This year (2022) I'm going to let a musical write itself through FAWM. This is the first number.

Dear David

A demo theme/credits idea for a film about The Slender Man or other creepy men lurking in shadows and such.  Generally a creepy guy horror movie motif idea.

Slender Man - Demo (idea)

A hip hop score track or backing track with trap and dub-step and drill beat roots

Hip-Hop Score Track

This is the opening test sequence for a SW fan film that ultimately was not made.

New Jedi Theme

Another academic piece, a deleted scene where Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson kiss a first time... deleted from the final film. This score is the assignment in class.

Sense and Sensibility_Deleted scene

An academic piece for scoring a sad scene. This is a deleted scene in which Akeelah remembers her father and the experience of him passing.

Deleted 'sad' scene from "Akeelah and the Bee"

Yet another piece for a class... This scene is a deleted scene from the "Robin Hood" film starring Russel Crowe and Cate Blanchett (2010).

The scene is where Marion and her father are waxing poetically about his life and death and whether Marion's love Robert is dead.

Robert is Dead, Marion

Class piece for a scary/suspense scene deleted from House of Usher.

Reading a Note

A Film SCore track with a Hip-Hop pedigree

Daniel Clingman - Hip hop_Drill_Score

A speed composed piano solo, composed in less than 90 minutes.

A Walk, Perhaps More

A loose look at coping with the year(s) 2020 and 2021.

You Say

Movement 1, Presto from the the First Cello Concerto by Daniel Clingman (me)

Cello Concerto in Bb - Mov1 - Presto

Cello Concerto in Bb - Mvt 2 - Adagio

The final movement of my first cello concerto... (Almost done, this is unfinished)

Cello Concerto in Bb - Mvt 3 - Allegro (unfinished)

Drawing from my my first artistic life, gracing the stages as a ballet dancer. I excelled at storytelling through movement lept into my second artistic life as an actor, bringing the story of life through emotions and connections to the words and others speaking those words on stage. Exiting the stage, I spent my third artistic life creating the worlds for stories being told as a scenic designer, lighting designer, and audio designer. 

I now hold all of these lives in concert and focus on creating stories through the all senses. 

Mostly a composer and songwriter I strive to support storytelling through word and movement by providing the soundtrack to the experience. I call on what is emotionally happening in the lyrics, scene, or idea for the dance and place myself inside it to bring forth the music and soundscape necessary to glue it all together. My lives are fully inside all I write and create.  

I draw on my deep involvement of story through movement, song, dance, words, sounds, and lights, and bring the emotion, depth, environment to the concert of all senses and guide the listener or viewers journey through the stories that they cultivate in their own mind - whether it is in picture or live - in front of them or not. I treat creating a soundscape as creating a life on its own.

Dan Clingman | Composer

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