Original music for the Peroni Nastro Azzurro campaign and trailers for the short film 'Senza Tempo', directed by Gabriele Muccino. Recorded using a string quintet and clarinetist at Angel Studios, London.

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Available to download from itunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ep2-ep/1404009953

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Peroni Nastro Azzurro (Commercial Sampler)

This is DESTINY'S DOOR REPRISE, my submission to Hans Zimmer's "Bleeding Fingers Contest".
I used the solo voice stem in the second half and the last line of the trumpet stem.
Everything else I wrote and played myself (WAV48/24).
Good luck to everybody!
http://www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/686

Destiny's Door Reprise-Bleeding Fingers Contest - Composer, Producer

Man Vs. Machine

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Michael Harris - Moments

Arbor, Ardor, Ardus is an environmental work for trumpet, drumset, piano, and mixed media. It incorporates bioacoustics, geoacoustics, and electromagnetic signal recordings of trees and underground soil. The work expresses the process of how extreme heat and drought lead to forest fires and deforestation. The three words of the title (“Arbor, Ardor, Ardus”) each comprise a section, and ultimately guide the form of the piece. Below is an overview of the piece’s form and structure.

Section A, “Arbor”
(tree, alcove, shelter)
A sonic manifestation of trees, primarily using bioacoustic/geoacoustic recordings of trees and underground soil. The acoustic instruments (trumpet, percussion, and piano) each imitate the sounds of these trees in their own unique way, using various timbral and extended techniques.

Section B, “Ardor”
(rapid, fiery, extreme heat)
A manifestation of rapid, fiery change. It is meant to convey a boiling, breaking-point force of extremely dry and deadly heat that ultimately leads into the final section. Distorted electromagnetic sounds are introduced, along with more dissonant instrumental techniques.

Section C, “Ardus”
(dry, barren, hollow)

Derived from the Latin "aridus," representing the dry, empty aftermath of an all-consuming fire. The texture becomes noticeably sparser and oblique), ultimately as a sonic manifestation of an ecological wasteland, devoid of life. The electronics material primarily uses synthesized “tree tones” that convey the image of a leafless tree.

Performed by The Splice Ensemble
Copyright 2023 Dallas J. Herndon, All Rights Reserved.

Arbor, Ardor, Ardus (2023)

So this piece was written probably back in April or so for my wonderfully brilliant high school choir director, Darcy Reese, and her choir production that she pours all her heart and soul into. So she asked me to write a few songs for the production and this was one of my favorites that I wrote for her. 

I don't really recollect how long it took me to write this, probably a week? Maybe less than that? I'm not entirely sure, but the final product introduces a voice-over talking about the preciousness of the world and about us...if memory serves me right. Anyway, it was just extremely beautiful. 

This piece I started using synth pads from the Kontakt library to emulate that ambient vibe found in a lot of Tony Anderson's work. In addition to that I love the use of the 8dio 1928 Legacy Steinway grand piano. It just has this exquisite quality to the sound. And then of course I used the cello patch from EWQL Symphonic Gold and the african choirs from Logic Pro X for the choir segment. Anyway, enjoy.

D R E A M I N G

A soft and ambient piano-based piece which I have put together over a period of time. 

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Michael Harris - Departure

A calm piano piece which I have written and recorded over a short period of time.

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Solitude

Michael Harris - Solitude

So  recently posted up on my facebook the song from the Dead Island trailer. Anyway, so the original song by Giles Lamb is already beautiful enough, so I decided to take the chance to make it a lil' more uplifting and um.......I dunno what other word could describe it....just happier. Anyway, the trailer itself is beautiful. So this piece took me only last night and today. I wanted to stick to the original beginning but then afterwards take it into a J Scott Rakozy kind of direction. Thus it was super awesome and I knew this was exactly how I wanted the piece to go with the triumphant horns, the banging of the drums, the sense of being sent free, liberated and what not. So another influence with this piece was actually from Danny Elfman's work off "Real Steel" the very ending after the major box fight, so the use of the drums with orchestration was what made it into this piece. So using EWQL Symphonic Gold and Storm Drum 2 this is what you can create. The piano was the only thing from the Logic Pro library and also the guitar. So enjoy the piece, I'll get it up on facebook, on soundcloud and a video of it on youtube. So enjoy, comment and do whatever else!

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V I D E O G A M E S || Dead Island

Original soundtrack from the video game INSIDE by Playdead

Shockwave - Martin Stig Andersen

Composer  I  Writer  I  Musician

Education:  
University of Utah, PhD in music theory/composition (2019-2023)
                    East Carolina University, M.M in music theory/composition (2016-18)
                    Newberry College, B.M., clarinet performance/theory, jazz studies minor (2012-16)

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Arbor, Ardor, Ardus (2023)

Dallas J. Herndon

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