Alexander Schiebel, Composer – XANDERSCORES.COM – Film and Media Music Online Composition

My contribution to the Lara Croft Composing Challenge

2018-04-22 Alexander S.News

Tom Holkenborg a.k.a. Junkie XL has called for another #NowScoreThis composing challenge. This time the task is to come up with a theme for a particular incarnation of Lara Croft. I searched the internet for[…]

Ladyhawke Alternate Score in Numbers

2018-04-10 Alexander S.Ladyhawke

Now that composing the Ladyhawke alternate score is finished, it’s time to look back. Here’s some numbers about the project: The total running time of the movie is 1 hour 58 minutes (118 minutes). The[…]

How I compose music – pt. 04: musical vision

2018-04-10 Alexander S.Advice

This is part 3 of a series on my modus operandi as a music composer. This time we’re going into musical vision. Naturally this is something that’s beyond words, but I’ll try to explain it[…]

Alternate score for Ladyhawke finished composing

2018-04-082018-04-08 Alexander S.Ladyhawke

It’s done. I’ve finished composing and mixing the Ladyhawke alternate orchestral score that I’ve been working on for the last 3 months. I will gather some facts and numbers about the process to share with[…]

How I compose music – pt. 03: Templates

2018-04-012018-04-12 Alexander S.Advice

Before we go into musical vision, I’d like to share with you some aspects of preparation, particularly two templates that I use. 1. Orchestral MIDI Template The template which is the most important for me[…]

How I compose music – pt. 02: Timing is everything

2018-03-20 Alexander S.Advice

I can’t imagine how burdensome it must have been for composers in the 20th century to estimate and calculate timing and tempo and then conduct the orchestra in a way that hits all the sync[…]

How I compose music – pt. 01: DAW or paper

2018-03-142018-03-19 Alexander S.Advice

Originally I had planned to do a single blog post about my modus operandi as a composer. However, there have been quite a number of questions after I announced this, so I decided to split[…]

Ladyhawke themes and motifs

2018-03-052018-03-05 Alexander S.Ladyhawke

So far I have not lost many words about my alternate Ladyhawke score. Now that I’m half way through I thought I’d give you some background info on the major themes. These are the themes[…]

Interview on SideShowSound

2018-02-272018-02-27 Alexander S.News

I’m proud and overwhelmed at the same time that I have been interviewed already twice during the last 3 months, most recently by the wonderful Ian Crabb at SideShowSound whose new episode you can find[…]