midi orchestrations produced with Vienna Instruments

Vienna Orchestrations

The "Pelé: King of Football" mobile soccer game app was released on iOS and Android right before the 2014 Brazil World Cup, and has been downloaded over seven million times. I originally produced the app's high energy samba and bossa nova-flavored score for playback on mobile device speakers. I produced these fully realized remixes for Rio 2016 Olympics-related broadcast licensing and beyond.

"Pelé: King of Football" soundtrack remixed for licensing

Here's a playlist that highlights a range of musical styles that I specialize in: world groove, rock, funk/soul/R&B, jazz, acoustic folk, afrobeat, bossa/samba, orchestral, and electronic hybrids.

Taste the CalZone Sound

Fela Kuti is one of my major influences, and playing guitar in Afrobeat bands for 10 years has left a bit of a mark.

Elements of Afrobeat

Playlist photo is of my guembri (Gnawa bass lute), custom built by Hassan Laarousi at Yellowworkshop.com in Essouaria, Morocco

World Music Grooves and Fusions

70's Oakland funk in the style of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters band / Tower of Power, with an afrobeat intro/bridge section. Ideal for a 70's period film or TV show. Licensed to Berkeley's UCTheatre Renovation Timelapse video: https://vimeo.com/calsowncalzone/uct

East Bay Spank

Slow Dance Goodbye

This cue was written to accompany the title sequence for the Oscar-nominated short form documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner. View the scene with my cue here:  http://vimeo.com/75375082

Synopsis
In 1994, a year after serving two terms as one of the most popular governors in modern Washington State history, Booth Gardner was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.  In 2008, as his health continued to deteriorate, he returned to the political spotlight, this time as the driving force behind a ballot initiative that would legalize one’s choice to die.
 
Oscar®-nominated earlier this year in the category of Best Documentary (Short Subject), THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER chronicles his controversial crusade, looking at both sides of this hotly debated issue.
  
This intimate, thought-provoking documentary visits the former governor at his home near Tacoma and follows him around the state during the campaign.  Admitting, “Not a day goes by that I don’t think about death,” Gardner has a difficult time walking and moving, and his speech is becoming slurred.  But with the help of “Yes-on-I-1000” campaign manager Alex Morgan and political strategist Dia Armenta, he mounts a statewide campaign to generate the 225,000 signatures necessary to get the initiative on the November ballot, ultimately obtaining 320,000.
 
THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER was directed by Daniel Junge; produced by Henry Ansbacher and Davis Coombe; edited by Davis Coombe; original music by Gunnard Doboze; co-produced by Andy Schocken; camera, Davis Coombe; additional camera, Daniel Junge and Andy Schocken.

http://www.thelastcampaign.org
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-last-campaign-of-governor-booth-gardner

Bleak, desolate film cue w piano, strings, low timpani

A haunting, dissonant, dastardly twisted cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me". Dedicated to all the stalkers, jilted exes, and desperate incels prowling around these days.
male vocal pipe organ distorted guitar creepy menacing obsessed stalker powerful dark brooding desperate prog tense dissonant ironic cover CONTACTS Master: calreichenbach@gmail.com  Pub: pstrand@mandellmenkes.com (Self Taut Music)

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I Want You To Want Me (Cheap Trick Cover)

Dark, dirty atmospheric film cues that swell into Fela-style lamentation grooves. Written for The Hustler, a short film shot in Freetown, Sierra Leone by The Genuis of Marian director Banker White/WeOwnTV: https://vimeo.com/calsowncalzone/thehustler

The Hustler: Afrobeat film score edit v3a

Here's a tongue in cheek parody of an bombastic orchestral TV theme opening for a World Cup match or BBC newscast. From a GFOP composer to my favorite soccer spokesmodels, Men In Blazers. 

