Name: Strange Enchanted Garden by Vincent Fasano
Duration: 2 min 3 s
Description: This was a rescore of a clip from Coraline I did for the NYU Summer Film Workshop. I liked how it turned out. Feels very playful and imaginative.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost everybody around the globe in at least one way. Some, like me, have been struggling with the mental repercussions of isolation and loneliness, while others have been bravely risking their lives on a daily basis to aid those in need or take up other essential duties. The sad truth about the matter is that millions, if not more, will never see the day when our previous idea of ‘normal life’ returns.

This fairly simple orchestral piece, built on motifs of empathy, suffering, and hope, is something that I hope will prove to be a tool. I have always tried to find ways in which music can reach the broadest possible audience, but this was perhaps the first time I did so by using my personal feelings. I dedicate this piece to everyone who is suffering from the pandemic right now, ill or healthy, as well as the millions of lives that have been lost already.

Elegy

This was a rescore of a clip from Coraline I did for the NYU Summer Film Workshop. I liked how it turned out. Feels very playful and imaginative.

Strange Enchanted Garden

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Waltini Remix)

Madeon - Love You Back (Waltini Remix)

For personal reasons, I will not say what this piece is about.

I will, however, say that I had the great pleasure of working with violinist Alyssa Park, cellist Cecilia Tsan, and pianist Robert Thies to bring this composition to life. I'm indebted to them for their virtuosic artistry.

A Better Time

Dutton | Reservations (2022) for Saxophone Quartet

MELANCHOLIA

Planet of Lana Original Soundt

Elo & Lana

Tailo Village

About a year ago, composer John Kaefer guest lectured a class that I was taking at the University of Rochester. Afterwards, he presented us three clips from media he had scored as an option for us to re-score for an assignment. The most intriguing was a haunting six-minute clip from ONLY, a post-apocalyptic drama starring Freida Pinto and Leslie Odom Jr.

The clip, which featured two events in the story taking place simultaneously (from two different points, chronologically), called for a hybrid of electronic and acoustic musical sounds, blending together to create a cue that had to be as beautiful and nostalgic as it was intense and tragic.

A year later, it came time for me to complete a recording session, per the requirements for my degree at the Eastman School of Music. After choosing to record a live ensemble for this cue, I decided to use my allotted time to record nine string players ten times, gradually dismissing players after each take, in order to produce a sound more expected from a symphonic orchestra. From there, flute, piano, and eight brass parts (all of which I played on trombone) were recorded and then put together with a small number of digital samples (two synthesizers, a gran cassa, and a sub bass).

I could not have had a better set of players, nor could I have had a better tech team, to help me bring this together. Out of everything that I have recorded thus far at Eastman, this ranks among my favorites.

Waterfall

Fanfare for Fireworks (Suffolk Principal Orchestra)

Pianist, Film, Video game and New Media composer 
Graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University- Music For New Media

Check out my website! Vincentfasano.com 
Contact for commissions: fasanov123@gmail.com

Strange Enchanted Garden

Vincent Fasano

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