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June 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Reckless Mice”

In the game Escaping Wonderland, the player needs to negotiate with several teen mice who have adopted a rather risk-indifferent lifestyle. (The visualization of which is rather amusing; play the game if you’d like to experience it firsthand!)

This week’s music accompanies the mice with a dark carnival tune, emphasizing the comedic side of an incautious lifestyle.

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June 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Estate Explorations”

This week’s music selection from Escaping Wonderland accompanies the mischievous puzzle-solving happenings in the game’s estate biome.

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06
June 2025
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Cue of the Week: “I’m Not Sure That’s Entirely Safe”

Continuing the exploration of the Escaping Wonderland soundtrack, this week’s music selection accompanies a region inhabited by rebellious teen mice. Specifically, they’re rebelling against basic safety precautions, casually lounging near burning stoves, mouse traps, etc. Needless to say, their mom is concerned.

The score reflects their blasé attitude with a quasi-vaudevillian mood and theme for solo whistler.

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30
May 2025
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Cue of the Week: “Dig the Elevator, Baby”

The above title should really be “cue of the month”, as I’ve been tied up scoring a rather charming Christmas movie while this blog/newsletter/etc has been sadly neglected. That neglect ends today!

In the game Escaping Wonderland, available for finer virtual reality headsets everywhere, the player ascends by means of an elevator. Naturally the score includes elevator music, which was tremendously fun to write. (Owners of actual elevators, I am available for commissions.) This one takes inspiration from 1960s lounge pop.

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May 2025
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“A Chrismystery” score complete!

I’ve just finished scoring this charming romantic comedy, which will be coming your way around (you guessed it) Christmas. Along the way I discovered that this genre is great fun to work with musically. I even repurposed “Carol of the Bells” as a leitmotif for the central crime that takes place in the small-town setting.

Additional details and zeal later this year as the holiday season impends!

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