Cue of the Week: Building the Bat

Here's the next cue in the Against Time series. This is my take on "teenage genius busy at work inventing a futuristic basebat bat" music. Yes, that old cliche.

The music was written for orchestra, piano, acoustic guitar, bowed vibraphone, electric bass, and - you guessed it - tabla. I'd like to say that the eclecticism of the instruments represented some sort of high-fallutin' musical analogue to the fast-working inventive mind of Ean Merig's character... but honestly, I just liked those particular instrumental colors.

Sadly, the tabla is a bit buired in the mix; hopefully I'll be able to coax it out again for the soundtrack version.

Building the Bat

Cue of the Week: Farewell to Dad

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Against Time (formerly All Over Again), I'm going to be featuring a few music cues from the film.

After an introductory passage, this sentiemental piece reprises one of my personal favorite melodies in the score, the father-son theme for Craig T. Nelson and Ean Merrig's characters. (What specific pathos underlies these sentimental strains? You'll have to watch the film to find out.)

Farewell To Dad

Cue of the Week: The Frontier

This week's selection is an old-fashioned orchestral cowboy movie overture. Granted, nobody has yet asked me to score an old-fashioned cowboy movie, but when they do, I aim to be ready.

I'm not sure anyone makes cowboy movies anymore - at least not with the epic spirit of those from the 50s and 60s. There was a brief resurgence of the Western movie tradition in the 80s and early 90s, but I suspect that today there's less of a perceived market for adventure movies that don't make heavy use of CGI.

But I digress. Here's this week's music, uh, pardner.

The Frontier