Two radio spots promoting our award-winning indie short "The Case of Evil," created by Swords and Circuitry Studios

The Case Of Evil Radio Spot 2

The Case Of Evil Radio Spot 1

A preview of the opening to "Uncharted Regions," a science fiction radio drama series in the tradition of the Twilight Zone and Bradbury 13. Produced by Swords & Circuitry Studios. Based on the original series created by Neal Hallford and Ron Bolinger. 

Uncharted Regions

Uncharted Regions Opener - Preview

While lots of you know me as a writer, or a game designer, or a filmmaker, not as many of you are aware of me as a musician / composer. Unfortunately I don't have my gear anymore, but for at least a decade, I was fairly obsessed with making electronic music. 

Here's an infectious little pop ditty that I wrote back in the late '80s. Sorry for the muddy quality, but this was rescued from an old cassette tape. Never got around to writing lyrics for it, but it totally could have been a tune for one of the synth pop bands.

"What's Inside You" by Neal Hallford (Watermarked)

The Drive was a musical attempt to create something that felt like the experience of watching "The Lost Boys." It's a meditation on flying through the night in a roaring car, going as fast you can, and believing that you can live forever. Someday I'm going to use this in a film soundtrack. 

Heavy influence in this one from Tangerine Dream and Jean Luc Ponty.  And that funk clavinet was straight up a patch influenced by Stevie Wonder.


"The Drive" by Neal Hallford (Watermarked)

This piece was a very early composition of mine, written while I was attending the University of Oklahoma. At the time I only had a Yamaha DX7 and was writing sequences using the Atari 520 ST (which came with built in MIDI ports!) and was trying to see how I could get multiple timbres out a machine that could (theoretically) only play one patch at a time. By flipping the patch banks very quickly back and forth, I was able to get it to sound like it much more multi-layered than it actually was, and I was pretty happy with the result. 

The vision for this piece was a starship flying through space and passing through wormholes as it transitions from one part of the universe to another. I had thought to convince my good friend Kenneth Mayfield, an SF illustrator friend of mine, to create a painting to go with it as part of an art installation. I thought it might be cool to pair them together at a science fiction convention art show, but the collaboration project never happened. I still ended up with a fun composition.

As far as musical influences go, this is a pretty obvious stylistic homage to Jean Michel Jarre, with very big nods to both his Oxygene and Magnetic Fields albums. 

"Aeon" by Neal Hallford (Watermarked)

"Things We Said" is probably the most personal and reflective of all the tracks I ever created, coming out the very lonely state of mind I was in during my very single mid twenties. It's still one of my absolute favorite tunes.

"Things We Said" by Neal Hallford (Watermarked)

While assembling the first episode of Uncharted Regions, I wasn't able to find a simple ambient theme that quite fit what was in my head, so I dove in to create this piece for the Closing Credits (aka The Saucers Are Coming). It seems to encapsulate the mystery / sci fi vibe that I'm going for with the series, but it doesn't get in the way of the voice over. Simple pad.