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Underscore for a montage of actually cooking the fated dish, Coq-au-vin
The End Credits piece for my thesis, Coq-au-vin
The music for the opening sequence of 'Coq-au-vin,' the film I scored for my thesis
The time between Katie's discovery of being left behind and deciding to kill the chicken, leading up to and through the actual act.
A scene from 'Age of Innocence' in which John (?) confesses his love for the main lady, who is married, even though he himself is engaged to someone else. Woodwinds, strings. live solo cello.
Yet another awkward tub scene from 'Birth'...this time scored for solo violin (live) and harp.
Ah...this was an assignment for class to score a reeeaaally awkward scene in a movie called 'Birth'...scored for harp, flutes, and pizz strings.
Another dance from last semester: a girl catches a bird, kills it, and then 'transmogrifies' into a bird herself and flies off.
As an exercise in using rhythm to build tension, my professor gave us a melody that we were to repeat at least four times, changing the rhythmic accompaniment while keeping the melody sounding like it's in two-four.
Strings, brass, woodwinds. Brass are live. The assignment was for sad, tragedy, but I didn't pay quite as much attention to that as I should have. :-)
This was a piece for my Practicum: Thesis Development class, written for orchestra to a scene from the French New Wave film 'The 400 Blows.'
A young man in his late twenties sits by a creek, thinking about his past and the girl who has been his best friend since childhood. Scored for oboe and string quintet (oboe live, strings MIDI).
Score for the climatic chase scene in 'Bullitt.'
Our final project for Writing for Science fiction, fantasy, and horror was to score another 3-min scene from a Twilight Zone episode. I chose the end of 'Invaders.' Same/similar instrumentation as Jerry Goldsmith used in the original.
This exciting piece of music scores a fast-paced chase of a breaking-and-entering team on motorcycles by a cop who finally found their trail.
This hypnotic piece was a study in movement in what Laban dancers term 'spell drive,' in which time is absent (doesn't change).
This is for the opening scene of an animatic I was working on last year. The main characters are a three-legged girl named Peanut and a one-legged giant named Pumpkinsmile.
This piece for an ensemble of flute, bass clarinet, marimba, vibes, harp, piano, viola, and double bass scores a dance depicting a young girl's dream in which she meets a sentient tree.
Not quite my vision for the song...but it's a live recording, and right now it's the best I have. My mom did okay on the violin, the pianist...well, she tried. :-)
For Global Folk Traditions, I had to score a short documentary about the making of a sword using a small Western ensemble with five soloists from the Middle East and China: Duduk (Armenia), Ney (I forget...), Erhu (China), Rubab (Afghanistan), and Ou
Ditto Psycho Orch, but pieces by Faith and Perishetti in the style of Elmer Bernstein for To Kill a Mockingbird. Scenes: Boo Radley's House and Sound in the Night.
For my Film Orchestration class, we were to arrange two Bartok pieces in the style of Bernard Herrmann for two scenes from Psycho: The City and Patrol Car. This is my attempt.
Class assignment--provide underscore for scene from John Guare's 'Lydie Breeze.' Live performance!!
The idea for this piece began forming at a friend's wedding a couple of months ago. It is a delightful mix of instruments depicting the love at a wedding ceremony.
Written for my mother's birthday. Not the best mixing job, but good music.

