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Serenity: Clip
The music to this cue from Universal's 2005 sci-fi thriller "Serenity" was composed as part of the 2008 NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. The score combines three distinct layers to create its mood: the full orchestra, a choir of voices making rhythmic percussive sounds with their mouths, and subway/train samples electronically slowed down and looped.
Fragile: A Collaboration (excerpt)
"Fragile" was inspired by the work that artist John K. Lawson created in the after-math of hurricane Katrina. The film combines fragments of his art with still photography, music and sound. These three elements are layered together to form a truly visceral 10-minute experience. A line from C.G. Jung's "Modern Man in Search of a Soul is set to music and repeated through-out the score and encourages the audience to experience the film in a genuinely individual and personal way. "Do anything you like, only don't try to understand."
Yebo: Letter of Light Brigades
The score to this short film uses sounds recorded entirely on the subways of New York City. As subway bells become organ-like riffs and the tapping on a wooden bench becomes a drum backbeat, soundscape transforms into soundtrack, blurring the line between sound-design and musical score. "The Lord is no longer using the childrens to save anyone. Begin at the House of God. And judgment has already begun."