Movie Scoring (Maybe), College, and some Vector Art

      Holy... I actually have a reason to write a blog post, less than a month apart from my previous one, no less. This is amazing for me.

COLLEGE TIME?

(i promised myself i wouldn't do this, but be prepared for informality.)

     People who follow my blog (if there are any) should not be concerned of any absences that may or may not occur in the coming months. I am a man of impulse, and being impulsive, I applied to numerous colleges last week on a whim. I've already received a few letters of acknowledgment requesting I send in a portfolio of my best work for review, and have been doing so while simultaneously working on some new stuff to give my portfolio a bit of extra pop.

     If there are any people who follow my blog and know me at all should be able to guess that I have applied to most of these establishments to major in Graphic Design (with a few exceptions being Audio pre/post-production), therefore most of my time has been focused on visual art rather than music, meaning my progress concerning the few tracks I was working have slowed, though not halted. I'm still very eager to finish them and show them to you internet people, but I sadly don't have the capacity to work on visual art and music at the same time (Maybe I'll develop a method to do so in my free time, if I happen to get any). I might post some old stuff in between just for the hell of it.

     I've recently moved out of my (former) place. I may be doing so again very soon, depending if I get accepted to any of the Colleges I applied to. I won't be specific, but most of the schools I applied to are pretty far away from home, at least 3 hours away. This will likely mean I won't have internet access for a while since I'm not even sure where I'll be staying if I end up moving far away. Chances are the dorms will already be full, so I'll have to do some searching for a residence off-campus, unless I end up going to school in Ottawa, in which case I know some friends that might be able to help out until I'm able to find a place of my own.

     Well... I've gotten way off topic. I promised myself this blog wouldn't be overly personal, so let's move on, shall we?

DOES THIS SMELL LIKE CHLOROFORM?

     Before I begin with this section, some of you may be wondering "What's with the 'random' titles"? Well, I decided I'd give each section (music: Does This Smell Like Chloroform?, art (?), & literature: Embers Falling On Dry Grass) of my blog a title to make searching through the blog for any specific section much more manageable. 'Does This Smell Like Chloroform?', refers to the title of my first post which centered solely around music, 'Embers Falling On Dry Grass'. something I'd seen someone using in their display name on Messenger, I thought it sounded cool, hence borrowed it for the Literature portion of my blog & I've not yet decided what I'm going to use for the Art portion, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

     This one's going to be a shorter update (if you can call it that). Since I will probably be away for some time in the near future, I may as well post some music for the internet during my absence. This file is essentially a demo, a quick mock up, if you will, of what the song is supposed to sound like. This demo began from scratch and was finished in approximately 6-7 consecutive hours. When it comes to composing music, I've always found I've done much better at writing instrumental pieces. I found this one to resemble something you'd find in a movie score, and after experimenting with the direction of the track, I decided I would fully orchestrate this piece. I haven't yet got around to doing so, but I'll leave the demo (referred to as 'the demo' as is currently untitled) here for anyone who may stumble across this blog to listen to. I expect to start working on the fully orchestrated version as soon as I can, but for now, enjoy:

Hit Me:


AS FOR ART...
(Yeah, it sucks; I don't have a title yet.)

     I guess this counts. Sorta. I recently updated the style of my twitter account to make it a little more intuitive and to stand out from other peoples' twitter profiles. I worked on this yesterday, and I'm pretty pleased with it. It's not done, I'm still deciding exactly what I want to do with the right side, as it looks a little bare.

(click to enlarge.)

     To view it in action, go here. As always, if you want to be really nice, and for some reason want to stalk my every move, you can follow me on twitter (shameless promotion ftw). I update much more frequently there, and occasionally spit out something witty or random, maybe even something funny.

That's about all I've got for the internet this time around. Until next time.

...Oh... And watch out for falling Sharks, okay? Better safe than sorry.

Peace.
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