12
November
2010
Cue of the Week: “The Bedroom”
This week’s selection was underscore for a steamy bedroom scene. The onscreen action was more psychological rather than physical, and so the music’s job was... Read More
05
November
2010
Cue of the Week: “Departing Friends”
This week’s selection is a busy but sad-stalgic piece for piano and strings. (Sometimes you just need to invent an adjective.) (Click on the play... Read More
29
October
2010
Cue of the Week: “The Killer Whale”
One more scary cue for Halloween! This one is more of a family-friendly kind of scariness, rather than something you’d hear in a film about... Read More
22
October
2010
Cue of the Week: “Captured”
My goal for this cue was to make a harp sound scary. This might seem like a tall order given the instrument’s angelic associations, but... Read More
12
October
2010
Identity Concerto album recording
Album recording has been completed for Identity: Zhongshan Zuang, concerto for guzheng (Chinese zither) and orchestra. The United Musicians Symphony of Los Angeles, led by... Read More
08
October
2010
Cue of the Week: “Encounter”
Continuing the theme of creepy music for October: from Aaron Simms’ supernatural thriller Vermilion, this underscore accompanied the final run-in with a painting come to... Read More
01
October
2010
Cue of the Week: “Flashback”
Continuing the theme of creepy music through Holloween: This week’s selection features Native American flutes, bowed prayer bowls, a spring drum, and an unusual instrument... Read More
24
September
2010
Cue of the Week: “Confronting the Beast”
Continuing our creepy music theme, this week’s selection begins with a disquieting ambient passage and transitions into a frenetic orchestral climax. The music makes use... Read More
17
September
2010
Cue of the Week: “Things in the Dark”
As the title implies, this weeks’s selection is a dark and ambient musical atmosphere. Pulsing brass in their lowest register and woodwind trills help usher... Read More
03
September
2010
Cue of the Week: “Escape at the Airfield”
Written back when I was a wee composer of 25, this action cue accompanies a daring airplane escape sequence in the film The F-Zone. Using... Read More