This is a scoring cue which I scored for my latest feature film Anything Goes.

This is a scoring cue which I scored for my latest feature film Anything Goes. I've decided to post this since it will be showing tonight at the Moving Image Film Festival (October 14, 2011)

Anything Goes - All Gone Wrong - M8

This is the 5th cue for "Hope Is In the Air". It's a documentary directed by Scott McLean which I was asked to do last minute. It's been one of my favourite because it was actually the first documentary I scored. I found it a totally new experience, where the only constraint was that the mood fit the moment, there was no need to keep a certain leit motif which is common in most classical movie music (think themes).

I also got to really mess with the piano sound by running it through a ton of filters to get that airy feeling (no pun intended)

Hope Is In The Air - Cue #5

I really, really like this one. It's also from "Hope Is In The Air" by Scott McLean

Hope Is In The Air - Cue #2

This is the opening credits to the first feature film I scored which was "From Wimp To Pimp" directed by Ben Goldenberg, who gave me my first crack at a feature score. It has a lot of my initial musical style which was mostly funk/jazz and not orchestral at all. In this film I had to reference a lot of styles to match the pop culture references, and it was definitely a trial by fire.

It was a mix of midi instrumentation with the rhythm being live recorded in my basement on a drum kit, congas, bongos, and agogo bells. The drumkit was played by master drummer and good friend Paolo Iannucci, and the congas and bongos were played by equally good friend Andrew Frade. (keep up the conga playing!)

All midi instrumentation was from the MOTU Symphonic Instrument library.

Demo Reel - FW2P - Opening Credits

This is a score for a short film where I really started playing with rhythm and orchestration. This was a fun one as it changed tones halfway through and I needed to bring it down in a nice way.

Short Score - W

A little diddy I wrote as a proof of concept.
Featuring Piano, Celesta, Clarinet, Oboe, Violin I, Viola, Bass Viol, and Percussion.

Corporate-Sketch

This was the first piece I wrote. It was for Rick Skyler's Hangwire.

Mucho thx to rick for giving me my first shot.

Hangwire Trailer

This was a piece for a parody youtube video criticizing the Russian stance on homosexuality during the winter olympics. Lyrics by Adam Cohen and Daniel Jourdan. I wrote all the music, and melody.

Mother Russia

This is from a feature documentary project that was cancelled. Really enjoyed the direction I started. Would have been fun to see where it went.

Michael Sousa

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