An ambient-orchestral piece designed to provoke thought in the listener. Composed for the Final of one of my classes in the Fall 2023 semester. Instruments include voice, synth strings, and synth percussion, amongst others.

Soprano 1 and 2, Alto 1 and 2, electric cello x2, strings, piano, drums. Created in Ableton. Blue Baby Bottle Microphone. Scarlett 2i2 interface. "Walking down the road of life, With the chain breaking, Somebody come set me free."

The visual portion is NOT MINE and all rights belong to the original owner. It was used under the "Fair Rights/Use Act" for Educational Purposes; I was using the visual portion as part of a class project about editing sound to picture, and creating sound effects. The Stipulation for this video was that I was required to take a scene from a movie that had a plot (escape the Balrog), make sure it had at least two background types, edit it to under two minutes and make sure it still made sense, then mute the whole clip and recreate all audio using whatever means we had available to us.

How do you get a video like this one? Step 1: have your teacher ask you to create music only (no dialogue or sound effects) for the trailer s/he selects for you. Step 2: watch the trailer, and discover that it is about a creepy doll that murders people. Step 3: make the decision to break a nursery rhyme, and orchestrate that.