Imagine a little baby being silly or maybe a mischievous mouse stealing toilet paper.  Perhaps a 2 year old is bugging his older sister?  
I wanted to write something fun, playful, and light.

Mischief Mouse

A Hero Rises Up

It's a cloudy day and drizzling with rain.

Melancholy

The warm sun is shining through the curtains of your bedroom window and you went to bed last night.  It's the start of a beautiful day!

Good Morning

"On the night Tim went missing..."
Regret sucks.  This is a deep moment where Tim talks about his pain.

This is from the Fosca Features film Sunny Days.

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Sunny Days - Ben's Confession

Jesse loves musicals and operas so when he approached me to work with him on a live action short that was an opera, I was more than happy to oblige.  This work is an operetta in film clothes so it's not appropriate to call the music a 'score'.  It's much more up front than that, and very classical...

The film is not released yet so this is just the opening overture!

Performer credits:

Luke Kim - Cello
Charmaine Bacon - Flute
Mike Dassios - Clarinet
McKenna Thiessen - Oboe
Lily Fischer - Soprano

Luccica - Overture

This is unsettling music which is designed to create tension. In the context of the film, it would be mixed at a low level that is more felt than heard.  I boosted it up just for ease of listening in the context of other demos here.

The music is from a 48 hour film festival, beginning of Oct 2021.  For the film Hazel's Eyes.  This is music that was left on the cutting room floor.  (We needed extra depending on what was required for the film)

Hazel's Eyes - Extra Cue

This is the score from the film Hazel's Eyes, which was created for a Detroit 48hr film festival, oct 1st - 3rd, 2021.

I say it's abridged because I removed all the silence from the score.  Sometimes the most important thing for scoring a film is the silence.  We don't need music all the time.  But, a lot of silence is boring if people just want to hear the music!   

The first half of the score is very quiet within the context of the film, written to be felt more than heard.  I turned it up for the OST just for to make it easier to listen to in the context of my other demos.

Hazel's Eyes - Abridged Original Score

I went on a winter hike up Mt Swansea in British Columba, Canada. At a higher elevation the air was so pure and crisp, and the trees were all covered in snow and frost. It was stunning and surreal!
This music is the emotion I felt in that moment.
From the Castle Rock Demo Sessions.

Performer credits:

Violin & viola:  Rafael Javadov
Cello  Luke Kim

Sparkling Vista

This is a schmulzy romantic cue from the film After Ashes. It leads into a full orchestra reprise. For my portfolio, we decided to record with live strings. Rafael Javadov, Luke Kim, and I are all playing here!

Emil Levasseur