This piece was written using the brass and solo voice stem files from Hans Zimmer's "Destiny's Door." They enter with the last section of the piece. When originally listening to Hans Zimmer's piece, I got to the big brass section at the end and loved it, and all that went on in my mind was imagining what I could put on top of it. I love to layer music and often enjoy adding more and more flourishes and melodies/countermelodies to a particular spot. I do also love when the busyness drops out and you get silence and just a quiet solo voice or instrument. If I was granted a longer piece I would have done much more with the growth to the big moment, and also added areas that were vastly different sounding, but doing so without a visual or imagined context in such a short amount of time would have resulted in the piece being too broken up and jittery I feel, so I decided to go with at least a similar feel throughout.

Destiny's Door Bleeding Fingers Contest

It Is Time For Tea

My first piece with my new sound library, and my first piece written in Pro Tools rather than writing the notation in Finale :D

We're Running Out Of Time

Watch for Me Over the Horizon

For one of my classes we all wrote pieces and then had the orchestra or band at my college sight read them. This is my piece, since it was being sight read, and they were sight reading about 14 other pieces that day it is not perfect. I did work with the recording to increase the starting tempo some, get rid of the two spots that they stopped and restarted, did some equalizing, and added reverb because we were just in a rehearsal hall that sounded super dry. It was all recording by one mic, so I could not go into super detail with each instrument or section, but overall I think it turned out pretty well.

Unto Distant Shores

I have always loved film scores, and I attempt to create music that sounds like it could be from a film, and this piece is no different. The sounds are just Finale sounds and what Garritan sounds came with Finale.

Elliott Pinkerton