Soundtrack (Music)

I was tasked with composing the music for our drama project as I enthusiastically requested that role.
Rhys requested something tragic with piano and strings and so that is the direction I went initially. I started with a basic piano melody on it's own and then brought in arpeggio's on the lower register and eventually some atmospheric strings. I really like the piece I created, but I knew once it was done that it was just too overblown. If it was put over any scenes in a conventional drama it would have bordered on parody.

So I essentially started again and made something a little more sparse. Starting with a held, high pitched string note and then bringing in some very frail piano. I also added a drum beat to the track that comes in when the track repeats, but I don't think the sound was quite right. I think the early part of this piece would have been appropriate for some scenes, but it wasn't quite right.

I experimented with a couple of other attempts and finally ended up with two piano chords that I thought were gorgeous. They're the chords at the beginning of the final piece. Once I had those in place I went from there and wrote everything else. Rhys had a heard a Deadmau5 track in my car that ended on quite ambient piano chords with a soft drum track and requested I do something like that. I added a subtle drum beat and some atmospheric sounds eventually bringing in a basic synth sound for a melody on top of the piano chords. I then went through and fine tuned it so that the synth wasn't too overpowering and the drum sounds were just right and it ended up being the piece we used which I am very happy with.