and unfinished editing. Ah well, the symphony organization will make lots of money on this one.
Three new Christmas carol arrangements for string quartet have also "appeared" in the last week and are available for purchase (I email pdfs). I sent them to musicnotes.com to see if they are interested. I should create recordings of them for demos, but I don't feel like working on that right now. Hopefully the first page of the full score available as a tif will be enough for a taste of each piece.
I dipped into HTML and JavaScript for the first time in many, many months. I saw a very nicely set up site owned by David Johns, a composer for games that has a nice sense of color and especially timing. I was impressed and inspired to improve my own work. And to add a media player to my film music page so that visitors could hear more than one piece playing over and over in the background. The page now has a custom made "skin" with four simple controls to use to navigate a short playlist. Fun. Thanks, David!
A NeverWinter modder contacted me to write for his game modules, but he must be busy because he didn't return my last email. I think this is common in young programmers-- lots of time spent writing code and playtesting, and less energy for putting together a package of images, movies, etc. for composers and others who need to see their work.
In other news, I'm working on "The Lord of the Rings Symphony" by Howard Shore with the GR Symphony Chorus. I knew there would be lots of screaming of scales and endless held chord clusters, but I didn't realize from the recordings (which I know too well) how artless the writing is. The effect works in the context of the movies, but other composers could have done a better job, I think. HS thinks chords and fingers with a little color thrown in. This lead in this case to lots of superfluity (I'm tempted to pun) and unfinished editing. Ah well, the symphony organization will make lots of money on this one.
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