Name: Kunae by Robin Watson
Duration: 5 min 6 s
Description: Hotchpotch production/arrangement of a song idea that came from my lovely friends Sasha and Mimismooth! Fender Telecaster/Gibson ES335.

Hotchpotch production/arrangement of a song idea that came from my lovely friends Sasha and Mimismooth! Fender Telecaster/Gibson ES335.

Kunae

Welcome to Thom's world. Thom is, generally speaking, a fairly normal, although totally nerdy, basically optimistic, shaggy-haired, shuffling thirteen year old ... who just happens to be a total brainiac wiz-kid when it comes to quantum mechanics and mechanical engineering. Oh, and he has a dog named Baker. 

This is a "sci-fi sea shanty" composite of several cues from scenes as Thom and Baker head off from his seaside home to tryout Thom's latest time travel invention on an unsuspecting London Underground.

Album Liner Notes: Creating the soundtrack for "Alternate Travel Options" was a unique experience. First of all, it was a rush project for a student-produced short film with an insanely tight deadline. The film was also a joint project for two of the student's classes -- one a film class and the other on European history -- which meant the music wasn't going to be the standard documentary fare. (This became even more obvious when the reference tracks arrived in the email: early psychedelic-era Pink Floyd and 60's classic series Doctor Who.)

Then the script arrived  -- a science fiction storyline involving a 13 year old wiz kid (Thom) who transforms his recently-deceased grand mother's washing machine into a time machine so that he can travel back in time to warn her of the accident that caused her untimely demise. One problem. The time machine only works if it is moving at an average of 20.5 miles per hour, which as it turns out, is the speed of the London Underground. So Thom and his faithful pup ("Baker" ... yes, the film's writer is clearly a classic Doctor Who fan) take the occupants of an entire train on the time travel adventure of their lives.

Kunae

Robin Watson

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