Michelsen's Best

Over Mountains is the second track on the album Pursuit of Happiness. It explores the concept that we are bigger than our darkest moments, and uses piano and a rock beat to create an uplifting experience.

Pursuit of Happiness

Over Mountains

Pursuit of Happiness is the title track for the album, which attempts to portray Ryan's love of music creation from humble beginnings to a dramatic crescendo. Ryan writes his music with electronica, piano, and guitar to evoke his favorite elements of music - classical, trance, and rock.

Pursuit Of Happiness

Camaraderie is an orchestral instrumental which envisions a group of adventures who set out on a quest with high hopes, encounter a tribulation, and therefore must rely on each other for survival. The ending is uncertain, and leaves room for additional movements.

Camaraderie

Betrayal is one of the first songs I wrote using my orchestral VST pack. Heavily influenced from Lord of the Rings, but of course, it utilizes a lot of my own experiences for inspiration. The song opens with an immediate falling out in a situation, with a brief relapse leading into an organized chaos of emotional trauma that we all face when under duress.

Betrayal

Orchestra with choir, an ominous emotive with two movements. In the first we set the scene for a complete and utterly disastrous military situation, and in the second movement that scene is played out. The piece ends with a glimmer of hope before being extinguished by the stroke of fate.

The Defeat

For the Ides of March are always drawing near, so too is this neo-classical piece designed to emulate the majesty of a roman triumph, intrigue, and society through progressive instrumentation.

Caesar

Original and contemporary orchestral and electronic music.

Caesar

Ryan Douglas Michelsen