Name: Vector Owl - Halloween Short by MrBouzouki
Duration: 26 s

Sounds like he's wandered into a haunted part of the forest.  Excellent job casting the main theme into a minor key. Wonderful arrangement.

"Who" likes this? I do! Perfect. The sound here made me smile. :-)

A excellent variation on Vector’s theme, Pete. Outstanding orchestration as always.

A fine little atmospheric, colourful and descriptive score :)

Solo Guitar, Horns, Strings, Vocals: Guillaume
Concept, 12-String, Drums, Percussion: Naldo
Arranged: Guillaume and Naldo
Composer: Ralph Towner

Evening Sky

Explain a green world to a child
who has never played in the grass
Explain how it sounds to hear a bird sing
That flies through the sky in the wild
Explain the sound of a babbling brook
With sweet wind as it blows through the trees
Lay in the grass and watch the clouds pass
Feeling happy, so lazy and free.

My grandchildren cried when I said, "Go outside,"
as they clutched their phones in their hands
Playing meant games, addicted to screens
Play outside? I don't understand
Their memories of childhood, how will they explain
When playing outside was remembered as pain
I'm glad I'll be gone. I won't have to know
What the world was like when the food wouldn't grow

So many are waiting for somebody else
To wake up and fix the mess that was made
Who cares if the children are hungry and poor
You had to give birth since clinics locked doors
Who cares if the storms, the fires and drought
Destroyed their homes and made them afraid
The rich need more money, corporations say,
"Climate change is here to stay."

The wars, the bombs, refugees fleeing
Leaving their family by the side of the road
Thank God it isn't us, we say
Fox News tells us every night and day
We think we are safe if truth be told
God will save the religious right
Leave all others out in the cold
Stupidity has the largest price to pay

When the bees are gone and the birds stop singing
When the oceans are dead, only trash on the beach
We sucked out the life the world had to give
Only corpses of the dead now beneath our reach
We struggle to breathe, no healthcare for all
No backyards to play in, fading stars in the sky
Teach the children about green grass
Dreams to all. Goodnight

Explain a Green World To a Child

05/May/2022

Love Is Strange

14-03-2020

Improvised by Martin Reed,
Produced by Martin Reed,
Artwork by Martin Reed.

Floating through the Rings of Jupiter

In this track I used Rhodes, B3, electric guitars, synths, drums, bass and melodica.
It's a new version of an old track in my other Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1/free-minds
Thank you for listening !

Composition: Julien Apelian
Recording studio: Audio Colors
October, 8th, 2022

Free Minds

The Adventures of Vector Owl - Halloween Short

A 26 second piece of music to support an upcoming  Halloween themed Vector Owl short animation. If you can, compare this short with the original theme tune to hear how it's been tweaked to give what I think is a spooky vibe. 

YouTube link to the animated Halloween short

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptg_n37Ro6U

Vector Owl is a cheeky magical owl who gets up to various antics in the forest he calls home. Quite often, he just wants to have a quiet snooze but pesky creatures keep disturbing him.

Thankfully, with his understanding of the power of vector magic, he can conjure up solutions to these annoyances and get back to having a well earned rest.

YouTube link to the full animated Intro

www.youtube.com/watch?v=imB5RzyaMpg
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Instrumentation Used

Piccolo / Sousaphone / French Horn / Trombone / Woodblocks / Celtic Harp / Upright Bass / Ymir Choir / Lumina Choir

The sound of a Tawney Owl that is used in this piece was sourced from www.freesound.org and is classed as Public Domain.

( creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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Background

This project began with a 10 second piece of music and a very simple 2D animation of a little character called Vector Owl.

The music was expanded into a full theme tune, a brand new redesigned Vector Owl emerged and a change of animation software resulted in what you see here. Whilst familiar with creating music, animation is a completely new world to me and I'm still learning as I go.

All the graphic elements are vector-based, using a combination of Serif Affinity software for graphical development and various open-source packages for animation and video editing, with the original music created in Cubase Pro.

The idea of a Halloween Short for Vector Owl seemed a great opportunity to play around in adapting the original theme tune to a spooky setting.  I used the same instruments, slowed down the tempo and went from major to minor. The addition of some choral elements was enough for this short piece of music.

When completed, the Halloween short link will be posted here, but for now it can be enjoyed purely as a very short piece of orchestral incidental music. :-)

Vector Owl - Halloween Short

It took me a long time to complete this for several reasons. At times, John (or I) would forget the title, but I would tell him I had worked more on it. I liked the words from John, but couldn't find the emotional center. Glad I stayed after it now.

John: lyrics
Edro: arch-top guitar, vocals, octave mandolin, piano

It's a pretty little blacktop
With yellow stripes running long
How i got here's a story
Best served in a song
And you'll say, Lucien
You're a loser
Don't know how you get along

Chorus
I'm broke down
On the side of the road
No place I'm going
Or which way to go
If heaven's a highway
I'm doomed where i stand
End of the road
For old Lucien Ferrand

My life's a story better than Job
It started in a womb
Now this blacktop road
My mom was a saint
Or something real close
She put up with dad
And loved me the most

I been there and done that
Got the shirt to tell
But no one told me
How deep was the well
It's best summed up
By a paramour of mine
Lucien, she said, you're a tough sell

Chorus

If luck was a bucket of mishaps
And my troubles all existed there
Why I'd toss the old bucket in the well
And mayhaps my luck will flare
And head toward a nicer place
On this yellow striped blacktop
Right now, it's about all i can bear

It's true, I'm broke down
On the side of a road
But I know where I'm going
That i can guarantee
And it ain't the hell highway
With a yellow stripe brand
It's just the beginning
For old Lucien Ferrand

Lucien Ferrand (John Eagle lyrics)

Fragments

Trip to Deep space.

This track was improvised and realtime recorded with Mr-2000S.

Equipment:
Prophet 600
Modular synth: qu-bit nebulae2, clouds eetc
Poly Beboo for Deep reverb
Octatrack
Mackie 1642 VLZ
Korg Mr-2000s (DSD Recorder)

Enjoy!

Medetation Axis2 ;improvised soundscape for meditation

'Acquiescence' is an Ambient track reflecting my feelings regarding the "lock down". which was a crime against humanity. However this piece is for the the poor souls who suffered and died because of this global crime. I am reposting now, as I feel that it still applies and is a reminder to all of us that "Acquiescence" is the "rod that broke the camel's back"

A Shout in the Dark for the Grey Man

Acquiescence

A collection of songs, instrumentals and orchestral pieces charting my adventures in home studio recording and production.  All original compositions using voice, acoustic and electric guitar (sometimes using altered tunings), bouzouki, low and high whistles and MIDI instrumentation. 

I'm also using VST instrumentation to create classical compositions and integrating orchestral sounds into my songs and instrumentals.

Links to various instrumental projects and other Social Media links are available below.

My Eclectic Music Connections repost thread is here

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki-repost

Vector Owl - Halloween Short

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