Cue of the Week: Through the Desert

In addition to its core orchestral cues, Empire Earth II's score featured large number of atmospheric pieces with an ethnic flavor. These made for a great excuse to collaborate with some absurdly talented "world music" specialists, and write for some cool exotic instruments. This particular cue features a duduk (which I used elsewhere in the EE2 score to evoke the Mido east) as well as one of my favorite percussion instruments, the frame drum. I'm a sucker for pitched or semipitched drums, and if that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

Through the Desert

Cue of the Week: A Tale of Two Drumkits

This piece started out as an experiment to compare two drum kit plugins, and envolved into a kind of neo-gothic semi-industrial piano rock prelude. And I never turn down a chance to share music whose categorization involves more than one hyphen. Without further ado:

A Tale of Two Drumkits

Cue of the Week: Death, Defeat, and Victory Montage

This week's selection is fun, if somewhat disjoint. It's an audio montage of defeat, failure, and victory cues from the game Jane's Attack Squadron. I like to think that listening to them in succession suggests a miniature story.

By the way, I realize that "audio montage" is a bit of a contradiction in terms. If any of you Francophones out there know a phrase that works better for the auditory modality, I'm all ears. (So to speak.)

Death, Defeat, and Victory Montage

Cue of the Week: Everything She Did

A moody orchestral cue from the film formerly known as All Over Again, reportedly being re-released under the name Again Time this June! You can expect to read more about this development in this blog.

I realize that this cue is a bit of a wistful way to wrap up a Friday, so after listening to it please be sure to enjoy the compensatory frivolty of your choice.

Everything She Did