26
September
2014
Cue of the Week: “Shauna”
My penchant for underdog instruments comes out in this lyrical-then-rather-violent suspense cue from a short film by David Kiang. The melody is given to an... Read More
19
September
2014
Cue of the Week: “Honor and Steel”
There’s an unspoken rule that all fantasy battle music must include the sound of an anvil. Who am I to defy tradition? (Click on the... Read More
05
September
2014
Cue of the Week: “The Cards are Dealt”
One of several battle cues from the digital card game / MMO Hex: Shards of Fate. Although the cards used in gameplay can represent anything... Read More
22
August
2014
Cue of the Week: “Zack”
In the film Against Time, a mysterious visitor from the furniture issues a teenager a dire warning about a terrible mistake he’s yet to make.... Read More
15
August
2014
Cue of the Week: “Day at the Museum”
Ah, the peaceful times before the mutant birds attacked, dive-bombing innocent people and exploding without explanation. This week’s cue, from Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, expresses... Read More
08
August
2014
Cue of the Week: “The Vennen”
This week’s cue is another faction theme from the game Hex: Shards of Fate. This music is for the nefarious Vennen, an orc-spider hybrid race... Read More
01
August
2014
Cue of the Week: “Two Girls”
From the the film Home Room, a moody piece accompanying a dissolve between two film’s two protagonists (played by Erika Christensen and Busy Phillips, respectively)... Read More
18
July
2014
Cue of the Week: “The Necrotic”
This week’s selection is an otherworldly choir of voices for one of the races in Hex: Shards of Fate – in this case, an undead... Read More
11
July
2014
Cue of the Week: “Breakdown”
This dramatic cue from the film Home Room features strings, piano, and one of the signature solo instruments of that score, bass flute. (Click on... Read More
27
June
2014
Cue of the Week: “Advance of the Orcs”
Many fantasy-themed games lovingly pilfer from Tolkien and add orcs to their indigenous species. In Hex: Shards of Fate the orcs are a comparatively benevolent... Read More