Part of my musical output has been doing light soundtrack work, scoring for TV and radio commercials and industrial media production.

I call this “mu$ic for hire”. Lol.  It’s something I started for business output, that I’ve been doing since the late 1980’s.  It’s completely different from my usual Rock, Pop or Ambient Electronic soundscapes.  I really enjoy writing for other people’s frameworks when I get the opportunity.

There’s a lot of these little pieces in the vaults going way back, that I’m now going through and re-working and remastering.  What’s different about this one called “Discovery Road”? It was one of the first pieces of music I put together and finished aimed at business output, and it was done back when I had little to no equipment. 

What I did have, that I made full use of, was a very rare MIDI Guitar prototype that I managed to purchase direct from the Los Angeles inventor called the “Beetle Quantar”.  It was the first of an early technology breakthrough in playing guitar and having it transfer everything you played, instantly into computer sequencer code or musical notation.  It tracked faster than you could play, and almost never made mistakes.  My first experience playing it....I was blown away.

There had been almost nothing like it available before, that didn’t cost tens of thousands of dollars.  For the first time, it now meant I could actually play the sound of any other instrument, and transfer all those ideas flying around inside my head into finished musical scores. 

The guitar looked like a Fender Stratocaster.  It had no acoustic output.  You played it exactly the same as any other guitar, but it had all very thin “B” strings that were digitally scanned with a priority high frequency sonar signal that was sent down the frets and neck, and measured the distance of where your fingers were playing.  You only heard the sound of whatever synthesizer or sampler you had connected it too. 

Tracking was phenomenal.  It captured everything: strums, string bends, fingerpicking.  To this day, I haven’t really found better technology, but unfortunately, the company Beetle had their patents overruled by another major manufacturer, and were put of of business.  The other company came out with their own version of the guitar scanning technology, then quickly dropped it, and sadly, for whatever reasons, they buried it, and no one has ever used it again.

The Beetle Quantar MIDI guitar I used for nearly all the parts in this music (for quite awhile I didn’t even own a keyboard), sadly, had seen it’s day years ago, and now sits unused in it’s case in the basement, very much in need of repairs. I doubt if there are any replacement parts floating around out there somewhere in the world.

But it got me started!  And I did a whole lot of paying work with it.  I could do this - by playing my guitar!  And I’ve been experimenting and growing that exciting dream ever since.

Discovery Road

An Atmospheric piece exploring my two passions: MIDI Guitar Synthesizer and Eastern Ancient Instruments.

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Centennium

"Citadel" composed and performed with MIDI Guitar and Synthesizers.  
Artwork by Kevin Silvers

Citadel

Here are the demo songs for Q Up Arts sample/loops collections.

Denny Jaeger Master Violins Library

Moody, Midnight ambient solo Piano Piece inspired by a childhood friends photograph.  All Rights ASCAP Kevin Silvers AudioTrax Productions 2024.  Photo Credit: Paula Jansen

Opal Moon

A wistful piece for two acoustic guitars....

Wind Over Willows

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Not for public re-use without explicit permission from the Author.

Giant Anarch Invasion Cue 2B

"The Wedding Party”
A relaxing Solo Classical Acoustic Guitar and Violin Piece in a Folk/Renaissance Mood
Author: Kevin W. Silvers
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Not to be reused without the authors permission.

The Wedding Party

Theme song I wrote and performed for the movie "50 Million Dollar Bullet".
Premiered under my performing name "Kevin Silvers" at the trailer showing 12/7/2019 at Eagle Nations filming location in Neenah, WI
Shooting for the film begins June 2020

50 Million Dollar Bullet   (12 String Guitar Capo at 4th Fret)
 
Train rolls in
Wheels counting out time
Fate winds ‘round
And uncovers its lines
 
Like a big leather book
With it’s pages unbound
Falling down line
Like a silver coin’s sound
 
Like a bird on a wire
As a vine on a tree
Moments wind out
As the compass wheels free…
 
Chorus -
And a Fifty Million Dollar Bullet
Strikes straight out of time
 
And a Fifty Million Dollar Bullet
Hits straight on the line...
 
Over fields and rolling
Out of my sight
Friends and family members
Are holding on tight
 
Like hands joined in memories
Down a steel coiled chain
The last thoughts of you
Like the light in my brain
 
As a rope that will bind us
And justice undone
That the Truth stands behind us
Like the light of the sun...
-Chorus-
And a FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BULLET
Strikes home, out of time
And a FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BULLET
Hits straight on the line….
 
Eagle Nation still gathers
Over questions that remain
Under blue skies of mourning
Of the bloody red stain
 
Of a man killed in moments
While his innocence remains
With an iron line of Fire
And a moments judgment framed…
-Chorus-
And a FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BULLET
Strikes home, out of time
 
And a FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BULLET
Hits straight on the line
 
And a FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BULLET
Rains down from the Sky
 
And a FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BULLET
Hits home and you die……….
All Rights Reserved Audiotrax Productions 2019

Fifty Million Dollar Bullet Theme Song

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Composer, Writer, Music Performer, MIDI Guitar, Sound Scoring, Underscoring, Audio Production, Movie Themes

Opal Moon

Kevin Silvers

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