With the official debut on my music in Penny Arcade today, I’ve added two new pages to the website. First is a page specifically devoted to the music for the show. I will be updating this page each week with the tunes used in the show.

Also, I’ve added a store page where some select tracks are available for download. As it mentions on that page, downloading the music does not grant the license to use the music for anything but personal listening. Use the Contact page if you would like to request a license to use any of my pre-existing music in your project, or you can hire me to write something original for you.

Here’s a link to PAtv, where you can watch the latest show: Penny Arcade: The Series (Season 2) – The Warehouse

In my continuing collaboration with Van Blumreich, I am happy to announce that I will be providing original music for Penny Arcade: The Series, Season 2. Van left Austin a few months ago to take the job at Penny Arcade as their Director/Producer for Season 2, and now that things are gearing up he has graciously brought be on-board to assist with the music needs for the show. The style content is all based on old-school 8-bit games and has been a real treat to compose. The first few episodes should be appearing on PAtv near the end of the month. I’ll be sure to announce when the first show goes live via Facebook, etc.

In other news, I’m currently very much in the midst of scoring “Doubles” for Chris Flynn. When it’s all finished I’ll post some sample tracks. It’s mostly moody piano/strings. 😉

I’ve also completed a few shorts recently:
Serial (for the DVXuser Thrillfest), directed by Jason Sanders
Paranoia (for the 72hour film challenge), with some of the members of AFM
Kiss & Ride (premiering 11/12 at Texas Film Friday), directed by Val Gamiero

The latest Sample track “Star-Crossed” is the underscore for Kiss & Ride.

This month I was happy to get the bulk of the score done to a short film by Lantz Stevens, called “Under.” This is a great little art piece with some very thought-provoking themes. Though post hasn’t officially wrapped yet, I’ve uploaded the main theme of the film for your enjoyment.

Also, on a more upbeat note, I’ve been working with Louis Weyrich on the theme song for his new web-series on dysfunctional daters. I’ve posted the first draft of the show theme as well. It’s funky and a little goofy, and was definitely a lot of fun to compose.

The DVXuser forums are a pretty popular place for indie film makers, and they regularly hold “Fests” where members submit short films of a particular genre, and are voted on. Recently, I participated in the latest of these, the DVXuser WestFest. The film I worked on was a very short, short, only about 4 minutes, but the scene was well conceived and shot. Since the whole thing revolves around these 3 bank-robbers in a…wait for it…standoff, I decided to choose an small ensemble to match, relying solely on acoustic guitar, shaker, and whistling. The title cue can be heard on the music player. I’m definitely looking forward to participating in more of these “Fests” in the future.

So after some poking around, I decided to try my hand at a WordPress site. The flash site I set up on Wix is nice, but the load time is a beast, and with iPhones unable to read flash I thought it was time to look at something else. Hope you like it.

Last weekend was the annual 48 hour film challenge. I’d participated in it a couple times in Cincinnati and was excited to get into it again, as it’s usually quite an adventure. My team was composed primarily of friends from the Austin Film Meet this time around. On Saturday morning, I got the script and began working on some ideas, then it was off to the annual IGDA picnic at Richard Garriott’s. When Sunday afternoon rolled around, I learned that some issues with one of the cameras’ footage was resulting in major delays. I decided to just write some music that would be appropriate for the film, should it ever get to me. Unfortunately it didn’t, as they were unable to solve the issues they were having, but hey! I got some good writing done in the mean-time. Check out the cues from “Suffer the Children” to hear it.