18
May
2012
Cue of the Week: “A Triumphant Exit”
This week’s selection is a happy march from an interactive story. It’s been a number of years and the details are a bit foggy, but... Read More
04
May
2012
Cue of the Week: “The Windswept Fields”
This week’s selection is an ambient musical atmosphere evoking wheat stalks gently swaying under blue skies. (I’ll leave it up to you as to whether... Read More
27
April
2012
Cue of the Week: “The Storm Gathers”
This week’s selection, which also currently accompanies the splash page of my website, is a dark and melodic orchestral cue with a hint of otherworldly... Read More
20
April
2012
Cue of the Week: “Leaving the Ranch”
This week’s selection is actually a combo of two orchestral cues from successive scenes in a film: a late-night research session fraught with unexpected discovery,... Read More
13
April
2012
Cue of the Week: “An Otherworldly Revenge”
In honor of Friday the 13th, here’s some chilling and supernaturally-flavored music from the climax of Cleve Nettles’ forthcoming film Healers. This cue features a... Read More
06
April
2012
Cue of the Week: “Groove Pastiche”
If you’re a composer for hire, every now and then you have to write something like this. It’s a guilty pleasure. Non, je ne regrette... Read More
23
March
2012
Cue of the Week: “The Uninvited Guest”
This week’s selection is a wry and somewhat French-flavored solo piano cue. I took a few editorial liberties with this “album” version of the music,... Read More
16
March
2012
Cue of the Week: “The Cram Session”
An all-night study montage is musically depicted with mallet instruments, solo string pizzicato, and other pleasant eccentricities. (Click on the play button to stream, or... Read More
17
February
2012
Cue of the Week: “A Place of Memories”
Guzheng soloist Su Chang displays a sensitive command of her instrument in this haunting passage with harp, strings, and bass clarinet. This is an excerpt... Read More
10
February
2012
Cue of the Week: “The Return”
Here’s a third excerpt from my concert piece Identity: Zhongshan Zhuang, a concerto for guzheng and orchestra. Like the other excerpts, this section of the... Read More