soundtrax for cinema (not yet conceived)
tom and carol and david
a re-work of tom misch’s “for carol” together with a sample from one of david lynch’s weather reports.
scratch night compilation
a compilation of five pieces commissioned as part of the monthly “scratch night” series at The Charlotte Street Foundation. KCAI student jack minor created the video for “a bird made of birds.”
credits:
“the wider sun”
jon hopkins - composer
sam freeman - trombones
f. jurden - keys
NASA solar dynamics observatory - videography
“before the revolution comes”
the last poets - spoken word
f. jurden - composer/keys
julia iverson - videography
“not waving but drowning”
stevie smith - spoken word
max richter - “a catalog of afternoons” - composer
f. jurden - keys/production
alan cross - videography
“this man refused to open his eyes”
f. jurden - composer/keys
mike bernard - videography
“a bird made of birds”
sarah kay - spoken word
max richter - “sunlight” composer
f. jurden - keys/production
jack minor - videography
on the playground
Audio: Spitfire Audio’s String Quartet, Felt Instrument’s Blisko Cello, Spitfire Audio’s British Drama Toolkit, and samples from a Casio CT30, a vintage glockenspiel, and field recordings of children on a playground in the Netherlands. Light post production.
detroit remix
Audio: A remix / re-orchestration of a composition by Disasterpeace for the film “It Follows.” The original is here. This remix was built with Arturia’s Augmented Strings; Blisko String Collection; Spitfire Audio’s Abbey Road One; Valhalla VintageVerb.
drone #15
Audio: Moog Model 15; Valhalla Delay; crunchy tape goodness from Aberrant DSP SketchCassette II.
model 15 mood
Video: Highlight reel of work by Sir Roger Deakins ripped from Cinema Gems on Instagram.
Audio: Moog Model 15; Valhalla Delay; crunchy tape goodness from Aberrant DSP SketchCassette II.
sunset
Video: Ripped from CBC archive on youtube.
Audio: Composition by Boards of Canada (adapted &edited); Arturia Prophet-5 V; vintage post-production vibes from Valhalla Delay and SketchCassette II from Aberrant DSP.
shinjuku fugue
Video: Ripped from the inspired work of Adam Magyar on vimeo.
Audio: Fugue Machine into Augmented Grand Piano by Arturia and TAL Juno emulation; some EQ and a touch of Valhalla Delay.
it was all just a dream
Video: Ripped and heavily edited version of “Mick Jenkins Truffles” on vimeo.
Audio: Blisko String Collection; Spitfire Audio’s String Quartet; prob too much reverb.
distant voices
Video: Ripped and heavily edited from vimeo.
Audio: Output’s Arcade; Arturia’s Augmented Strings, Augmented Voices, and Moog Mini; Spitfire Audio’s String Quartet; lots of post production, too.
icelandic overture
Video: Ripped from youtube.
Audio: Arturia’s Jup-8 V and Tape Mello-Fi; Valhalla DSP’s Supermassive.
ava
I cut out scenes from the sci-fi masterwork Ex Machina and re-scored and re-edited the trailer.
Video: Edited from the Ex Machina trailer on youtube.com.
Audio: TAL Sampler from the very fine folks at TAL Software; light post production.
across the universe
a (very) short film.
Audio: Sampled felted piano (Native Instruments’ Noire), sampled strings.
Video: Stolen from Vimeo (with lots of edits).
mean streets
Audio: Slate and Ash Cycles; Valhalla Supermassive.
Video: Pieces assembled from video I swiped with pride from Daniel Mcilwraith called “Slow / Motion” on Vimeo.com.
the arrival
imagine this piece would complement one of those sci-fi movies where the aliens make contact with us.
This piece started life as a very different piece of music. Originally, it was a jaunty throw-away sketch built around some rhythmic echoes on electric guitar. On a whim, I ran it thru Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch, software that slows down an audio clip but preserves the original pitch. I like the drama that the transformation created and how you can’t really tell it’s just a guitar slowed waaaay down.
Video: Ripped from youtube.
Audio: Electric guitar; post production with Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch.
waiting
This piece is actually built from mostly “found” parts: I tweaked/mashed up video from vimeo and combined that with a drone sample found on Soundcloud. I manipulated the audio sample and added in performance elements.
Audio: Prophet 12 synthesizer, sampled audio, lots of post production.
Video: Adapted without shame from the inspired work of Adam Magyar on vimeo.
a dark welcome
Audio: Prophet 12 synth, string samples and drum loops from Logic Pro X.
Video: Stolen (and heavily edited) from vimeo.
round and round
Audio: Scalar 2 Electric Piano; Valhalla Super Massive; Spitfire Audio Abbey Road One and BBC Symphony.
almost lost
Audio: Arturia’s Augmented Strings; Spitfire Audio’s Abbey Road One, Contemporary Drama Toolkit, British Drama Toolkit, and String Quartet.
soundtrack for an exit scene
Audio: Felt Instruments Blisko Cello & Viloa; trumpets and trombones from Spitfire Audio’s BBC Symphony Orchestra and Epic Strings; u-he Repro-5 synth.
voxes
Audio: Digital choir in Logic’s Sampler instrument, strings from Felt Instruments and Spitfire Audio Labs.
eno’s choir take #359
Brian Eno’s Ambient 1/Music for Airports is one of my all-time favs (I am not alone in this sentiment). The album is noted for both its artistic and technical achievements. Technically, for the song “2/1”, Eno placed several tape machines around a room, each playing a single vocal sample on a loop of tape. Each loop was slightly different length and so the subtle travel-time differences created by different loop lengths meant the loops were not always in sync.
The voices are sometimes solo while at other times they combine with other loops to form a chord. The loops are all playing the same notes over and over, but the melody constantly evolves.
The fine folk at reverbmachine.com wrote a lovely piece deconstructing this song, and provided the vocal stems in the firm belief that fans would remix it. :)
After many attempts to make something personal, my remix ended up not too far from the original, at least at the start.
an ending
For a dramatic/triumphant exit sequence (I love the little break down in the middle around 0:22).
Audio: Stock strings, horns, loops in Logic Pro.
“Were I capable of composing the ballads of a nation I need not write its laws.”