This week’s music comes from the film My Nanny Stole My Life, a psychological thriller about a new mom whose hired help turns out to be decidedly sub-par. This atmospheric cue accompanies a melancholic moment with photos of a lost family member.
The harp holds court for most of the cue, though a pair of this score’s signature instrument (bass flute) chime in towards the end.
Here’s a medley of two related score cues from the feature film Home Room. Both passages feature lyrical woodwind solos against strings, harp and piano, creating a mood that I’d describe as “cautious hope”. The zero-percent-digital, all-live ensemble provided a wonderfully lush recording.
If you’d like to hear the whole album, you can stream it from Spotify, YouTube, et al, or party like a Habsburg and buy it on BandCamp.
I was delighted to write music for the VR game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City, supplementing a groovalicious 90s techno score by Alex May. The fruits of that musical collaboration is now available on SoundCloud for your listening enjoyment!
This week’s cue comes from the score album for the film Home Room. In the accompanying scene, Alicia Browning (Busy Philipps) contemplates her image in a bathroom mirror, having washed off blood from a tragic incident at her school.
The sustained tones in the background would typically be played on a synth, but I recorded a more organic, live-performance alternative: plastic tubes swung overhead. The resulting hollow sound felt perfect for a scene about numbness and detachment.
A fun location in the turn-based strategy game Wizard Ops Tactics was its colorful weapons shop. I wanted the music to maintain the “grumpy magic-user” personality of the store (and game as a whole) so used a lot of orchestral color — slurring low strings, pecking woodwinds, and other impish sonics.
This week’s cue comes from the recently-released score album for the film Home Room, wherein Alicia Browning (Busy Philipps) attempts to spring a friend from a psychiatric hospital.
The scene has a somewhat impish tone, so I picked instrumentation that was brighter than the moodier palette I’d used thus far in the score. Featured are twelve-string guitar, hammered dulcimer, an African percussive instrument called an udu and other percussive goodies. All played by living breathing human beings!
(And yes, the title is a weak pun on the actor’s name.)
I’m excited to be composing “Songs of the Shattered Empire”, the official musical accompaniment for the highly-anticipated Deathbringer fantasy TTRPG! Grammy-winning engineer and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Brownlie will be aboard to sculpt the sonic mayhem.
As Mr. Deathbringer himself (er, itself?) says: “Recorded not for your delicate ears, but for the mountain of skulls I stand upon!” Click here for the unforgiving, axe-wielding details.
I was pleased that my score for Peter Hanson’s film “Someone Else” was nominated for Best Score at Indie Short Fest! The film will screen in a number of festivals in Los Angeles in the coming months.
