Hello!
I know it has been a little while. Still being in the pandemic, things remain pretty strange out there, but things are looking up and I hope we can all see each other again soon.
Since last I wrote here, I have finally graduated college with a Bachelors in Music Composition (Scoring for Visual Media) with Honors! It was a proud moment and I’m really excited for the future.
I wanted to share with you a piece I wrote for my final scoring project, which I called “Mountains”. It was written for the orchestra and was supposed to be recorded by a full orchestra, but covid created some issues and we ended up with a much smaller ensemble, who actually recorded their parts in their home studios separately. You can imagine this caused some challenges in the mixing portion of it, but I ended up being really happy with the result. Not to be cheesy, but this song for me was my way of expressing how challenging the college experience was and what it felt like to finally overcome it, so hopefully that comes through in the music. You can hear it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l6m1mosp4t4fi2k/Mountains_Final%20Mix.wav?dl=0
I was lucky to often be working outside of school while I was in college. I’m excited now to be full force into my career and I’ve been lucky to have already been receiving work, assisting an established composer, writing additional music for a cartoon series they do, that I’m not sure I can talk much about yet, but it’s been really exciting. I’ve also been working with bands, like the metal band Vyle, who has hired me a few times now to write synth and electronic parts for their music, as well as recently some orchestral arrangements. I’ve also been working with music library companies writing some production music, more details on that to come soon as well.
Thanks so much for the support. I’m really looking forward to the future with a lot of hope and happiness.
Brandon