Men In Blazers Anthem: Orchestral Mix v1s

Lyrics:
Men In Bla - zers (bald men)
Ram - bl - ing  English
Men In Blazers (bald men)
From the crap part of town

It's Men In Bla - zers
Sub op - ti - mal   ramb - lings
Here come Men in Bla - zers
Some times they talk foot - ball

Men In Blazers Anthem: Orch&Vocal Mix

Percussive Abandon

Latin / Indian Fusion upbeat theme 1

Latin / Indian Fusion somber theme 2

Here's a vintage 1960's style arrangement of Lalo Schifrin's "Mission: Impossible" theme using Vienna Symphonic Cube brass, winds, and percussion, and Trillian upright bass.

"Mission: Impossible"  Theme

a synthestrated excerpt from Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, 3rd movement, using Vienna instruments

Rachmaninoff 2nd excerpt

Excerpted finale from Host's "Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity" using Vienna Instruments

Holst's "Jupiter" Finale _v1w

a midi orchestration of Alan Silvestri's rollicking "Back to the Future" theme, using Vienna instruments

Back to the Future theme excerpt

Here's a synthestration of John Williams' stirring "Bridge to the Past" cue from Harry Potter III, using Vienna Instruments and VIPro humanization.

Bridge to the Past

vocal and ukulele sketch

added lowfi production vibe, basic drums, toothbrushing percussion

CalR_HelloFriendsSong_v2a

This remix grew out of the Main Menu theme from the "Pelé: King of Football" app, a rousing hymn to the gods of Brazilian futbol. This piece envisions the energy and excitement of a marching band playing from the pitch of Rio's Maracana stadium to a capacity crowd at the 2014 World Cup. A samba bateria and apito whistle get the party rolling. Then a brass fanfare amps up the crowd, which erupts into an anthemic bossa nova style terrace chant. Viva the beautiful game!

Maracanã Samba Anthem (Stadium Crowd Roar Mix)

This uptempo samba/house/electronic groove gets its CHIC on with funky horns, bouncy electric bass, and percolating Brazillian percussion, including a frenetic berimbau feature. 

Rio Runway Strut

"Junior" level theme from "Pelé: King of Football" app, remixed for broadcast. Vintage bossa nova jazz nod to Sergio Mendes' "Mas Que Nada" featuring funky piano, breezy flutes, Brazilian percussion, and nylon string guitar.

Bossa Nada

"National" level theme from "Pelé: King of Football" app, remixed for broadcast. This high energy, aggressive funk/hip hop groove faces off with cocky attitude, spiked with Brazilian berimbau and vintage, turntable-spun horn section stabs. Filthy funk bass breaks away in a big beat/Block Rockin’ bridge, and plays dirty with a tripped-out samba bateria breakdown.

Conversa Fiada (Talkin' Trash)

This is a studio remix of the Main Menu theme from the Pelé app, a rousing hymn to the gods of Brazilian futbol. The sadium crowd sounds and huge crowd vocal from the video game mix have been removed, here the ensemble performs in an intimate space with less reverb.

Maracanã Samba Anthem (Studio Mix)

A warm, bright, and playful orchestral track with swelling, layered pulses influenced by modern classical minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Also influenced by Chevy Chase’s “na na na na...” putting sound effects from Caddyshack (thank you very little)

For pitched percussion (marimba, xylophone, piano), low woodwinds, and upright jazz bass.

Wave Play

A fun afro-latin loop with toy piano and fretless bass, intended for a kids puzzle game

Toy Montunito

A tv quiz show style "time to think" cue for a kids puzzle game

Kids' Quiz Countdown

Game loop driven by a soukous style guitar line, produced to accompany a dancing chicken doing the moonwalk

Soukous Moonwaddle

Disco Escape

Nigerian Royal Scam is a vintage, up tempo afrobeat instrumental in the style of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band. I reworked the drums and added horns in honor of Tony Allen, Fela's pioneering drummer on the anniversary of his death. Attempting to emulate his slinky, flowing groove and trademark tumbling-down-the-stairs drum fills felt like time well spent in his presence. Cheers to the rhythmic architect of afrobeat, thanks for the inspiration.

