This week’s cue is a melancholy and nostalgic piece for piano, strings, and winds.

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	The Cemetery

A companion to last week’s Ice Arena cue, this is an atmospheric and mysterious piece with frigid overtones. (Given Southern California’s record low temperatures this week, this music particularly resonates with me right now.)

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	Icy Confrontation

The game Hex: Shards of Fate recently launched a big expansion, so I thought it might be nice to feature some of the new music that accompanies it. This week’s cue (special Saturday edition) is for a foreboding ice battleground.

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	The Ice Arena

This week’s cue is a quirky rhythmic piece for mallet percussion and assorted oddball instruments, meant to evoke the daily grind of life in antiquity. Let it never be said that an anvil can’t be musical.

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	The Industrious Villagers

This blog has been on hiatus for several weeks while I was working on a new film project. Now that crunch time is past, the music flow resumes!

This week’s selection comes from one of my earliest feature projects, a political thriller called The F-Zone. We recorded with a union orchestra at the then-very-busy O’Henry studios. (The Star Trek TNG theme was recorded there, among other things.) The studio is sadly now defunct, though its website lives on as a kind of memorial.

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	The F-Zone (main title)

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.)

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	The Killer Whale

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 make them seem like one long, more-interesting cue. This music accompanies the game’s dramatic finale.

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	Ice Floe Finale

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 Wouldn’t Swim. The music accompanies an episode where the titular penguin has been swept out to sea on a stray block of ice.

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	The Tension Mounts