Exsert.net - My Music Journal

Invisible Music

Nathan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:02:55 +0000

Client: “Oh, and we need a music bed for this presentation by tomorrow morning.”
Me: “….”.
Client: “Since its for a tradeshow, and will be looping the entire time, something simple and non-intrusive would be best.”

So I whipped this together and went straight to bed (I’d already been up 24 hours). It’s extremely simple. Stylus RMX + Omnisphere + EXS24 = percolating noises. Apparently I’ll get the chance to expand on this soundtrack once the presentation is converted into a stand-alone piece, complete with audio narrator, at some point in the future. At that point maybe I will post the whole presentation with the actual soundtrack, etc. Until then, this was a “fire and forget” project.

Two Days In Texas

Nathan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:46:56 +0000

Working with Dan Milican at S-Films, and Paul Cavazos at Olah, I composed and performed this music for the Two Days in Texas soundtrack. There is an internet-edit in my portfolio, but I’ve posted the long version here.

The features interviews and footage from cotton farming operations in the Texas panhandle. My grandparents live in that area, so while I was familiar with the landscape, I didn’t realize how little I knew about modern cotton farming until seeing this film. The methods and technology they are using are light-years beyond anything I knew about. It is the convergence of several cutting-edge areas of science: satellite GPS systems, bioengineering, and robotic systems designed to do what used to require dozens of human beings.

If you’d like a closer listen to some of the tracks I created, I have posted them individually here.

00 - Intro sequence
01 -The Difference It’s Took
02 -Two Seed To The Foot
03 -A Willing Embrace
04 -The Only Reason We Can Stay
05 -An Unbelievable Amount
06 07 08 -It Gets In Ya / Two On A Crew / Like That Here
09 -It’s Good
10 -The Only Way We’ve Made It
11 -King Cotton (Theme)

Two Days In Texas (short edit)

Nathan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:06:04 +0000

Soundtrack for a documentary about cotton farmers in the Texas panhandle. The longer version can be found in the journal.

Enterprise Leadership Intro

Nathan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:04:12 +0000

Sound signature for the Enterprise Leadership video podcast: www.enterpriseleadership.org

The Only Way We’ve Made It

Nathan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:43:52 +0000

Here is a track that will appear in a film project I will posting in the portfolio soon. It’s a bluesy piece with traditional orchestration backing it up (strings, woodwinds) and some acoustic guitar.

The acoustic guitar was recorded with a RODE NT-1A condenser mic, mixed with a little bit of the acoustic’s built in pickup. Most of the other instruments are software instruments, except for the electric guitar. The orchestral stuff was from the Miroslav Philharmonik plugin. I was tempted to use the lush East West QL libraries, but they ended up being too dense / heavy in the mix.

This project was heaps of fun - big shoutout to Paul C on this one.

White Beans and Rice

Nathan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:47:55 +0000

This is something silly I whipped up after I somehow wound up with a recording of my better half doing her sarcastic rendition of “Baby Got Back”. Sir Mixalot would be…proud?

After fooling with this, I decided to make it available as a ringtone for the iPhone. You can download the ringtone here:

Download “White Beans And Rice” in the iPhone ringtone format

Once you download it, you should be able to add it to your iTunes library and from there sync it to your phone. Have fun!

Resume Website

Nathan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:27:55 +0000

Intro and promo video soundtrack for a resume website. Directed by Mark Henderson.