I have chosen to develop my composition skills because being a freelance musician could mean that I am asked to do a variety of different jobs. As well as writing my own free compositions, I have tried to compose scores of popular songs. For example, I have written a score of 'Good Vibrations' for Strings (As seen below). I composed this score for a video idea, where I would record myself playing each part and then put it together and post it online.
The audio for this score uses MIDI instruments, which unfortunately doesn't make it sound as high definition as real performance of it, but the score itself is pretty close to the song.
Audio for this score can be found here:
I am currently working on a song that I am composing. At the moment the score looks a bit bare, but I will be adding it to a different software.
Another example of things I have composed could be some of the compositions myself and Tudor made for our class's 15 Minute Short Film (Can be heard below). Both pieces were both inspired by different things and the collaboration between me and Tudor meant that both classical and modern ideas were brought to the table. The Montage theme was inspired by film music, such as the work of Howard Shore. Many of the montages from The Lord Of The Rings helped inspire and motivate us to come up with the orchestral type theme. I wanted it to be quite dramatic, so that it engages the audience, but also reflects on the drama within the script itself. On the other hand, the piece titled "Modern Ideas" was inspired by modern songs and modern instrumentation. We wanted to bring Electric Guitars, Bass Guitars and a Drum Kit to give it a more modern approach because the characters in the script (apart from Dave) are quite young.
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