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Hold Music

Based upon a well known /r/nosleep post by /u/Skarjo titled "Autopilot." The script used is a condensed version of the original story; it's not mine. All the credit goes to /u/Skarjo for the fantastically chilling story. You can find the original post here: http://bit.ly/1RGBgsu

The score was notated in Finale, exported as a MIDI into Ableton Live, using Vienna Symphony Library samples and multiple layers of processing.
The resulting music was exported into Adobe Audition, along with my own voice recording of the script, and mastered with sound effects to finish up the experience.

Produced for my Arts Technology Advanced Sound Design course.

Autopilot

Premiered by Illinois State University's Symphonic Winds on July 17th of 2016.

The term “Anapæst” is one of the various metrical feet used in traditional Western poetry. It’s characterized by having two short syllables followed by a longer syllable. For example, in A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore, the opening line: “Twas the night before Christmas…”

In my piece for wind ensemble by the same name, I use this metrical foot as a basis for the composition. From small motifs, to an overall form and structure, I use the format of short short long, analogous to sentence structure in Classical music, to construct the music.

You can, for instance, hear the opening three phrases follow this structure. The first two phrases consist of two chords, and the phrases have a duration of three bars. These are the two short phrases. The third phrase consists of three chords, and has a duration of four bars, completing the long phrase.

Anapæst uses this metrical foot merely as a tool for construction, and is otherwise non-programmatic.


Anapæst

A wind ensemble arrangement of a choral piece I wrote in undergrad. The original text of the choral version is from Walt Whitman's poem of the same name.

Sometimes With One I Love (Wind Ensemble)

In my undergrad, I orchestrated Shostakovitch's piano prelude in G major from his Op 87. I took the midi data and turned it into this via my sample library, for practice (and fun).

Shostakovich Op 87 Prelude In G Major

For my Recording, Mixing, and Editing final, I scored a scene provided to us from a movie. I can't upload the scene, but I can upload the score. Written in short-score in Finale, performed on keyboard, then orchestrated into Ableton Live, synced to video and mixed in Pro Tools, and touched up in Adobe Audition. Samples are from the Vienna Symphony Library, and one small part was performed by me on trombone.

Michael Genson