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Written as my final project during the film scoring intensive at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana during the summer of 2023. This cue, written to a scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, won the “best original score” prize, given to one piece at the culmination of the program. The scene shows the evolution of humanity from monkey-like proto humans to explorers of space. One pre human discovers tool-making in the act of beating another to death with a bone. As the bone, tossed into the air in triumph becomes an orbiting spacecraft, it's implied that progress comes at a cost. Thanks to the Orchestra Della Toscana for the performance, and and Marco Streccioni, Tim Starnes, Mattia Cella for engineering/mixing assistance.
April 30, 2023
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Written as my first project during the film scoring intensive at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana during the summer of 2023. This scene depicts the final struggle between Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in the movie There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Daniel is deranged from the start of this scene to the finish, but to me there's an element of ritual performance to the rhythms in his screaming violence, maybe a little “rite of spring”. I wrote something to play to and highlight the rhythms already present in the actors’ performance, a menacing folk dance. Thanks to Antonio Pellegrino, Nataliya Nykolayshyn, Bruno Pucci, Luca Pincini, and Massimo Ceccarelli for the performance, and Marco Streccioni, Tim Starnes, Mattia Cella for engineering/mixing assistance.
April 30, 2023
The second release (first as a band) from a new project Mud Hen, which I am a part of along with Matthew An and Vigilance Brandon. We recorded this album completely remotely over the course of almost a year, with track ideas or drafts uploaded in unfinished states, and then fleshed out bit by bit by other members. The album features all of us playing a variety of instruments, with tracks written and mixed by Matthew and Vigilance. Thanks to Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio for the master.
August 23, 2023