Music
I love ALL forms of music. From Classical to Jazz, Avant-Garde, Psychedelic Rock, Funk, Blues, Ambient, Electronica, Heavy Metal and Soundtracks.
I am an ACTIVE LISTENER in order to learn and grow as a musician, know what’s been done before, why it is important and how it connects to other musicians and being inspired to create new musical art.
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Musical Background
I have been playing the piano for over 40+ years. I started playing synthesizers in 1988, while in college at The University of North Texas.
Shortly after leaving college, I started learning how to play the drums whenever I could sit down at a drumkit. I finally bought my own drum kit in 2005 and then could play whenever I wanted to.
I started composing for films in 2004 when I met Benjamin L Ward and Rendalee Singleton and was asked to provide a score for a short film that they had just completed. What is amazing is that we are all still working together today some 15+ years later!
I was in an ambient improv band called Escher’s Elevator with Cliff McCarthy on Vibraphone, MalletKAT and synthesizers and we gave them some of the music we had been working on at the time. It ended up being a perfect fit for the mood of their film “Charles”.
Currently, I play piano, organ, synthesizers (analog/digital), drums, percussion, acoustic/electric guitar and trombone.
Soundtrack Scores
Look For Me Between We and Z (2012)
This short film was the first time that I just used sound samples and minimal piano notes to create the score. It is quite effective at conveying the uneasiness and surrealism of this short film.
The Sitter From Hell (2020)
This score was inspired by John Carpenter and all of the early 80’s horror films I have ever watched.
The Sitter From Hell (2020)
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Anonymous (2016)
This short was a really intense shoot. At some point, we we attempted to use a blood spurting cannon to mimc the blast of a gun. After several sad attempts, we gave up with it and decided that it was more powerful just to hear the sounds and terror and your imagine would make it more gruesome than anything we could have shown the viewer.
I tried to make the music as on edge as the visuals.
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Chat (2005)
This score was the first official soundtrack score I did and it was written and recorded specifically for this short film. They still tell me today that it is the best one I have ever done.
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The Soul Gatherer (2013)
This was the first feature length film that I had scored. It was quite a challenge and clocks in at over 45 minutes worth of original music. It was an amazing experience to watch this film in a packed theater and hear all of the audience response during the key scenes in which the music is perfectly complimenting the visuals.
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Still Life (2015)
This was one of the rare times when not only did I score the short, but I had the chance to play a role as well. This was an extremely emotional short film because it deals with the subject of a suicide in a family of one of their daughters. With my haunting and ethereal musical attitudes, the power is felt throughout all the way until the end.
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