24
October
2014
Cue of the Week: “The Killer Whale”
This week’s selection is a dramatic orchestral crescendo for the antagonist in The Penguin Who Wouldn’t Swim. (To be fair, the whale was just hungry.)... Read More
10
October
2014
Cue of the Week: “Ice Floe Finale”
Here’s another cue from The Penguin Who Wouldn’t Swim – actually one of my composites, where I sneakily edit together multiple cues in order to... Read More
03
October
2014
Cue of the Week: “The Tension Mounts”
This week’s cue is a tense (in a storybook sort of way) orchestral passage from a project fairy early in my career, The Penguin Who... Read More
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
