This week’s selection is the music that accompanies the introductory cinematic for the iOS/Android game Wizard Ops. The developers crafted an elaborate backstory to the game, which manifests as a series of mini-movies. I used a “crazy” trill figure in the clarinet to characterize the Mad Maker, the wizards’ nemesis. I have a feeling we’ll be facing him in forthcoming installments of the game!

If you’d like to hear the music in context, dig up 99 gold pieces… er, cents… and head over to iOS app store.


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	Wizards’ Plight

Here’s the main theme from “Wizard Ops”, a newly-released sorcerous game for your iOS (or soon, Android) gadget of choice.

I was really jazzed when I saw the game’s concept art months ago, and the musical approach suggested itself almost immediately: a rollicking but quirky scherzo, a sort of hyperactive cousin to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice or the Uranus movement of Holst’s Planets. Supernaturally adventurous, but slightly disgruntled, like the game’s protagonist.

If you’d like to hear the music in context, then levitate on over to iOS app store and check it out!


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	Wizard Ops (Main Theme)

In slightly belated celebration of Halloween, a disquieting atmospheric cue featuring muted strings and agitated percussion.


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	Darkmoon Marsh

Time to get your trebuchet back from the shop! This week’s music selection is an orchestral battle cue, slowly growing from a cello-and-timpani rhythm into a full symphonic sound.

p.s. For some reason, my spellchecker doesn’t recognize the word “trebuchet”, and asked me if I meant to type “Bucharest”.

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	Battle For The West

It’s just another happy day on a 1970s TV quiz show… or is it?

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	These Fabulous Prizes

It’s been raining here in Southern California, which means that something unnatural must be afoot. In this spirit, this week’s selection is some dramatic science fiction music with larger-than-life implications.

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	Mothership Flyover

This week’s selection is a short, disquieting film cue wherein I tried to make a vibraphone sound creepy.


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	Watching Liz