Ben Botkin

An epic cinematic track featuring Cello solos by my lovely wife Audri. :)

Dauntless

This is a medley of different moments from the soundtrack for HSLDA's recent film on the Common Core standards, "Building the Machine." The film can be viewed in it's entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjxBClx01jc

Building the Machine Medley

A Quick Tribute to Moshimoss - Marcus Warner - Textural Violin

Realms Beyond

Everlasting Light (feat. Bianca Ban)

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Realm Of Enchantments - Oleta Haffner - Moonlight Celeste

Under Silver Light - Tom Bellingham - Moonlight Celeste

Keyed Magic - Benjamin Squires - Moonlight Celeste

Liberation - Blakus

If all the trees in all the woods were men; 
And each and every blade of grass a pen; 
If every leaf on every shrub and tree 
Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea 
Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes 
Had nothing else to do but act as scribes, 
And for ten thousand ages, day and night, 
The human race should write, and write, and write, 
Till all the pens and paper were used up, 
And the huge inkstand was an empty cup, 
Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink 
Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink.

Cacoethes Scribendi

This song is dedicated to Tyler Trent. His incredible faith and courage greatly impacted my life and inspired countless people around the world. #tylerstrong

Home - Dedicated to Tyler Trent

This track prominently features Legion Series 33 Drummers for all percussion, which contains over 100.000 percussion samples divided over 88 different percussion instruments.  The track is also heavily featuring our 66 Trombone Ensemble and samples from our upcoming Bible of Salsa release, which is the most extensive recordings ever done of high-end Salsa ensemble and solo players.

Score notes:

The track is inspired by Alan Silvestri's Predator 2 score, which contains gorgeous percussion ensembles w/ Alex Acuna and overall one of my favorite scores of all time. 

Enjoy!

Best, Troels

8Dio Legion Series 33 Drummers: "Batucada" By Troels Folmann

Preview clips from Benjamin Botkin's album SAGA, which is available for sale as an mp3 download at www.benbotkin.com

"Sail with buccaneers and descend into dragons’ lairs, traverse Egyptian deserts and Amazonian jungles, be moved to tears and stirred to action. From composer Benjamin Botkin comes SAGA, a new album of musical pieces in the rich tradition of orchestral cinematic music. Enjoy a musical tapestry that offers a diversity of flavors, from epic chorales and ethnic atmospheres to soaring string melodies and symphonic majesty."

Journey (CLIP)

This piece is, essentially, a tone poem loosely inspired by the events at the end of J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit", regarding the awakening, desolation, and fall of the dragon. Style is symphonic/filmscore. This track serves as the finale to my new album "Saga" and is available for sale at my website: http://benbotkin.com/store.

Saga

Legend of the Dragon

Track Description: In which I test the unfamiliar waters of the motivational corporate genre. Instrumentation includes an assortment of various and sundry claps, strums, bells, and strings, and other upbeat miscellanea. 

Movin' up the Ladder

To learn how I create music like this on a computer, consider checking out my online course about How to Compose with MIDI and Virtual Instruments: https://store.fortecomposeracademy.com/how-to-compose-with-midi-and-virtual-instruments

Benjamin Botkin began composing music for film and visual media projects in 2005.  Since then, Benjamin has composed the music for multiple feature, documentary, short, and promotional films, written demos for leading sample developers, lectured about film scoring at film festivals, and is creator and head instructor at Forte Composer Academy,  a site dedicated to helping composers succeed in the new music industry. 

Benjamin lives in the greater Nashville area with his beautiful wife Audri and three sons: Ethan, Elliot, and Philip.

Journey (CLIP)

Benjamin Botkin

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