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Everyone has to start somewhere… – Guess the score!

2018-04-26 Alexander S.News

When I was around 15, I started making music with synthesizers. At the same time I was very much into pen&paper role-playing games and I watched literally every fantasy movie I could get my hands[…]

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Happy Birthday Richard Donner!

2018-04-23 Alexander S.Ladyhawke

Dear Mr. Donner, it sounds clichéd, but you are basically the director of my childhood. You frightened me with The Omen, you showed me what Superman actually looked like, you made me want to be[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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