More music composed for Board Games. This piece was composed to represent the Shaper faction in Fantasy Flight Games, Android Netrunner.
Sound loops from Magix.

Android Netrunner- Shaper V2.MP3

I've been playing around with the idea of creating soundtracks for Board games. Why should video games have all the fun?
This is the general theme for Fantasy Flight Games, Android Netrunner: a game I no longer play, but it managed to inspire me to start creating such soundtracks.

Android Netrunner Final.MP3

This piece was designed for the Criminal faction in Fantasy Flight Games, Android Netrunner card game. The sound I was going for was a take on "The Duke's Theme" from John Carpenter's Escape from New York.  It has a similar drum line and an overall aggressive percussion sound.

CRIMINAL Theme Netrunner 2.MP3

The Anarch faction theme is one of my more complex electronic compositions. This one gave me fits. It took a long time to finally settle on a soundscape for this group, till I finally modified a theme I'd already worked on for another project. I just threw everything at it. Anarchy indeed.

It's Gonna Hurt Netrunner Anarch Theme

A friend of mine wrote a short story about a military star ship on a mission to close a black hole that was intentionally created to end a war between planets. As they conduct their mission, shadows and ghostly images of former crew mates haunt the halls and industrial walkways of the space station used to open the singularity. As they finally complete their mission, the station is sacrificed to the black hole, taking not only the physical remains of their dead comrades but the opportunity to commune with them once again. This is the funeral dirge I composed that accompanies that scene, as the station is slowly devoured by space and time.
I wanted something that sounded like the future equivalent of bagpipes.  It took a while to finally decide on a filter that sounds a little like a banjo. I may have been influenced by the Sorcerer's Journey from the Eagles.

Event Horizon

A collaboration with my fellow composer Jean Daigle. I loved this piece so much, I asked her if I could compose and perform a string arrangement to go along with it. Neither of us are happy with our individual performances, but we like the finished product very much!

Picking Cotton

One of my first "EPIC" soundtrack attempts using only sound loops from MAGIX Music Maker, and German Media Marketplace CATOOH. I now feel like this is overproduced, and I was hesitant to put it here, but I like comparing this piece to my more recent work to remind myself of how far I've come, and how far I have yet to go.

Battle for Golden Gate

Designed for a short story by my friend Kelli Meyer about a reformed professional assassin who is pulled away from her "normal" life to hunt down and kill a powerful Mid East politician. This piece is set during the actual assassination as the bullet finds its mark in the beating heart of the politician, and the heroine's desperate escape from a corporate high rise. The shredding guitar at the end of the piece is actually a sitar modified with a distortion filter.

Sniper

Another book soundtrack created for my friend Theresa Laws. Picture a blind old man with faded tattoos and faded scars, seated at a fireside at the edge of an intimidating black forest. For a coin, he'll tell you a story of adventure, glory, life and death, as the embers flicker into the night sky.  But the elaborate stories he spins always manage to come true. Be careful what you ask for.
Oh, by the way. I love pizzicato strings.

Stories in the Glenn

I wanted to compose a piece where every instrument was played as percussion:  guitars were limited to forceful chords, and keyboards were played in such a way as to provide a backing drum track. This was also my attempt to recreate Phil Collins' famous "gated reverb" drum sound from his hit "In The Air Tonight."  I got close, but I'd like to give it another shot someday.

Heavy Rythym

I was working on a novel that featured pirates from the Barbary Coast, and this was to be their introductory theme. I studied up on Eastern influences (mostly Turkish) in World music and stumbled onto the fact that traditional Eastern music was very much like traditional Celtic music which focused on the Penatonic scale, hence the distinct sound. So, I composed this Penatonic melody and layered it with Japanese Takio drums. I know, I mixed genres, but isn't that what World music is all about?

Mousad Theme (Barbary Pirates)

OK, permit me to be cheesy. This piece was composed for background music for a 20 year celebration video at my church. It's supposed to be a piece about fond memories, and flashbacks to simpler times. It's a piece my mom would listen to and say "Oh, that's nice."
Yes, it's cheesy, and it's production music, but I worked hard on it!  I wanted to achieve as much of a live performance feel as I could and I think it works. Just be sure you're in a comfortable chair when you listen.
This is also the first time I learned to use the bass as an "emotional accent." I was very proud of my bass work on this. Having its single notes hit at the same time as the bass drum and the bell chime gave this piece bright nodes of emotion, like sparks of memory firing off in the mind.

Yesterday's Eyes

If this sounds a lot like my "Battle for Golden Gate," that's because it's essentially the same piece rearranged for a Drum Corps. Of course there's no way an actual drum corps would perform this, unless someone was willing to drag a cello around the field, but I couldn't jettison the strings.
This is another piece exclusively using sound loops in the arrangement.

Wake Up March

Digital composer and audio engineer with a background in broadcast Radio, commercial production, and recording.  Recent projects include scores for short films, and the digital restoration of old and damaged vinyl records. Interest range from Bluegrass to TripHop. 
I work very closely with Vic Digital Media here in Houston, providing scripts, music, voice over work, and occasionally acting.

Gary “G-man” Denton

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