Let’s investigate with some detective/investigation music that follows quite a lot of different events. Listen to the music and read my commentary! The music starts slowly with some low piano and rhythmic elements as Batman (still in disguise) sneaks into Slapleather Smith’s wagon, searching for evidence. This is something that I love about… Continue reading Track by Track: The Dark Guardian 13 – Searching The Wagon
Tag: composition
Rescore Project finished: “Your Name”
I’m happy to share with you the final version of my latest rescore project, the 2016 anime Your Name, and also the story behind it: My daugther immediately fell in love with the book and the film and showed it to me. While we were watching she said in more than one instance that she… Continue reading Rescore Project finished: “Your Name”
Music Portfolio Overhaul
Every once in a while it’s time to fix what isn’t broken. With 2018 passing soon, I decided it was the perfect time to give my website a makeover. Especially the music portfolio page needed to be condensed. Now there’s a handful of projects with “Top 3” tracks to choose from and also a nice… Continue reading Music Portfolio Overhaul
New Release: “Faendalar”
I’m very happy to announce that my music for Faendalar has recently been released on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play Music, Tidal, Amazon Music & Co. Faendalar is one of my most beloved compositions, written in 1996 (when I was 22) for a 16-track Korg 01W synthesizer workstation – yes, no DAW back then. The music… Continue reading New Release: “Faendalar”
How I compose music – pt. 02: Timing is everything
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 points right. Fortunately my digital audio workstation (DAW) does it all for me. Well, not everything – there’s still a… Continue reading How I compose music – pt. 02: Timing is everything
Stranger Things Wrap-up
A few weeks ago I started composing an alternate orchestral score for some scenes from Stranger Things Season One. That’s been lots of fun, and I think I’ve learned quite a few things from this project! Now it’s over, and I’m moving on to the next project. I want to thank those of you who… Continue reading Stranger Things Wrap-up
Ladyhawke Progress
Since Christmas I’ve been busy composing an alternate score for one of my favorite films of all time: Ladyhawke (1985). I consider this project to be a valuable lesson and a great opportunity to practice, and I already realize in which areas the music comes natural and in which I kind of struggle. I’m not… Continue reading Ladyhawke Progress
Music for “Offline” Gaming
First of all, a big “Thank you” to all readers of this page. If my statistics are correct, there are already 400 people reading my posts. This is just awesome – thanks and please keep visiting! This time I’d like to highlight another works of mine, the ARACLIA Role-playing Game Music which I composed in… Continue reading Music for “Offline” Gaming
From Anton Bruckner to a White Wolf
Back in 1995, I watched a performance of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony #5 and I was so impressed that I wanted to compose something with equal gravitas and symphonic continuity. As a program for the music I would use a fantasy story that I had previously written myself. The story was set in the northern lands… Continue reading From Anton Bruckner to a White Wolf