#7daysofVGM take two: a different approach
For my second #7DaysOfVGM Composition Challenge, I treated all seven little pieces of music I wrote as if they were all part of the same video game score.
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#7daysofVGM: a thrilling compositional sprint
The #7daysofVGM Composition Challenge is a semi-regular week-long event coordinated by the Video Game Music Academy. It’s basically a compositional sprint—or rather, seven of them in a row. There is...
Morten Lauridsen shows you how to write a song.
In a great little seven-and-a-half-minute video courtesy of classicalchops.org, Morten Lauridsen takes us through the compositional process behind one of the most performed choral pieces of our time, Dirait-On. (French, pronounced something like “dee-ray-tawn”.)
Vsauce asks: Will we ever run out of new music?
A neat little edutainment channel on YouTube, called Vsauce, is full of geeky-fun videos about fascinating science questions. One I really enjoyed watching:
“Will we ever run out of new music?”
Into the world of music publishing.
I just thought I’d share that I’m in the process of finding a publisher for what will be my very first piece of published music. It’s a set of three little piano pieces called Three Piano Miniatures inspired by birds. The total playing time is about 3 to 3 1/2 minutes and you can hear them on my Composing and Scoring page.
Anyone have any insight into the publication process, or any ideas how best to go about this? I’m waiting to hear from the first publisher now—if I find success, or a whole lot of failures, I’ll post an update.