The teaser for How to Train Your Dragon 2 has gotten me the most excited for 2014's year of movies than any other trailer.  Needless to say, it's been in my thoughts and imagination.  Cue this track for some fun adventurous music.

The final panel of Calvin and Hobbes was also inspiration...oh I guess I really like characters that are man and faithful (awesome) beast companion.


Enjoy!

Let's Go Exploring

Over the summer I worked on a few tracks that I styled as if they could exist in the amazing world of How to Train Your Dragon.  I got back to school in the Fall and lo and behold an entire class became devoted to creating themes and writing music for several scenes from HTTYD.  Needless to say, it's been a blast and I was able to continue my thread of inspiration from the summer.

This is the first polished result!  It's two cues intended for the scene where Toothless takes Astrid and Hiccup on a pretty adventurous flight before going on the romantic height of the movie.  Getting to score that? Priceless.

I hope you enjoy it!

…While Flying On A Dragon

This score was created to learn how music can function as branches for interactivity.  Each section was made into little loops that could be triggered at random by the engine, lessening repetition.  The music is designed to go with the game Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch.  It's sections correspond to explore mode, mini battles and boss battle.  The last two are contained in the second track.  Enjoy!

Ni no Kuni - Mini and Boss Battles

Ni no Kuni - Intro & Explore

Finally got around to putting together cues from a re-score of a scene from Wall-E referred to as 'Foreign Contaminant'.  So many people were involved with this project.  Huge thanks to George & Alison for their support.  Alex Cote for his mad producer notes.  Natan Wythe for engineering the session.  And the FABULOUS players!

Flute: 
Rachel Dziezynski
Brittney Balkcom

Violins:
Jeffrey Gaiser
Praxton Smith
Gabriel-Hugo Majou

Cello:
Emily Joseph
David Gomez
Julian Lenz

Plant!

Experiments In Atrophy I

Awkward cello played by me...don't ever doubt the usefulness of any kind of real sound recording, no matter how poor the performance!

Experiments In Atrophy III

Again

Built a few synths recently for self-education purposes and put this together to explore them a bit.

Zyno-thetics

67.2

Color is an amazing short film written and directed by Emily Pietro, you can check it out here: https://vimeo.com/179803249

Huge thank you to Chris Burgess for mixing this.  I've been a ridiculous fanboy of his music and artistic drive for a long time---we've tried to collaborate a few times and I'm so excited we finally got to!  He brought out everything I was hearing (but not quite hearing) in the score, gave it shape, polish--very grateful for his efforts! Check out his work here: https://soundcloud.com/cburgess1

The first cut I saw of Color didn't have any sound, it was a completely blank slate, but even though it was silent the film's story, and incredible acting by Obehi Janice, was anything but quiet.  I knew the music needed to feel organic to the environment, to grow out of the picture and be felt before it was heard. I wanted it to be restless--ceaseless in it's need to communicate something, just like the character.  So you open your favorite DAW and look through your sounds and...ploop.  Orchestra tones were too grand, piano by itself was too present and plucky...the music needed to sit, shape, outline, fill in, brush...it needed to paint.  I didn't have any paintbrushes in the house, so I turned to a cello and a bow and thought surely we can make brushing sounds with that.

I'm definitely not a cello player.  My efforts are laughable, but I took a couple hours and made a whole bunch of 'brushing' sounds with the bow on different areas of the cello.  Holding the bow incredibly ineffectively, brushing it up and down on the strings, sul pont, sul tasto, everything and anything I could think of; and the result is 80% of all the sounds you hear in this score.  Always, always, take a moment to make something new and unique for your project.  Those couple hours of sampling fueled the creative tank for the whole rest of the project.

Hope you enjoy!  If you have any questions about this project, or scoring in general, I'm first and foremost a nerd and LOVE to talk about this, so shoot me an email! zachary@zacharylucia.com

(2) Nothing Works - Color Soundtrack

(3) Color - Color Soundtrack

(1) Blank Canvas - Color Soundtrack

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I play games, make music, craft food and am a proud parent and hubby. I love cinnamon.

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