Name: The Encounter, Film Score - Alien Ship Chase by matthewhinson
Duration: 1 min 17 s
Description: This is a track that I composed for the CGI Animated Film, The Encounter, by the brilliant director/producer/animator Thomas DeCarlo. I have "beefed it up" into a concert suite for the purpose of displaying the primary melodies in this film, and to highlight the inspiration that this film bestowed upon me. It's hard to create without being truly inspired - this film was a gift.

This one has it all - action, drama, romance, heroism and a big, Hollywood finale.
The piece starts in the middle of an intense action sequence with sforzando brass, augmented/dominant Horn melodies and staccato strings playing on a subdivided triplet ostinato.  Harmonic modulations ascend, increasing the drama.  The aforementioned string-ostinato (repetitive figure) permeates the entire piece and acts as a glue throughout the movement.  The figure becomes fully realized at 1:07 when the entire orchestra, choirs and percussion canon it in unison.
As the strings continue the motif, rotating trumpets and horns play fragments of a heroic melody that crescendos to 1:32 where a transposition of the melody and subsequent harmony are revealed.  
Finally, the piece goes through several more key changes and transitions before tremolo strings and brass fanfares conclude.
And if you understood all of that, congratulations!  You have a useless music degree like myself!

Summer Blockbuster

This original melody, much like Beethoven's Eroica Symphony No. 3 (completely unrelated musical material),  goes on a journey before we hear it in it's entirety; before it reveals it's true form and zenith.  

Orchestrations include spiccato violins and celli in ostinato - a quintessential technique for any modern movie composer; soaring horns in 3rd intervals, tremelo and harmonic strings for color; brassy, almost strident trumpets; intimate piano figures paired with children's chorus; a healthy low brass section; and Godzilla Drums/Timpani to give the percussion some real "umph!"

Enjoy!

Interstellar

Elegiac piano solos, sonorous choirs, warm harmonies, and soaring  strings coalesce to create what my friends describe as "pretty cool."

I do hope you enjoy :)

Shore

I decided to experiment with some non-orchestral, electronic sounds to create a "movie-trailer music" type piece.  A simple, 8-note motif is introduced first by piano, and later horns/choir/electronic lead with trumpet/string accompaniment.  An arpeggio-like ostinato is passed to and from electronic instruments and staccato violas throughout the entirety of the piece, and a pulsing, electronic bass can be heard throughout.  

Event Horizon

I created a fun piece that sounds like a Big Hollywood Super Hero movie, but also fuses together electronic sounds and harmonies from the current video game genre. 

Orchestration: Dynamic synths accompany a robust low brass section to create ever-ascending, block triads while frenetic strings paired with electronic guitars bounce along above in ostinato. Rounding out the core is a stout french horn section, solo trumpet, piano, and some sparse woodwinds for accent and color.

I want help naming this piece. Words that inspired me while writing it were: powerful, structural, indestructible, zenith, mega, apex, prime . . .

Zenith

Haven't had a lot of time to just write for myself lately, so I pumped out this little diddy. Enjoy & comment!

Epic Opener

This is a track that I composed for the CGI Animated Film, The Encounter, by the brilliant director/producer/animator Thomas DeCarlo. I have "beefed it up" into a concert suite for the purpose of displaying the primary melodies in this film, and to highlight the inspiration that this film bestowed upon me. It's hard to create without being truly inspired - this film was a gift.

The Encounter, Film Score - Alien Ship Chase

By far my most simple and, well, short piece I've composed to date.  Using more modern orchestration (pizzicato strings, bells, boys chorus) created a piece that I would market more towards Cancer Treatment Centers of America or perhaps even Apple.

Hope Soars

Single "I Look to You". Canção  que é originalmente interpretada pela cantora whitney, em uma versão ao vivo interpretada pela Pra. Kim Burrell com a participação de Whitney Houston no Bet Awards Live Celebration Of Gospel.

Kim Burrell I Look To You (Live) [ft. Whitney Houston]

Composer for all things media.  Specializes in big, lush, orchestral scores, but comfortable with the very intimate, minimalistic aspects of this craft as well.

The Encounter, Film Score - Alien Ship Chase

matthewhinson

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