A score I composed in Logic Pro X for my Film Scoring class. This score was created without picture as an exercise. The basic logline for this a girl sees her crush from afar and, with her friend, hides behind a bush nearby. The two friends argue on whether the protagonist should go and ask him out and cause enough commotion for the crush to notice them. The girl is forced out of hiding and awkwardly speaks to him while the friend watches from the bush. She eventually asks him out and he says yes.

Hide and Encounter

Aligned is a piece initially inspired by realizations I had about the world and how it works while I was abroad. It became an experiment in part-writing for me where the piano hands and the cello were all separate voices, each with its own idea and vision and flow, its own end goal and modal ideal. It’s meant to reflect the busyness of the world and how the ideals and values interact with one another in a search for peace, harmony and happiness in the face of new values and ideas. The piece starts with individual ideas and themes before revolving around a new idea (the ostinato), tonally fighting against it in order to maintain their own ideas. Some try to fight against the new idea but eventually gets roped into it, allowing for all views and parts to come to the same page for better or for worse. Aligned shows this through the differences in the three parts and their motions.

Kathryn Dunn