Film Music - Nilo Alcala
www.niloalcala.com

Film Music

NILO ALCALA

epic/filmscore

experiential

Lesemusikk

The instrumental of my take on "O Come O Come Emmanuel" - originally written for Willow Creek & Salomon Ligthelm. I had so many requests for just the music that I exported a version without the lyrics. This track has been featured on some powerful films - check some of them out:

1) Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY | Jefferson Bethke

2) The Prophecy (Willow Creek Christmas) http://vimeo.com/18759302 | Salomon Ligthelm, Bjorn Amundsen & Blaine Hogan

The Prophecy

Philter - The Lounge

Buy 'Innocents':
Deluxe CD: http://smarturl.it/innocents2cd?IQid=soundcloud.description
iTunes LP: http://smarturl.it/innocentsitunes?IQid=soundcloud.description
Double Gatefold LP + CD: http://smarturl.it/innocentslp?IQid=soundcloud.description

Hear more from 'Innocents':
http://innocents.moby.com

Moby on 'Saints':

“‘Saints’ was supposed to be a song with vocals – a big New York 1984 almost freestyle type song. Originally it was just drums, bassline, and synths;
it kind of reminded me of something you would’ve heard at Danceteria in ’84 -’85,  pre house music. But I was never able to write good vocals for it. By the end, I kept adding more strings, more orchestral elements, more drums, so I ended up with an instrumental that was so filled, there just wasn’t room for real vocals on it.
I like music with vocals, but having an instrumental on a record provides a moment where the listener doesn’t have to be as engaged, so you can kind of take a little break; the parts of your brain that are engaged by people singing can quiet down for a minute and you can just relax. 

Spike said ‘Saints” reminded him of ‘Slave to the Rhythm’ and ‘Unfinished Sympathy’: when he told me that, I listened to them, and was like, ‘Oh, yeah – you’re right!’ It wasn’t intentional, and I wasn’t aware of it when I was working on it, but afterwards I was like, “Yeah, I hear it.” If you listen to records enough, eventually they are going to infect how you make your own music. The fact that “Unfinished Sympathy” is one of my favorite songs of all time, and “Slave to the Rhythm” is such an inspirational piece of music, it’s not surprising that some of those elements would come through in what I do.”

Innocents

Saints

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Lepidoptera Effect

"Tatiana’s Timepiece" - I set out to create a “sonic story” for this track by composing mini segments using Hanz Zimmers’ theme, predominantly the vocal stem. In the section after the opening, I manipulated the main music fragment to craft a melodic line that somehow modulates from one tonal center to the next, and used varying meters alternately 4/4, 3/4/, 2/4).  The use of clock sounds add to an “imagined storyline” allusion to this 90-seconder piece. Enjoy the time travel! =)

Feel free to like, favorite, share, comment dear friends!
http://www.hanszimmerwantsyou.com/tracks/2251

Nilo Alcala
Los Angeles, CA
www.niloalcala.com

"Tatiana's Timepiece" by Nilo Alcala - BLEEDING FINGERS CONTEST (Hanz Zimmer)

Jamie Woon-Night Air (Solomun Version)

غصّة 
غناء :طارق سالم/ vocal: Tarek Salem
كلمات وألحان: زياد شحّط / Lyrics & Composer : Ziad Shahet
التوزيع الموسيقي : رافي فقس/ Arrangement : Rafi Fakes
ميكسينغ وماسترينغ : الياس ملكي/ mixing & mastering: Elias Malki 
تسجيل : Acoustic Studio
تصوير: سعيد الحماد / DOP : Saeed Al Hammad
إنتاج : راديو روح/ Production: Rouh Radio

غناء :طارق سالم/ vocal: Tarek Salem: غصّة

Somber/Dark/Contemporary - Keyboard, Synths, E.Guitar, Pizzicato Strings

I have made a new club version of "Street" by Jamie Woon. Hope you like it ;)
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE! 

All the best,
Prunk
for contact: info@prunk.nl


Jamie Woon - Street (Prunk Remix)

This is my entry to the PROJECT INFINITY composition competition!
Please visit the link http://contest.sonokinetic.net/124 and click VOTE!!!
THANK YOU!

This was created using the Full Version of PROJECT INFINITY, also Sonokinetic's Felt Force One, and live sounds I recorded.

Vocals: Lillian Choi-Sedilles and myself,

CEREMONIAL BURNING

Film Music Demo 2 - Nilo Alcala

David Morales - Here I Am (Kascade Remix)

The Hour Is Near

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mattjpmusic

Archangel

Here are excerpts of the film score I composed for an upcoming full length feature. 

Original Soundtrack - "Bayang Magiliw" (2013)

Philter - Untitled

Look Back In

Originally released in 2013 for my score of Finding Home, I decided to revitalize and resurrect the original ideas in April of 2016. Here's the remastered version of Breakthrough:

Vocals: Elizabeth Navarra-Varnado & Tony Anderson
Guitars: Richard Wooldridge & Curt Vernon
Mix & Master: Chad Wahlbrink

Licensing can be brokered through Music Bed | www.musicbed.com


Breakthrough (Remastered)

Nilo Alcala’s compositions and arrangements have been performed in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. His choral suite Manga Pakalagian has been hailed as “extraordinary...” (Eric Whitacre), “very fine...” (Morten Lauridsen), “...powerful... spectacularly engaging” (Lauri’s List), “...exuberant and at times hypnotic...”(Cultural Cocktail Hour), and “...scaled peaks of genius” (Asian Journal).

Alcala made history for being the first composer from the Philippines to receive the prestigious Aaron Copland House Residency Award (2017), as well as the first Filipino to be commissioned by the Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale and premiered at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. 

Alcala’s awards also include the POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award from The Esoterics (Seattle, WA), the 2nd Prize Asian Composers League Young Composer Award (Israel), and Ani ng Dangal (Harvest of Honor) from the Office of the President of the Philippines. His commissions include the National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA); Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival; Korean Ministry of Culture; Asia-Europe Foundation; and premieres by the Metro Manila Concert Orchestra. 

Alcala was composer-in-residence of the Philippine Madrigal Singers (UNESCO Artist for Peace) which premiered his works in international competitions such as the Florilege Vocal de Tours (France); the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing (Italy); and events including the American Choral Directors Association National Conference (Dallas, TX); the 9th World Symposium on Choral Music (Argentina); and America Cantat 7 (Colombia). 

An Asian Cultural Council grantee, Alcala is also a Billy Joel Fellow at Syracuse University where he earned an MMus in Composition and received the Irene L. Crocker Music Award. He holds a BM in Composition at the University of the Philippines, graduating Magna cum laude. 

A versatile composer, Alcala also scores for the screen. His music for the film Homecoming (Gil Portes, Director) earned nominations for Best Musical Score at the Metro Manila Film Festival and Star Awards for Movies. He is also part of the composers team for Train Station, a ground-breaking international film by CollabFeature with 40 directors from 25 of countries. Alcala also recently scored White Horse Pictures’ short documentary Candlestick Park Fans (The Last Ticketed Concert of The Beatles) to promote Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eighth Days A Week”. He is currently music director of Club Six Studios, a Silicon Valley-based mobile video game company.

"Tatiana's Timepiece" by Nilo Alcala - BLEEDING FINGERS CONTEST (Hanz Zimmer)

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