This is beautiful. I would love to record this! Let me know if you’re interested in a collaboration. Fantastic work! 🎻❤️

Hello all film score lovers.  Please enjoy this new theme for solo violin I have created!

Captain Everest's Theme (For Solo Violin)

Bioluminescence

Life Cycles

Jumping Fish Competition

The 'Dawn of Dawns'. was orignally called the Yawn of Dawn, but we didn't think that worked.

Dawn Of Dawns

Traditional Welsh folk song ("Llwyn Onn") 
English lyrics by Thomas Oliphant (19th century)
Vocals and Instrumentals by Layna Claunch

The ash grove, how graceful, how plainly 'tis speaking
The harp through it playing has language for me
When over its branches the sunlight is breaking
A host of kind faces is gazing on me
The friends of my childhood again are before me
Each step wakes a memory as freely I roam
With soft whispers laden the leaves rustle o'er me
The ash grove, the ash grove again is my home
 
Down yonder green valley where streamlets meander
When twilight is fading I pensively rove
Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander
Amid the dark shades of the lonely ash grove
'Twas there while the blackbird was cheerfully singing
I first met that dear one, the joy of my heart
Around us for gladness the bluebells were ringing
But then little thought I how soon we should part
          
My lips smile no more, my heart loses its lightness   
No dream of the future my spirit can cheer
I only can brood on the past and its brightness
The dear ones I long for again gather here
From ev'ry dark nook they press forward to meet me
I lift up my eyes to the broad leafy dome
And others are there, looking downward to greet me
The ash grove, the ash grove again is my home

Ash Grove

Unboxed August 2024

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A View From Here

Our Dog

Lost World

Saved By Extraterrestrial Abduction

'Alien Nation' Of 'Affection'

This is Charnia.
Charnia is the oldest extinct  organism known to man.
We still dont know if it was a plant or animal.
What we do know is that it lived alone in the bottom of the ocean in freezing temperatures and total darkness.
Charnia died .... without ever feeling the warmth of the sun.
Art work idea by me,done by SamBuddz.

Charnia

Find something that you love to do, find someone to pay you to do it, and you will never have to work a day in your life. I am doing just that by entering the field of film scoring.

My love for music began in my childhood and I began playing piano at age four. Labeled a child prodigy by the local media, I was performing concerts at age six.

I produced and recorded two CDs by age 14, the proceeds of which were donated to specific charities. As a result, I was nominated for a local volunteer of the year award in 2009. At 16, I became interested in film scoring. That interest has grown into a love for this musical genre.

I scored 23 films for Red Eye Film Productions. Those films have received awards and recognition from several outlets. I was part of award-winning composer Christopher Young’s residency program, The Tilden House, in Culver City, California. In 2018, 

I was selected as the Statewide Young Soloist of the Year, awarded by arts4all Florida (a private not-for-profit organization).In early 2019, I created the original score for a 7-part mini-series titled Deathless, which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. 

Later in 2019, I scored the film, Front Burner; winner of the 48-Hour Film Competition in Savannah, GA. Front Burner, can be found on my filmography page and premiered at the Filmapoloosa 2019 Film Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

In 2020, my film, I Will Not Say His Name, was accepted at the Tally Shorts Film Festival (Tallahassee, FL) the Gasparilla International Film Festival (Tampa Bay, FL), and the Philadelphia Film Festival.

In late 2020, I scored the feature film, A Day in the Life, which is currently available on Amazon Prime.

I also scored an immersive theater play, The Savannah Underground, which is a theatrical sequence of 3 stories about Savannah Georgia’s dark history. 

In early 2022, I was given the opportunity to score director Adam Marino’s drama/thriller film, “The Ride”. Produced by Jessica Roszko, the independent film starred Savanah Joeckel, Paul Sorvino, Dee Dee Sorvino, Dean Cain, Mark Justice, and DB Sweeney. It went on to premiere at the Spotlight International Film Festival, showing at Cinemark theaters in Jacksonville Florida. More about this film is to come.

In late 2022, I had the amazing opportunity to meet animator and director, James Scott. James is currently working on Akashic Spheres, a miniseries for which I will be scoring the original music. Stay tuned for more episodes and music later in the year.

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