This piece was written for the Brooklyn College Library Art Contest and is a response to the attached painting. I interpreted the painting as a type of bleak industrial city on an island leaking oil into the surrounding harbor. In the piece that I wrote, I tried to create the feeling of building and working in that city through the use of percussion and synthesizers. I tried to showcase the massive size of the city through large orchestral textures.


Invisible Cities

December 30th. Playing ukelele for exactly 5 days.

Island Fever Take 1

Wrote this track as an attempt to get it into a fashion video

70s Rock

KielWhitt10 wrote an original melody and challenged anyone and everyone on the Hans Zimmer Masterclass forum to write a short take on it. I changed it from 4/4 to 3/4, added some chords, and voila!

Zimmer Forum Challenge 1

An update on my original track with some automation and fuller orchestration.

Zimmer Forum Challenge Take 2

Another challenge on the Hans Zimmer Masterclass forum, this assignment involved scoring an imaginary scene where Sherlock Holmes solves a mystery in his head.  I started out with the idea of Sherlock deep in thought, the gears of his mind slowly turning, the gradual realization of the answer to the mystery and the look on his face, and finally, the epiphany and the race out the door!

Epiphany (Sherlock Holmes Rescore)

This track is loosely based on a theme by Colby Cumine. The assignment was to take someone else's melody and make it your own. I was influenced by Alexandre Desplat's score to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Zimmer Forum Challenge #3 @ ColbyCumine

This is the beginning of my entry to the Journey Challenge on the Hans Zimmer Masterclass Composer's Forum. The assignment was to start a piece and wait for comments and suggestions before elaborating on it later.

Journey-Westward

This is my submission to Junkie XL's #NowScoreThis challenge on YouTube. I drew inspiration from listening to the music from the movie as well as Tchaikovsky's string writing in his 5th and 6th Symphonies. I hope you like it!

#NowScoreThis - Furiosa (Mad Max Rescore)

A demo I did for a film project that never went through. After a suspenseful scene where the main character holds a gun to his own head, he misfires and gets a chance at life again. The clicking sounds were meant to be perceived as time ticking and there is an audible gunshot in the soundtrack.

Joe Pacilio

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