I completed my new Demo Reel today, trying to cram as much diversity into the shortest amount of time. It runs at just under two minutes and covers everything from my cartoon work to my personal music projects. Enjoy!
Comments are welcome as I will be updating it over the course of the year and as video editing is not my forte I will take all the help I can get. Read the rest of this post for the full video credits and links to their creators.
A near disaster has put a short delay on the Original Words EP and Warm/Bug 7″ but production has resumed and I will post the complete details on both projects shortly.
Getting things ready to release the Original Words EP next month. I made a video for Boys, originally by Bauhaus.
The songs were recorded for a benefit for Blue Sunshine, an experimental film center in Montreal and are being released on CDr and as a digital download. More details to come!
Edit: I will be merging this blog with my main website over the next two months but will be back to a semi-normal update schedule.
Here are two comps for a short film by Samuel Hilton who had a showing in a recent Kino Kabaret in Montreal called Kill Him. I was asked to make something akin to the soundtrack from Drive and came up with these two pieces:
Mondo Mondo (2011, music for Kill Him)
Uomo Uomo (2011, music for Kill Him)
The two songs picked were Tick of the Clock by the Chromatics and A Real Hero by College. For bass and lead synths I used the Novation Bass-Station and Tal-Bassline. I would also like to take this oppurtunity to share with you the wonderful world of freeTogu VST’s. I tend to use their generators sparingly in my own music but their reverb and delay effects are great to work with.
This next piece is synced to a segment of Voyage à travers l’impossiblefrom 1904 by Georges Méliès, the maker of Le Voyage Dans La Lune. The piece has the inventors boarding The Impossible Carriage, crashing through a dining hall, riding along a mountain range and ends with the vehicle and its passengers careening off a cliffside.
Carriage Descending Staircase (2010, audio for Voyage à travers l’impossible segment)
I based this composition primarily around piano, using it to build rhythm and tension along with various changes in tempo.
