This blog apologizes, in its most sincere blog voice, for the hiatus in content. Its composer has had a very busy month.

This week’s selection is the opening theme for the film Emerald, Texas (premiering at the Riverside International Film Festival in April). Two girls walk along a dusty Kansas road to that most hated place, high school.

Nylon-string guitar courtesy of Kyle Johnson.

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	Dee and T

Another melancholy cue this week (no reflection of my personal mood), again in an orchestral vein but from a different film. For the opening passage I channeled my inner Kenny G and wrote a soprano sax solo.

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	Alone in the City

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)