The sweet siren song beckoning me to become more professional has come. All musical updates and a much larger array of film and music samples can now be found at my new site at hawkinsmusic.com. Come on over and enjoy the party over there.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
My Very First Scoring Session to Film: March 25th 2013
Note: If the video above doesn't play, here is the link to it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiAvmKhKJo0&feature=youtu.be
Since enrolling at the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, I've written countless pieces and prepared for a real scoring session where I would decide the important points of the scene, decide the musical materials, tempo, and the like, then write the music, compose a pad pre-record, write the parts, sync it all up for recording, mark up the video for synchronization, and conduct the thing, making all the final decisions. Well, here is my first real output.
This movie is "Cane". We are to score the opening sequence that you see here. Consider this the finished project. I will soon produce a version with the timecode and streamers.
Special thanks first and foremost to Hummie Mann, Tim Huling, Reed Ruddy for engineering the recording at Studio X in Seattle, WA, all of my colleagues who provided immense feedback, and to Claire Hawkins, without whom none of this would have taken place.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Brass Percussion Piano Session Final Edit
It's a chase scene in a virtuosic, 50's-60's style. Lots of piano, lots of brass effects and lots of extended percussion techniques. It may not get my hired anywhere but it was super fun to write and I learned a lot about these instruments, having made a few adjustments on the podium.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Brass, Percussion, Piano Chase Music: Recorded March 6th, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Woodwind Session Final Edit
Enjoy the listen!
Friday, February 8, 2013
Woodwind Recording Session: February 6th, 2013
It calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, and 1 bassoon. The players were awesome and I was tickled with the outcome. Of special note is that all of the chords are related chromatically. They don't have a classical relationship to each other but are related often by thirds. Some jazz players refer to this as chromatic mediant progressions, but in this case it's not always by a third. I've included the score in the video and it follows the notes on the track.
Special thanks to Sean Osborn, Robin Peery, Alicia Suarez, and others whom I didn't see because I, for work reasons, couldn't even be there! Special thanks also to Hummie Mann and my fellow students who did production work in the booth on this one.
Friday, January 18, 2013
First Film Score Recording Final Edit
Special changes include a different ending, an edited fast section, additional room mics, reverb added to the spots, and some other magic.
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