This song was originally created for a documentary film that never was completed.  This song was intended to create suspense and intrigue as the closing audio for the extended trailer.   

Song 9

It's An Old Tune Everyone Knows It

This was opening soundtrack music to a documentary I ended up mothballing.  It's intended to be eerie and almost off-putting, an intentional discomfort was the attempted evocation on this track.

Prelude To An Unmade Film

Part of a soundtrack for a documentary about lawsuits and the 7th Amendment. The track was intended to build tension and anticipation.  The hammering repetitive sound, was to give the feeling of unease imitating the gavel in a court, as this was for a film about the court system.  

Heartbeat and Gavel

Alternate version of Prelude to an Unmade Film

Prelude To An Unmade Film II

I'm reading Michael Rabiger's "Directing the Documentary" and he talks about the duration of clips and the rhythm of editing.  

He mentions the influence of heartbeat, but also of breath.  Both intertwined, with different pacings.  I had thought of heartbeat with rhythm in music and film, but not of breath.  As soon as I read that, I thought of the previews before I watched The Revenant, the simple pulsing between edits of a thriller, but too slow to be the heartbeat, I now see it was the rhythm of anxious breathing.  The pulse pounding single key pressed was the exhale or deep inhale, the fading of the tone was breath ending, and the silence was the momentary gap before the next scared pull for air, all paced within a similar rhythm of 2 to 4 seconds roughly.   

It amazes me the effectives of simple soundtrack music at times.  Though it's a fine line.  Like painting, it can go from masterpiece minimalism to unfinished in a short window, or the slightest of missed strokes of timing, but when pulled off, the layering of simplicity can beautiful.  It's like a monochrome outfit that looks perfect.  

Rhythms Of Heartbeat and Breath

Influenced by Michael Rabiger in "Directing the Documentary" emphasizing the emotion of breathing in rhythm, just like the heartbeat.  

Rhythm of Drowning

I'm a filmmaker that started creating music as soundtracks for my film projects.  I initially began playing music to find more rhythm as a film editor, as the correlation and pacing of music and edits in movies is deeply intertwined.  Some tracks are for soundtracks, but most are just random accidents on keys.

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