Arrangement features a heavy horn section, deep layers of hand percussion, funky interlocking guitars, vintage psychedelic keys

RIYL Fela Kuti, Budos Band, Antibalas, James Brown, Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade, Mulatu Astatke, Ebo Taylor, Bob Marley, Miles Davis

Nigerian Royal Scam

The Dung Beetle Scuttle

Bright, buoyant baroque cue for harpsichord and string ensemble, produced with Vienna Instruments and MIR/Synchron Stage reverb

Bespoke Baroque

High energy funk/hip hop/world groove with a taunting melodic hook. Originally produced for Pele: Soccer Legend, a mobile soccer game app featuring the Brazilian soccer star. Impact Mix is pared down from original soundtrack version for sync in other media. Features Brazilian percussion and samba bateria in the breakdown.

Pele Project

Talkin' Trash (Impact Mix)

THUS ROCKED ZARATHUSTRA: This massive, over-the-top hard rock cover of Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (the iconic opening theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) blasts off with soaring, melodramatic guitar harmonies reminiscent of Queen's Brian May. A triumphant chug riff throttles the iconic fanfare up into the orbit of metal, prog, and grunge worlds once explored by Metallica, Rush, Soundgarden, and beyond... 

Intended for sync placement in comedies, high energy sports, sci-fi, space exploration-related media/ads/trailers. The original Strauss work became became PD nearly worldwide in Jan 2020 including US, Canada, and Mexico.

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Thus Rocked Zarathustra

Upbeat, bouncy rock instrumental that began as a comedy podcast theme song for SF comedian Millie Brooks' "Me Myself and Millie".

70’s classic rock instrumental replete with richly layered rhythm guitars, melodic guitar solo, giddy hand claps, and a cowbell break. Ideal for a sunny top-down driving montage, a rom com romp about town, or ironic swan song cue for an innocent, unsuspecting slasher film victim. 

Available for one stop licensing.

Away We Go

70's style detective show theme song written for Cartoon Network's "Stroker and Hoop". Inspired by Starsky & Hutch theme. Performed by SOCKET: www.socketband.com

Coppin' A Feel

Here's a high speed car chase groove with Middle Eastern percussion and shred guitar, which crashes into a 5/4 metal section with melismatic female vocal. 

CalZone on electric guitar and bass.

Middle Eastern Car Chase

Thus Rocked Zarathustra :30

Thus Rocked Zarathustra :15a

Thus Rocked Zarathustra :15b

The first half is a study in using speed fades, and editing, processing, and reharmonizing a vocal track using Logic's Flex mode, plus Time and Pitch Machine. Much of the percussion sounds and the distorted guitar like effects were created by time expanding and re-amping the sound of the vocalist clearing her throat at the beginning of the take. The second half explores manipulating segments of the vocal track with Logic's ESX24 sampler, and triggering the ES2 synth from a sidechain, all over an afrobeat groove in 7/8 time.

Desert Nightmare / Afrobeat Fever Dream

Cal Reichenbach produces eclectic music for film, TV, and video games. An accomplished guitarist and composer, Cal specializes in emotionally dynamic, rhythmically compelling scores that enhance visual action and propel narrative flow. His work spans a broad range of genres including rock, funk, jazz, afrobeat, Brazilian, orchestral, electronic, and world groove. Cal plays an array of guitar styles as well as bass, mandolin, ukulele, and guembri (Morroccan/Gnawa bass lute) in his productions.

Areas of scoring expertise include show open themes, emulations of any given reference track/musical genre/era, and the integration of ethnic music styles from any desired corner of the world. Tongue-in-cheek musical satire is another CalZone specialty: ironic cover arrangements, over-the-top genre parodies, and other feats of comedic scoring--from subtly sardonic to outrageously hyperbolic--are served with extra relish. 

Cal has worked with Subaru Asia, Bully Entertainment/Cosi Games (for Pelé: Soccer Legend, >7mm downloads), Pilot (for FX, AMC, CMT), Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, Men In Blazers (VICE Sports), Organic, Brass Ideas, Cibo, Evolve Media, Disher Sound (for PlayStation Magazine/Gran Turismo 4), and director Banker White/WeOwnTV.

After a decade of touring, recording with, and producing an array of rock, funk, and jazz bands including the award winning Bay Area afrobeat ensembles ALBINO! and Aphrodesia, Cal earned an MFA in music production for visual media at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

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