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Hobby: Score for my first script

November 3, 2024

jzahir Amateur Cinema, Hobby, Music Leave a comment

The main theme uses Orpheus’ Lyre. It starts in B flat major then changes to darker modes as he gets closer to Hades.

Scene when Orpheus is on the shore of the river Styx and sees Charon’s boat approaching through the mist over the river.

Scene when Orpheus enters Hades’ temple and we see Hades on his throne reading prayers of the deceased that were burned on funeral pyres. On each side of the throne is a brazier; one for “Granted” and the other for “Denied”. Shadows flow over the floor’s surface until they reach the lit area around Hades. From the shadows, long arms shrouded in floor-length dark sleeves rise with the prayers on paper and hand them to Hades. The first cresendo is when we see Hades and the second for when he decides and tosses the paper into one of the braziers.

A composite of other people’s music

April 19, 2024

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In order to hear progressions in a chord that I haven’t heard before, it’s useful to mix music the way Private Label wineries do with wines they didn’t create. As long as the tempo and key are the same, I’ve created sounds that give me ideas.

I can’t claim these as anything but plagiarized from four talented Pond5 composers but I’m not familiar with anyone advertising that they use this technique.

Ode to the O’O

April 19, 2024

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The last Hawaiian O’O bird was recorded in 1986.  When the person who recorded it rewound the tape to listen to it hours after the bird had flown away, the excited bird immediately flew back expecting to find another of his species.

I wrote this music when I heard that story.

I used an app called KeyFinder to get the key of the bird-song. I used HookTheory to find the most popular chord progressions in that key and output the basic structure to MuseScore to finish it up. Several riffs are purely my own, but I can’t say I actually “composed” anything. It was more like I “put it together”.