The first fruit of my labor at my new job–arranging, music programming and orchestrating for Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil–has been released. “Teufelskicker” (Devil’s Kicker) opened #4 in Germany last weekend, and the soundtrack CD is for sale. I am proud to share one writing credit with Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil, for track 15, [...]
Below is a time-lapse nature music video highlighting the MP3 “Age of Innocence” using my amateur photography of Los Angeles: The extremely talented Ian Maksin is featured on this track, which is available for download here.
I did the music for Andrew Lehman’s “Neoteny and Human Evolution” video, RT ~10 mins: Andrew reaches a very interesting theory towards the end of the video. Check out his work on evolutionary theory at Neoteny.org. I will be uploading an edited version of the music in mp3 format soon.
I recently completed the score for the trailer to Yi Soon Shin, a comic by Onrie Kompan: The mp3 is available here. Please visit the Yi Soon Shin Website for more information about the comic, it’s very good!
My MFA orchestral thesis score for the short film Head Case is available online. Download the tracks here: Vine and Ring Themes, HC Opening, Harold Emerges, Garden Alarm, and Tools Theme. The session was an amazing experience, recorded by LA’s top musicians on the same scoring stage that they record Lost and Fringe, at L.A. [...]
I’ve finished the score for Carolyn Okafor’s independent feature, A Man’s Image. One track is available for download, A Man’s Image Opening. The movie will be screened at the DuSable Museum of African American History on October 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM.
In Logic, often when I import a MIDI file from Finale, Finale puts volume data all over the place and the fader in the mixer bounces up and down as a result. I wanted an easy way to convert this data to expression data so that I could regain control of my fader. There are [...]
Ever since I heard that Guitar Hero World Tour’s drums were velocity sensitive, I wanted to try using them as MIDI controllers. Thanks to this post by Camille, developer of OSCulator, I finally got the Wii World Tour drums to work with velocity sensitivity. Unfortunately, as the video demonstrates, they don’t work too well. Either [...]
I upgraded the XSPF player to a hugely improved version I found here: http://www.boutell.com/xspf/ Now, as you surf the site, the music will auto-resume to where you left off. Also, if you stop the music, it remains stopped as you surf other pages or come back to my site later. The enhanced XSPF player also [...]
I fixed several songs that were stuttering and changing pitch in the flash music player. It turns out several of the mp3s were 48k instead of 44.1k, which were incompatible with the player. Thanks to Phil for notifying me.