Demring i skuggeheimen

Album Project: Cinematic SteamPunk
FUN HOUSE Teaser
Extra cool new music project from ‘Cellist Margaret Maria and Los Angeles film composer, John Massari. 
©2015 Margaret Maria and John Massari

The music and all the possibilities it conjures in the mind is exciting to explore!

'Cello: Margaret Tobolowska
Keyboards, Mallets & Percussion (the band): John Massari

Steampunk is a sub genre of science fiction and fantasy literature, art and music that commonly features some aspect of steam-powered machinery, especially in a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization during the 19th century.

@margaret-tobolowska
@johnmassari
www.enchanten.com/

CINEMATIC STEAMPUNK: FUN HOUSE (teaser)

composition by Kurt Otto  www. popeye-x.com 1994
notation editing and audio engineering- Steve Wisnoski

Jazz Run

2 Hidden Klownship

Piece for Woodwind Quintet based on familiar nursery rhymes.

PRAM JAM

SET SAIL!

BANSHEE:  John Massari & Margaret Maria ©2015 ASCAP

The latest high impact track from Cinematic Steampunk's creative masterminds, Margaret Maria and John Massari.

'Cello: Margaret Maria

Mad Scientist, Drums, Bass, Piano, Guitars, Percussion and Producer: John Massari

The Banshee. The spirits of women who roam the woods the night someone is to die. The moaning of the Banshee can token certain death when ever it is heard in the silence of the night. The Banshee appeared at Clontarf, warning King Brian he would meet his death in the great battle to come. - Ray Bradbury

Clontarf (Irish: Cluain Tarbh, meaning "meadow of the bull") is a coastal suburb on the north side of Dublin, in Ireland. It is most famous for the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, defeated the Vikings of Dublin and their allies, the Irish of Leinster. This battle, which extended over a wide area, is seen as marking an end to the Irish-Viking Wars.

"Cinematic SteamPunk (CSP) has taken thrash instruments into the realm of real composition, [...]. I suspect it is simply that CSP makes no class distinction between the heavy rock timbres and more conventional acoustic instrumentation. All are treated as virtuosic performer [...]" - David Griffee @david-griffee

Margaret Maria: www.enchanten.com

John Massari: www.imdb.com/name/nm0006188/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Massari

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

BPM 118

BANSHEE Teaser: Cinematic SteamPunk

This is the music I made for a university assignment. The assignment was to create an interactive music system using Wwise. In this playlist I will show some examples of the music, and there will be a video up on how the system works in Wwise soon.

Forest layer

This song long ago vested itself passionately within the ventricles of my heart. Brian Wilson hit many home runs, yet something within the shape and structure of "God Only Knows" is so utterly off the beaten path - it's mystical and profound. I'd even liken it to the most "perfect" of all musical pieces: Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus." 

Is that too far a stretch?

This little solo track of mine from several years ago... I can and will do better and share that with you very soon. Valentine's Day?

One among some of the more atypical approaches I spun around was to play GOK using the figuration from Bach's WTC Prelude #1, which has been, incidentally, used quite famously as a background setting for "Ave Maria" (not to be confused with Schubert's setting). Running Wilson's harmonic structure, voice leading, counterpoint - whatever terminology you prefer - works very nicely in the figuration, and It plays itself, so to speak. Which makes it feel like a gimmick. This true masterpiece of American song deserves better. You dig? 


God Only Knows

Live recording, Mar. 2016.
Earl Leaverton-Bass
Rick Reynolds-snare drum
Steve Wisnoski-Guitar and Vocals

Lala

Steve Wisnoski

Recent comments

Joe Zanetis-Zbluzman

Related tracks