16
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “Birth of Empires”
Ah, the early stages of a war game. The mood is optimistic. We haven’t yet heard the blood-curdling screams of onscreen avatars (and real-life players).... Read More
09
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “Warriors of Tenochtitlan”
The title above is a bit of a cheat, since in Empires Apart this music represents all meso-American cultures rather than strictly the Aztecs. (Tenochtitlan... Read More
02
March
2018
Cue of the Week: “From Fields to Towns”
Empires Apart, launching this month, is a real-time strategy game that revisits the genre with beautiful stylized visuals. RTS games start peacefully, as the player... Read More
16
February
2018
Cue of the Week: “Driving While Inspired”
Sometimes the flow of a film requires a very short musical cue. These are surprisingly tricky to write. An entire scene may be emotionally defined... Read More
09
February
2018
Cue of the Week: “Craving Greatness (Opening Sequence)”
This weeks’s selection is a two-part cue that opens Stephanie Keefer’s film about the joys and struggles of the creative process. (I featured the closing... Read More
19
January
2018
Cue of the Week: “Write On”
When my friend and collaborator Stephanie Keefer approached me about her quasi-autobiographical film about inspiration and the creative process, I immediately became excited. A mere... Read More
16
January
2018
Music recommendation: Kikimora (Anatoly Liadov)
Anatoly Liadov didn’t write much for orchestra, but I’m very fond of the works he did create. In Slavic mythology, a Kikimora is a kind... Read More
05
January
2018
Cue of the Week: “Egon Escapes”
Happy New Year! We’re back after a holiday break spent… well, mostly in the studio. (Occupational hazard.) This week’s selection comes from an interactive title... Read More
08
December
2017
Cue of the Week: “The Shaman”
Some film music cues are melodic and hummable, others more atmospheric. When writing an ambient cue, such as this disquieting accompaniment from the film Healers,... Read More
01
December
2017
Cue of the Week: “A Dark Discovery”
This week’s music includes a happy accident, sonically speaking. While scoring a suspense film called Healers, I found an old mandolin sample whose file had... Read More
