2012 Originals

Show Reel

classic

Meditation

Studying

Filmscores, soundtracks (esp. OSTs), and other film/movie-related music

Soundtracks & Filmscores

Score

Film scores - soundtracks

Cheerful & Chill Mix [Epic Compilation: Steampunk, Orchestral, etc.]

May I have this dance?

music by Chris Harris

©2013 All rights reserved 
www.facebook.com/chrisharris.composer

La Danse Finale

Part of Luna Park's Light Show in Sydney. Hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/album/07QxfyuHfQ0zXyHIaACWAC?si=ZDpc9l7jQu6kh5aVYeFeOw

Overture to Olympus

It's time to reboot

music by Chris Harris

©2014 All rights reserved 
www.facebook.com/chrisharris.composer

Reset the System

I wanted to see how many major chords I could fit into a track that starts in a minor key.

Aevitas

Cognition

Another original piece this time. I just finished a massive project today so took some time out to practice composing. Post-lullaby-adventures in your sleep, battling dream goblins and saving imaginary princesses and all that jazz. It quite heavily feature's Orange Tree Sample's new Evolution Steel String library which I can definitely recommend to anyone needing acoustic goodness.

Used:
FL Studio 9, Kontakt 4 library, Spiritoso, Cinesamples CineOrch, Orange Tree Samples Steel Strings, Spitfire Percussion &amp; British Woodwinds, VOXOs, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Alicia's Keys.


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Adventures in your sleep

This is a straight remake of a piece from the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood soundtrack by Akira Senju. I wanted to get a close to the original piece as possible using samples only. I remade this from scratch by ear so some notes may be wrong or slightly different - there also may be minor changes due to sample limitations. The string runs also sound awful. If anyone can recommend a decent string run library (other than OSR) or a technique with multisamples I'd appreciate it :)

The Youtube video shows FL Studio playing back the piece for anyone who's interested - the timing is a little off but it's too late to fix that and I want to be done with this piece. 

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4.2, Project Sam True Strike, Symphobia & Symphobia 2, Spitfire Percussion, Harp, Great British Brass, British Woodwinds, Monster Bones, Chamber Strings and Symphonic Strings, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Orchestral String Runs, VSL Orchestral Cube Pro & Epic Horns, Cinesamples CineOrch & Hollywoodwinds and a few other private libraries here and there.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Philosophorum Omega Remake

music by Chris Harris

©2014 All rights reserved 
www.facebook.com/chrisharris.composer

Arachnos

Summer In Love

Made this song for my grandfather who recently passed away.



Archangel

Revolutions

Enya - Only time

A short suspens/ambient orchestral track for a Political Documentary.


Victoire de la Gauche

Enya - Caribbean Blue

An orchestration of the Rick Dangerous theme from the classic game. This isn't the first time I've tried this piece but I wanted to approach it with all my latest libraries and I had an hour or so to kill. It was done pretty quickly as I'm quite familiar with the piece of music. This'll probably be the last time I try this piece, though I'm sure I'll give its sequel a go at some point.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Cinesamples CineBrass, VOXOS, HollyWoodwinds & CineSnare, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Orchestral String Runs, Project SAM Symphobia, Symphobia 2 & True Strike, Spitfire Symphobia Strings, British Woodwinds, Harp & Percussion, Private string library.

Rick Dangerous Reorchestrated

An orchestrated version of the Final Zone from the original Sonic the Hedgehog. I haven't released a sonic remix in a while and wanted to try one this morning. I tried to experiment a little so it's not amazingly close to the original. I also composed it from ear so there may be duff notes here and there.

Used:
FL Studio 10, Kontakt 4, Spitfire Albion, Harp, Percussion & Symphonic Strings, Cinesamples CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds, CineSnare & VOXOs, Tonehammer Requiem & Emotional Piano, Audiobro LA Scoring Strings, Orchestral String Runs, Dummyworld Shhh, Project SAM Symphobia II

Sonic The Hedgehog - Final Zone Orchestra

Ennio Morricone's Chi Mai (meaning Who Ever in Italian, although it looks Asian to me :)

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHPlqwxZA8

He composed this in 1971 for an Italian movie called Maddalena, and reused it in 1981 for the beautiful final scene of the French movie Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo who insisted on using this music. It was also reused in some other movies and TV series and is famous in French pop culture thanks to a memorable dog food TV ad for Royal Canin, where the music is used while a dog is running in slow motion.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a Bösendorfer sampled grand piano with some echo, and strings I control with an expression pedal, well, try to control.

