Notes & Dispatches — 11 Entries
Writing from the studio, the road, and the listening room.
Ongoing
- 001Studio Note
Finding the Maze
A reflection on repetition, shifting accents, and the strange feeling of becoming lost inside a musical structure that never fully reveals its center.
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Composing With a Tropical Year
An exploration of how seasonal cycles, changing daylight, and astronomical time became the compositional framework for a collaborative musical work.
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Learning How Film Music Works
A look back at the first feature film I ever scored and the lessons that transformed film music from an idea into a craft.
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Revealing the Monster Through Noise
An exploration of masking, perception, and the idea that a monster's musical identity might be hidden from the beginning rather than introduced later.
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The Ancestor and the Self
A reflection on repression, inherited identity, and the psychological space between possession and self-discovery.
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Finding a Voice
How vocal training, identity, and self-perception became the foundation for the score of a film about discovering one's voice.
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The Quiet Side of Brass
An examination of vulnerability, orchestration, and using brass instruments to express fragility rather than power.
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Scoring Family Systems
A study of inherited behavior, recurring patterns, and how family dynamics can become musical structure.
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A Frequency-Based Narrative
An exploration of frequency architecture, ritual sound, resonance, and psychological transformation through music.
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Why Musical Motion Has Direction
A meditation on why melodies feel spatial, why rhythms seem to move, and how listeners navigate music as if it were a landscape.
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The Sound of Avoidance
A reflection on denial, unresolved tension, and the challenge of creating music that behaves like a thought someone is trying not to think.
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