Apple Fantasy is a single, continuous movement composed of six, distinct sections: (i) First-bite Crunch, (ii) Orchard Breeze, (iii) Harvest Sunset, (iv) Baking, Bubbling, Steaming, (v) Cider Press, and (vi) Dew-covered Bushels. The piece and its sections take their names from the images I imagined while composing the piece. They evolved in parallel with the musical material as it grew and the piece took shape. It seemed to me that the different sections were depicting a full, 24-hour day, with “First- bite Crunch” happening in the morning, “Orchard Breeze” happening in the afternoon, and so on until the next morning (“Dew-covered Bushels”).

Musically, the entire piece grows out of the opening slow trill to create different grooves and moods while maintaining the sixteenth-note surface rhythm (except for the first half of “Bubbling, Baking, Steaming,” which maintains the ostinato gesture but as eighth notes). Many of the apple-related images I saw in the music were inspired by the various shapes and sounds of the ostinato. The open- ing snap is the “first-bite crunch.” The shift from simple to compound meter felt like a cool “orchard breeze.” In shifting the ostinato to eighth notes in “Baking, Bubbling, Steaming,” the music felt like it was seething. In contrast to these rhythm-inspired titles, “Cider Press,” was named after the continual twisting and tightening of its harmony. Likewise, “Harvest Sunset” was inspired by that section’s melodic flourishing, as if suddenly the sky and the apples reflected the same crimson red.

Apple Fantasy was commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University and written for Hub New Music, who premiered it on January 15, 2021

NEMPAC Concert Jan 15, 2021

Apple Fantasy

Marco Elia Righi - Foresta di sogni (2023)
Recorded by the Budapest Art Orchestra

Marco Elia Righi - Orchestral Works

Foresta di sogni

Foresta di sogni (2023)

This was a grad school project 16 years ago for my music technology class where we had to create a soundscape to learn Pro Logic and utilize panning and other technics to paint sound.

I decided to take the approach of trying to tell a story with you being in the shoes of a soldier in the middle of a battlefield

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Demo for the Stefania Maratti - Solo Flute by Fluffy Audio

Articulations used : 

Legato with Vibrato, Trills, Sus and shorts

The flute is used in different ways : Exposed solo, layered sus with other instruments, Fast passage arpeggio, and legato doubled with violin.



Pattern : Stefania Maratti - Solo Flute Demo

Short exercise / proof of concept.

Imagine a scene where a man is living through his memories of the past while standing on high ground, seeing the grandeur of nature in front of him which reminds him of something long lost...
I tried to create a soundscape that would fit in a film presentation of that. Some of the sounds you hear "are from the memories" while some are there to fit the "filming location" and the atmosphere in the scene.
Close your eyes. Can you see it?

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The picture is from the depths of the Internet. Imgur?! Please do contact me if I cannot use it like this! I mean NOOOO HARM!

Distant Memory (2012)// Exercise and proof of concept (emotional, thoughtful, epic)

Short track created during the score production of Kontakti.

Photo by: Martin Melicherik @ Pixabay

This Had to Happen (2019) // (Piano, Violin, Choir, Sad)

Newborn Contempt (2020) // (Harp, Calm, Vocals)

Hedwig's Theme Selection (Cinematic Studio Series)

I am a professional french horn player and musician. I've always been fascinated by films scores especially those by John Williams as well as video game scores from Koji Kondo and games such as Soul Calibur and Final Fantasy. Composition has been a hobby of mine and is something that I enjoy to do. My style tends to be epic inspired by film scores as well as atmospheric moods with ostentation accompaniment as inspired by video games.  

Hopefully you enjoy what you hear!

War - A Soundcape

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