Composing Music for ALONE album

May 7, 2020May 15, 2020 Randall Oelerich

Composing music for a supernatural thriller horror film ‘ALONE’.

Acquired VENTO woodwinds

February 4, 2020May 7, 2020 Randall Oelerich

Acquired Heavyocity’s VENTO woodwind instrument library

Completed Composing for Film and TV course part II

December 28, 2019May 7, 2020 Randall Oelerich

Successfully completed part 2 of a two part course sequence in composing music for film and TV from Berklee College of Music. I received grades of A on all my assignments 🙂

Acquired New Instrument Libraries

December 28, 2019May 7, 2020 Randall Oelerich

Acquired several new instrument libraries during the xmas sale period of 2019– Hans Zimmer Percussion, Orchestral Swarm, Percussion Swarm, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Solo Strings, Eric Whitacre Choir. Also acquired some sound sweetening plugins from Izotope including Neutron Elements, Ozone Elements, and RX 7 audio editor.

MONARK Reactor Synthesizer

July 15, 2019May 7, 2020 Randall Oelerich

Playing with MONARK 80s analog synthesizer sounds today (such sounds were used extensively in the Netflix hit series Stranger Things particularly for the main theme to that television show).

Albion IV: Dark Horror Thriller Film Scoring Tool

July 15, 2019May 7, 2020 Randall Oelerich

Acquired Albion IV UIST, an orchestral film scoring instruments libary for composing film score cues with unusually dark performances from orchestral strings, brass, and woodwinds. This should help in composing film music for thriller and horror film and television shows.

COMPOSING

SCORING MUSIC / COMPOSING FOR FILM

Film scoring tools used to compose film music — Film composing scoring tools

Film Scoring Audio demo reel (3 min) – Action, Drama, Sad, Magic Fantasy, Comedy, Grandeur, Horror

Film Scoring Tools to Compose Film Music

My film music composing tools include Sibelius and MuseScore notation software, Reaper DAW sequencer, MIDI keyboards, and a KORG nanoKontrol Studio mixing board. Also many sampled instruments to compose, including EWQL Quantum Leap symphonic orchestra, Spitfire Audio’s Symphonic Orchestra, Hans Zimmer Strings, Spitfire’s Albion Collection orchestral libraries, Audiobro’s Symphony Series libraries, and Heavocity’s FORZO and NOVO libraries. –randall_oelerich

Film Scoring Demo Reel

NOTE: The following video/audio clips from films are used here for educational scholarly purposes learning film scoring, many as part of a composing for film class from Berklee College of Music. If any film studios that own rights to these films have an issue with this please contact me and I will gladly remove the clips from public viewing. I am using the short film clips for practice film scoring composition under the Fair Use Copyright act.