A selection of the extremely varied types of music I've been asked to write over the years. Hope you like what you hear! Thank you for listening :).

Various Projects

Classical piece with a "Movie Trailer" twist. 

Last year I was asked to arrange Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals: VII. Aquarium for a worldwide release trailer. Very exciting prospect, but it never got used. 

Let me know what you think! Thanks for listening.

The Carnival of the Animals: VII. Aquarium - "Trailer" Arrangement

I had the pleasure and privilege to compose a full score of original music for the documentary "Tapiz", directed by Patricio Salinas. Many thanks to Patricio for the opportunity. 

The doc had it's world premiere at the 20th Urban Mediamakers Festival: https://umff.com/umff-content-creators-2021.html

Fast Pass

A very cool track I got to write for an unreleased trailer. Featuring the incredible vocals of Brina Palencia.

Brina's a genius - you should follow her: 
https://www.instagram.com/brinakins/
https://twitter.com/BrinaPalencia

Fully Human

My friends at Plaid Hat Games asked me to write some music for the main menu of their award winning online card game SUMMONER WARS ONLINE. 

Check it out on the app store and their website here: https://www.plaidhatgames.com/board-games/summoner-wars-online/

Summoner Wars Online - Music

Underscore for the  2016 'Poo-Pourri' spot: "The Best Thing to Happen to Pooping Since Your Butt." 

It was a blast to work on. Several genres and styles spanning the ages, ending with a modern, pleasant, quirky theme. Writing this close to picture is one of my favorite scoring techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd43PHVKq5A

The History of Pooping - Poo-Pourri Ad

Hey Everyone,

After remixing Matthew Koma's song "Hard To Love" back in early 2017, we hit it off and wanted to work on an original right away. Having Matthew be a part of this record was something we only could have dreamed of at the time. He's written some of our favorite records to this day. 'Serious' has been a year and a half in the making and we're so excited that it has finally seen the light of day. This is a very special record to us and we hope you all love it as much as we do!

Love the kids,
Dylan and Kyle

Midnight Kids
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Serious (with Matthew Koma)

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Spacecraft Escape

For big Symphonic Orchestra

Composed and Conducted by Antonio Di Iorio

Music recorded in the Studio X in Seattle, WA, on July 2nd, 2012. Cue composed in Star Wars style as final project for the Master Of Music In Film Composition - Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program.

Spacecraft Escape

Check out the Medium piece that features this playlist!

Resurrections Arp 01

Music (Rescore): Wojciech Kostrzewa (on the occasion of Berlin International Film Scoring Competition 2019)
Directed by: Roman Kälin, Falko Paeper, Florian Wittmann
Original Music by: Stefan Wiedmer

Unfortunately I don't have rights to upload it on YouTube, so if you're interested to see the film with my score here's the Vimeo link:
https://vimeo.com/334297745

"WRAPPED" (IMDB):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3803932/

MY WEBSITE:
https://wojciechkostrzewa.pl

Wrapped

Lieam Destiny

Star Trek Fleet Command - Armadas Are Coming - Trailer: https://www.facebook.com/StarTrekFleetCommand/videos/389750068389209/

I had the pleasure of working with the wonderful people over at Secret Powers in Ft. Worth on this trailer. I think it turned out so awesome. I was in some seriously talented company on this project!

Star Trek Fleet Command - Armadas Are Coming - Trailer Music

Electric Lines for Orchestra, music by Robert Paterson
Duration ca. 9'
Winner of the Lousiville Orchestra Composition Competition
Performances by Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=932
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/electric-lines

PROGRAM NOTES
In past summers I have taken long trips across America from New York to Colorado. Driving along the highways, there are endless fields, infrequently dotted with farms and farm machinery. Contrasting the farmland's somewhat natural splendor, there are thousands of miles of electric lines—ubiquitous and perhaps even unsightly, yet somehow blending in with the scenery.

What I find most dramatic about many of these electric lines—other than their gargantuan size—is the realization that day after day, a dizzying amount of information travels through them and across great distances: billions of pieces of information are packed inside these powerful cables. In Electric Lines, my goal is to take the audience on a sonic roller coaster ride: I want the audience to feel tremendous energy and power and the thrill of instantaneously sending and receiving information at light speed.

Although electric lines inspire this work, there is nothing technically "electrical" about it: there are no synthesizers or electrical instruments used, with the exception of the vibraphone. The electric qualities in many sections are highlighted by tense string trills, long, powerful melodic lines and by giving many of the players energetic, concerto-like parts. I also try to make the melodic lines sound charged and electric by enhancing them with various types of orchestral accents and by pairing different instruments using parallel or almost parallel lines at close intervals.

A few of the sections and transitions in Electric Lines are modeled after the physical characteristics of the cables and power line towers. Many of the musical lines occur in groups of two’s and three’s; some of them dip and swoop like power cables, while others are electric rod straight, but tense and electrified. There are also occasional anvil-accented "power chords" that act as markers to delineate certain sections.

Even though Electric Lines might seem to have industrial underpinnings and allusions to mechanics, I am not trying to align myself with the early twentieth century Italian Futurists: it is more the present than the past that I am thinking of in this work.

Electric Lines (for Orchestra)

Composer, Sound Designer/Mixer/Editor, Trekkie. Thanks for listening :). 

Contact: andrewkmanson@gmail.com.

Star Trek Fleet Command - Armadas Are Coming - Trailer Music

Andrew Manson - Composer

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