The Next Ten Minutes...soundtrack

The Next Ten Minutes…soundtrack

Sep 302010

I’ve been hard at work lately on a short video trailer for The Next Ten Minutes. As a composer, one of the most important aspects of this has been creating the soundtrack for the video. I wanted to create a piece of music that worked harmoniously with the spoken word but which could also stand on its own as a sort of soundtrack to the book itself. So, while the evolution of this cyclic, meditative piece is driven by the rhythms of the text it accompanies, my hope is that it also has an internal coherence of its own.

And yes, I acknowledge the influence of Steve Reich.

The full video will be available nearer the publication date for the book (10/26).

To hear the music, use this player:

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Combat music

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May 122010

My son is designing a video game and he asked me if I would compose some “combat music” for the project. I’ve never created anything like that before and I thought it would be an interesting challenge. This is the piece that I threw together for him:

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I thought it was pretty decent, but he told me that it wasn’t quite what he was looking for (although he did say that he might be able to use it in a different part of the game). I told him that I was considering shopping it to “24.”

Very Hard Life – a sound sculpture

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Apr 022010

As I described in the previous post, when I settle down and attend to my mind what I discover beneath the level of my conscious thoughts is a murky soup of white noise, inchoate sounds blended together, out of which my conscious thoughts arise. This piece is my effort to capture that experience in sound. I call it a sound sculpture because of the process I used to create the piece: I began by combining a number of different ambient recordings, then I carved away various sonic elements until I arrived at an approximation of what it is that I hear when I quiet my conscious thoughts and listen to the background noise in my own head.

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