Soundtrack to the short film "The Philosophy of the Finger and the Sun," directed by Gino Rory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6CQt6xCHIg

The Philosophy of the Finger and the Sun Score

Written for Chad Sell, and premiered in October 2016 in Lakeland, Florida. 

Thunder captures both the turbulence, and intense beauty of a storm. After a suspenseful calm, the atmospheric forces are shown in the form of powerful cluster chords and driving rhythms. Dancing wind and rain find themselves overshadowed by the mighty forces of the storm, which confront and change everything in its path.

"Your voice it thunders
The ground is shaking
The mighty mountains now are trembling
Creation sees You
And starts composing
The fields and trees they start rejoicing."

- Gungor, "The Earth is Yours"

Cello: Chad Sell
Piano: Robin McLaughlin

Photo by Lane Pearman usable by Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireboatks/18970323232

Thunder

This Hour for Whistler and Piano. Jacob Warren, whistler and Michaela Kelly, piano. Recorded December 18, 2017. 

Score available: https://payhip.com/b/z29k

This Hour

Renunciation

Elise Seifert is a film and classical composer.  She attended the Hollywood Music Workshop in Baden, Austria where she studied with Conrad Pope and Joe Kraemer. Elise Seifert was the Head Officer of the Society of Composers, Inc. Student Chapter at UNC-Greensboro and the head organizer of the 2017 SCI Region IV Student Composers Conference. She was Artist in Residence with the Lloyd International Honors College at UNC-Greensboro for 2015-2016 and attended the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Workshop Summer 2015. Elise entered the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music in 2012, majoring in Music Composition with a minor in French. She has since studied with Hummie Mann, Mark Engebretson, Alejandro Rutty and Pascale Jakubowski. While at UNC-Greensboro she has had many opportunities to have pieces performed by internationally known groups such as the Daedalus Quartet and the Oasis Saxophone Quartet, and has been able to collaborate with student film makers to create original film scores.

Elise Seifert was born in 1994 and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. She started taking piano lessons at age 10 and continued playing flute, bassoon and percussion in middle and high school.  In high school she became very involved in the music department, joining Concert, Marching and Jazz bands, theatre pit ensembles and the Wilmington Youth Symphony Orchestra.  At her second high school, NC School of Science and Math, Elise worked as an assistant to the Director of Bands and became leader of the Pep Band. She was the principal bassoonist in the North Carolina All-State Orchestra and performed in the Eastern Regional Orchestra twice. 

When she is not tethered to her headphones Elise enjoys playing with her cats and hiking sections of the Appalachian trail.  She can be contacted at eliseseifertmusic@gmail.com

Renunciation

Elise Seifert

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