Russian Folk Song: Katyusha I recently responded to a request for an instrumental Russian folk song. So I searched for an upbeat folk song with a catchy melody. And the one I settled on is […]
To a Higher Plane I have been subscribing to a music A&R (Artist and Repertoire) company, TAXI.com. This company supplies music tracks to production music libraries, record labels, and film and TV producers. TAXI.com regularly […]
In the Name of God I have been working with two wonderful filmmakers at the London-based G22 Studios; Stephen Noorshargh and Sulymaan Hameed. They filmed a 22-minute, beautiful tale of morality titled “In the Name of […]
Escher Stairs: A Musical Analogue I have been working with Jason Sherman on a film titled “Cutting Corners”. It is an activist documentary about builders and contractors cutting corners while building new structures in Philadelphia. […]
Escape from the Morons; for Video Game My son has been editing video game playbacks, putting video game clips against music. He loves the game “Escape from Tarkov”, and asked that I compose similar music. […]
Film Score for Credits I recently finished scoring a documentary film, “Cutting Corners”. This film is produced by Jason Sherman, of Delphia Entertainment. The film is about unscrupulous developers and contractors who demolish and construct […]
High Eagle I was recently asked to try my hand composing a background score for an introductory portion of an upcoming film titled “High Eagle”. The film is a documentary about Jerry Elliot, a physicist, […]
Mysterious Theme I composed this short piece simply as an exercise at a different style. A set of ostinatos serve as a background accompaniment. The foreground melody is played by English horn, then clarinet and […]
Spaghetti Western Back in December, 2020, I composed a pair of short cues, that I labeled “Creepy Western”. Now, I have expanded one of them, that had been titled “Suspenseful Prelude”. In honor of the […]
Joyful Jam In preparation for the “Global Game Jam” in January, 2022, I played with a tune that I titled “Joyful Jam.” This is a moderately cheerful tune, primarily electronic, with a few organic instruments […]
DualKitty For the “Global Game Jam” in January, 2022, I contributed music tracks to the game “DualKitty” (about 90% of the music used in the game) The theme for this Global Game Jam was “Duality”. […]
Melancholy Ivories This short cue is in response to a request for submissions to TAXI, an A&R company. The request was for a cinematic-based piano underscore cue. In other words, it should be primarily piano, […]