Cue of the Week: Birthday Girl

Sometimes you just gotta funk.

Birthday Girl

Cue of the Week: Study Montage

A short but sweet cue from The F-Zone accompanying a late-night research montage. In the film the protagonist had just returned from a trip to a ranch, and during the scoring process I had just finished writing music for those scenes. I think therefore both the hero's frame of mind and mine were reflected by the lingering traces of Americana in the music for this scene.

Study Montage

Cue of the Week: The Hospital

This week's selection is one of the darker cues from The F-Zone. This music employs a scale called the Lydian mode, which is usually associated with a happy or heroic mood. However, here the register and instrumentation of the melody bring out the ominous and somewhat alien character of the mode. Just goes to show that scales, like people, often have multiple facets to their personality.

There's one more anecdote I can share about this cue. The piano was played by a studio musician named Randy Waldman. However, my contractor made a slip of the tongue and told me he'd booked Randy Newman. I was young enough at the time to think this was likely, and for a brief while was very excited indeed.

The Hospital