Video

Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai (Le professionnel) [piano + fx]

Trying to replicate Vangelis' Memories Of Green from the Blade Runner soundtrack.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqn6AuCiA_s

Vangelis composed (improvised?) Memories Of Green in 1980 for his album See You Later, but it's not as famous as the Blade Runner soundtrack in which the track was included too.

The instrument is a Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Bösendorfer piano with a flanger effect, some synthesizers controlled with an expression pedal, and a generous amount of reverb.

Vangelis - Memories Of Green (Blade Runner)

Written in honour of John Williams' 80th birthday, thank you for all the wonderful music!

music by Chris Harris

©2012 All rights reserved

Amazing Journey

Melody made in MadTracker 2, mixed in Magix MX.

Hallberg - The King's Last Hope

Hallberg - Dangerous Game

Hallberg - Invasion

Hallberg - What do I want?

"Some" similarities to "What do I want?"
http://soundcloud.com/booback/booback-what-do-i-want


Hallberg - Return of the banished angel

A brief homage to Tron!

music by Chris Harris

©2012 All rights reserved

Used: Absynth, EWQL Symphonic Choirs

Portal to CyberCity

This is Piano in an Empty Room from Vangelis' Blade Runner Trilogy 25th Anniversary album released in 2007.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0ZMA7_88M

Photo (cropped) by Kay Arne Jensen - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=653845857961186

Vangelis plays it on an acoustic piano with beautiful ambient room noise. I tried to replicate the feeling by boosting the pedal noise on my synth, and I added some pads that get pretty dark and intense towards the end.

The instrument is a Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Steinway grand piano and virtual analog synthesizers controlled with an expression pedal, and a generous amount of reverb.

Vangelis - Piano in an Empty Room (Blade Runner)

Music From and Inspired by the The Hit Fanfic

2. Rescue Stefano - Hanz Zimmer

Dark Light Soundtrack 2

Dark Light Soundtrack 5

Who knows what secrets lie in The Unconstrained Soul...

music by Chris Harris

©2012 All rights reserved

Used: Spitfire Albion, EWQLSO, Adagio Violins, Spitfire Orchestral Grand Piano, Cineharp, Embertone Jubal Flute, Embertone Chapman Trumpet

The Unconstrained Soul

Abraham's Theme composed by Vangelis for the legendary Chariots of Fire soundtrack in 1981.

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNfLGn9xZho

The instrument is Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Rhodes Mark I electric piano set to low and a pulse wave virtual-analog waveform oscillator.

Vangelis - Abraham's Theme (Chariots of Fire)

Enya & Yanni  - For The Love Of A Princess

A tribute to the wonderful music of Danny Elfman - Happy Halloween!

Used: Spitfire Albion, Loegria, Percussion, Adagio Violins, EWQLSO

Welcome to Halloween Town

My album including some of my work. Soundtrack music. Midi Mockups. Orchestrations and Harmonies. - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/soundtrack-music-orchestrations/id444706668

13 Louie

Far out In the depths of space lies the place where stars are born... the Starfield.

music by Chris Harris

©2012 All rights reserved

Used: Spitfire Albion, Loegria, Percussion, Adagio Violins, pocketBlakus solo cello, CineBrass, Requiem Pro

Starfield

Guardian

A Christmas Journey

Carter Burwell - Bella Reborn

Dawn of a New Age

Love Death Birth - Carter Burwell

Reach for the Stars

From 'The Fountain' OST featuring Kronos Quartet & Mogwai

Death Is The Road To Awe

The Mother of Invention

Kingdom of Valour

I am a London-based composer of original cinematic music for film and media.

Tracks available to buy on iTunes, BandCamp and Flattr donations gratefully received!

The Unconstrained Soul

Chris Harris - Composer