This short piano cue from the film Home Room is loosely imitative of the ticking of the clock, the specific visual which the music accompanies. I could have adopted a closer imitation by setting the tempo to a clocklike 60bpm, but the pacing of the scene required something a bit lighter on its feet. (Plus, I wanted to be transparent rather than cutesy.)

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	The Clock

Most of the music for the film Against Time was orchestral, but a few guitar-driven cues reflect more personal or homey moments. This folksy/bluesy piece introduces the film’s opening baseball sequence. Every instrument (except kick drum and shaker) performed by guitar-monger Tom Strahle.

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	Field Work

“Boss” here is meant in the sense of final opponent of a video game level rather than overseer of employees, though I suppose the two aren’t mutually exclusive. This drum-and-choral-driven cue from the game Wizard Ops: Chapter One accompanies a climactic dual with an unusually large and vengeful limbless enemy.

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	The Worm Boss

Wrapping up the series of music selections from Touché: A Blind Fencer’s Story, this cue falls towards the end of the documentary. Fencer Catherine Bolton makes breakthroughs in vision recovery, suddenly seeing a level of visual detail that had been denied to her since the onset of her condition. It’s hard not to get a little misty-eyed at the moment. I kept the music accompanimental, so as not to intrude on a scene already so rich with with emotion.

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	New Sight

This piece’s title probably suggests Smith and Wesson firearms, but the scene is actually about blindfolds. These are the means by which sight-impaired fencers insure a fair competition, putting them on equal (albeit highly challenging) ground.

The music, for solo cello with piano, accompanies Catherine Bolton’s reflecting upon her first panicky experience with a blindfold – an initial step on her path towards championship in this unusual sport.

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	The Great Equalizer