This four-movement suite with themes is the result of my exercise scoring a series of animations by YouTube personality Jordan Maron ("CaptainSparklez"). Dubbed the "Fallen Kingdom Tetralogy," these animations were intended to serve merely as music videos for pop songs by Maron and his collaborators. However, I noticed that they actually tell a rather sophisticated and cinematic story, with each one presenting both its own narrative arc and a chapter of an overall coming-of-age story. This was material ripe for scoring! So I set to work, crafting underscore around themes for important characters, locations, and action sequences that intertwine as the story unfolds. This focus on thematic material resulted in some of my most creative work to date, spawning several other versions of the music and leaving me with tunes that continue to resurface in later pieces of mine.
This four-movement suite with themes is the result of my exercise scoring a series of animations by YouTube personality Jordan Maron ("CaptainSparklez"). Dubbed the "Fallen Kingdom Tetralogy," these animations were intended to serve merely as music videos for pop songs by Maron and his collaborators. However, I noticed that they actually tell a rather sophisticated and cinematic story, with each one presenting both its own narrative arc and a chapter of an overall coming-of-age story. This was material ripe for scoring! So I set to work, crafting underscore around themes for important characters, locations, and action sequences that intertwine as the story unfolds. This focus on thematic material resulted in some of my most creative work to date, spawning several other versions of the music and leaving me with tunes that continue to resurface in later pieces of mine.