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Will you RISE to the challenge (Boston Crusaders)

(0:00) Early morning.  Some images of a quiet neighborhood. Cut to the house.  Dissolve inside the house...
(0:18) A middle age woman walks inside the living room of her house.  She’s carrying a cup of coffee and her cell phone.  She just woke up and yet she’s still not completely awake.
(0:36) As she walks near the table where she's going to have her breakfast, she realizes that there's a note on top of the chair where she's about to sit.
(0:50)  She sits, grabs the note and begins to read it.
(1:00)  Her expression becomes "dark" and little by little she begins to cry, although it's a repressed crying.
(1:22)  Suddenly, her twelve-year old daughter walks in and the woman tries to dissimulate her sorrow and make as if nothing happens.
Her cell phone rings (1:30) MX OUT.

The Morning Note

Watch this scene at https://vimeo.com/84095984

Re-scoring of a scene from Gran Hotel
Instrumentation:  1/1/2/1 - 3/0/0/0 - strings (8.6.4.4.2)
Conducted by Peter Pejtsik
Recorded by the Budapest Art Orchestra, East Connection Music Recording Corporation
December 16, 2013

The Kiss

"New York, 1983. Violet is an emerging Brooklyn-born artist of French descent to whom success has arrived in her thirties. Her father André was a flight navigator who spent much of his early years in search of adventure, until he finally settled after WWII and married Marguerite, a captivating yet melancholic young widow who didn’t like to talk about her past. Violet still remembers when, as a child, her mother used to tell her stories about her youth in central France. She never understood why those stories would always cut off abruptly, with tears in mom´s eyes… then she would resume talking about marrying papa and emigrating to the US. On a cold afternoon in February, Violet is exhibiting her latest works at Cesario’s, the most important art gallery in Manhattan. All people of the arts and letters are there for the opening. But Violet feels strangely attracted to Sebastian, a bit older man with a curious patch of white hair who introduces himself as a struggling writer. He was adopted by a wealthy family of the Upper East Side, the Orsinos, after he arrived in America in 1945 aboard a ship full of French orphans. As days go by, Violet and Sebastian fall deeply in love with each other, but noone is taking the plunge. One day, Violet takes Sebastian to her parents’ home. There, an unbelievable fact is about to be revealed in front of a petrified Marguerite. Violet and Sebastian´s love is impossible…"

A love that can never be...

Watch this scene at https://vimeo.com/90479042

Re-scoring of a scene from Home Delivery
Instrumentation: string orchestra (8.6.4.4.2)
Conducted by Peter Pejtsik
Recorded by the Budapest Art Orchestra, East Connection Music Recording Corporation
March 10, 2014

A Zombie Animation

This is a midi produced one-minute opening titles sequence for a space documentary television series.

In Hubble's Eyes (main titles)

This two-minute work celebrates Boston College, weaving in thematic material from both "For Boston" and "Hail! Alma Mater!", the school's fight song and alma mater, respectively.

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc)/2/2/2 - 3/2/3/1 - timp, perc - hp, pno - strings (10.8.6.6.3)
Composed and Conducted by David Faleris
Mixing and Mastering by Pablo G. Schuller and David Faleris
Recorded at AIR Studios Lyndhurst Hall
May 20, 2014
Recording Engineer: Jake Jackson
Assistant Engineer: Fiona Cruickshank
Orchestra Contractor: Hilary Skewes
Special Thanks to Lucio Godoy, Alfons Conde, Vanessa Garde, Maggie Rodford

On a personal note, it brought great joy to record this just a few days before my 10-year college reunion.  Go Eagles!

'Til the echoes ring again...

Dark (Shan, phase 1)

Game Trailer created at Global Game Jam 2014 (Gandia)

What You See is Who You Are (trailer)

Insert Coin to Play (intro)

Returning Home in Bits (Kontakt design)

Waking Up (Shan, phase 2)

Enlightenment (Shan, Phase 2)

Daily Grind (in-game loop)

MWI Workshop Series (opening)

Ladybug Quest (main menu)

Still There

Makers Suite was produced entirely from recorded audio of the glassmaking process.  It serves as the background music for the Makers Marks collection by Lisa Naas and David Faleris, with the help of several collaborative artists from the disciplines of glass, sound, and engineering.  Makers Marks is a Glass Whispers Project, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

The glassmaking process was captured at the Edinburgh College of Art glass studios with recording help from Marcin Pietruszewski, as well as glass artists Lisa Naas (project leader), Ingrid Phillips, and Laura Reed.

Some sound design elements (also using source audio of the glassmaking process) were developed by Xueran Chen and Alessandro Mastroianni.

www.inconcertwithglass.com