Sometimes, the music you need has to be at your fingertips, to keep creating and moving forward. Library music aims to develop a wide gambit of styles, genres, vibes and emotions through music that can be looped, chopped, extended and manipulated to any media. Stephen O'Connell brings his unique film scoring, cinematic, electronic and pop music background to library music, developing tracks for media that hasn't even been created yet.

Stephen O'Connell | Library Music for Screen Media

An exploration into an ambient, warped soundtrack, using sampled instruments to create a nostalgic and soft expression of emotion. 

This track utilises only the sounds included in MINIMA, Xperimenta's latest offering, available entirely free at: https://www.xperimentaproject.com/minima/?doing_wp_cron=1617537782.9416680335998535156250

The Water Below (2021)

A simple, yet persistent pace, like the ticking of a clock or the beating of your own heart. Constantly aware, yet never admitting, that the seconds fade away faster than we'd like. 

A quick piece of music used to demonstrate the string orchestra's placement in the stereo field. Notice that the heavier instruments are placed towards the centre, while the higher instruments occupy more of the stereo field. This is an alternative contemporary panning method that works as a hybrid between the classical orchestra seating arrangement and the modern day pop song.

Time Returns (2021)

Designed as library music, with loop-able sections to enable video editors to cut to fit.

Freefall (2021)

A new library music track for film scoring, using only my guitar and Spitfire Audio LABS instruments. An incredible collection of free plugins, LABS democratises music making and provides a great way for emerging composers to enter the world of music production. 

LABS instruments used: 

- Ondes Musicales (Fragile Air, Tape Swells, Morbius Blips)
- Synth Strings (Classic Strings, Classic Brass)
- Synth Pads (Pad #0010)
- London Atmos 
- Percussion

Wonder (2021)

A new library music track, using nothing but Native Instrument sample libraries, synths and effects/processors.

Running To The Horizon (2021)

A beautifully tragic sound evolution, like a slowly crashing wave washing away the last moments of a life.

Sombre Embrace (2022)

Twilight Sunset (2022)

Demoing my latest library, Fauxillon, available through Pianobook.

Rushing to Daylight (2022)

This track demos the free library Snowfall, available on Pianobook.co.uk.

Snowflakes (2023)

This track demonstrates the capabilities of the free Amalgam Analogue Synth library by Stephen O'Connell, a FREE Kontakt library available from Pianobook.

Radiance (Naked Version) (2023)

An alluring piece created entirely from Toska, the Kontakt sample library by Noon Instruments.

Stephen O'Connell | Library Music for Screen Media

Stephen O'Connell | Composer