Music I made for a sequence of a short film.
https://youtu.be/hCvz70BYjhg

Composting short film

Amateurish stuff about the Silmarillion, no intent to infringe JRRT


The refrain follows the first four lines of the poem of the Eärendillinwë that Frodo heard when he walked off for a minute during the evening in Rivendell and suddenly heard Elvish voices chanting.  The remainder of the piece is intended to shift into sort of a theme of the Silmarillion overall (sort of a cinematic theme) and doesn't follow the rest of poem's words.
Sharp listeners will note a few influences:

1) the spots where it seems to pause are the short bit of music when Aragorn tries to give back the Evenstar to Arwen, shortly after the halfway point of the Two Towers movie (when we had discs it was a minute or 2 into the 2nd disc after Eowyn gives Aragorn the rabbit stew ("The Evenstar does not wax or wane...").  With a triumphal major-key phrase-ending intended for Beren & Luthien that differs from the Two Towers phrase.

2) a few places I borrow from the Returner's Hideout theme in Final Fantasy 6.

other places for my music:

Repost Exchange link
https://repostexchange.com/users/doug-stoothoff

DistroKid Slaps forum page
https://slaps.com/dougstoothoff

Spotify Artist link
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7EuvIQRQESX9WFtwI6GqWB

Spotify Playlist link
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bfWQDwIV4MqqsL8mgZbKT

Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/doug-stoothoff/1687430940

Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/browse/music-items/artist/B0C4YK678Y/chronological-albums

Boomplay
https://www.boomplay.com/artists/70114948

Qobuz
https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/interpreter/douglas-p-stoothoff/18758728

iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/artist/douglas-p-stoothoff-40424070/

Pandora
https://www.pandora.com/artist/douglas-p-stoothoff/ARjZ7nth7x9xvpg

The sheet music of all my tracks is also at MuseScore:
musescore.com/user/59934706/sheetmusic

tracks are downloadable at my Bandcamp at:
https://dougstoothoff.bandcamp.com/

Eärendillinwë 2022 06 13 Rough

Tobacco

i'm fine, it's fine

Link to vid:
https://youtu.be/3EW2m0SkOdo

Thinking Of Those Loved Ones - Combstead / Robert Grigg

Toad's Improv

Midnight Synths - Collab w/ Kenna-Rae

Galaxy Song [Eric Idle Cover]

I aimed for a caribbean feel using skank guitar, organ bubble, bass and percussion punctuated by a trombone chorus. I also added a sort of descant using a sampled accordeon to complement the voice. Overall I planned this as a response to what I could hear in the vocal line. For this reason the trombone riffs and snare patterns were totally improvised while listening to the voice.

tim holden

Neev Seawall Remix (ath)

After reading a couple of articles about the struggle ex-prisoners have to make a new life, it inspired me to write a song about a fictional character who actually does make a go of his new life on the outside.

Movin' On

Growing up as an only child has its benefits and downsides

Only Child

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams.





Galaxy Song [Eric Idle Cover]

SpukSchreibMaschine