Sunday 30 December 2012

Duck Squadron - Epic Music




Duck Squadron: (Make sure your speakers are on so you can hear all the action!)  This aviation squadron is a classified unit comprising of combat ducks!  Some of the combat ducks land perfectly but others haven't got the same skill and experience. The squadron is led by Wing Commander 'Mr. Quack', formerly a member of the US Air Force.

This Duck Squadron articulates its core functions in its 2012 Posture Statement as Special Feathered Operations, Command, Quack and Control, Bird Recovery, Building Partnerships (ie. Mating) and Agile Combat Support.

I did the filming, editing, sound effects and music.  Thanks for watching!  Please comment, like, subscribe and share.  Thanks!

The video footage was captured in Bramhall Park, United Kingdom.

Music: "National Day" by Jon Brooks.
Sound Design: Jon Brooks
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

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Friday 14 December 2012

EPIC Orchestral Music - Ocean Odyssey - Jon Brooks




Epic Orchestral Music "Ocean Odyssey" composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro by Jon Brooks.

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer
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This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2010 Jon Brooks.

ORCHESTRA (As cited on Wikipedia):
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus. The orchestra grew by accretion throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, but changed very little in composition during the course of the 20th century.

A smaller-sized orchestra for this time period (of about fifty players or fewer) is called a chamber orchestra. A full-size orchestra (about 100 players) may sometimes be called a "symphony orchestra" or "philharmonic orchestra"; these modifiers do not necessarily indicate any strict difference in either the instrumental constitution or role of the orchestra, but can be useful to distinguish different ensembles based in the same city (for instance, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra).

A symphony orchestra will usually have over eighty musicians on its roster, in some cases over a hundred, but the actual number of musicians employed in a particular performance may vary according to the work being played and the size of the venue. A leading chamber orchestra might employ as many as fifty musicians; some are much smaller than that. Orchestras can also be found in schools. The term concert orchestra may sometimes be used (e.g., BBC Concert Orchestra; RTÉ Concert Orchestra)—no distinction is made on size of orchestra by use of this term, although their use is generally distinguished as for live concert. As such they are commonly chamber orchestras.

The typical symphony orchestra consists of four proportionate groups of similar musical instruments called the woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings, and also the fifth proportionate group of similar musical instruments like the rhythm section in modern times. The orchestra, depending on the size, contains almost all of the standard instruments in each group. In the history of the orchestra, its instrumentation has been expanded over time, often agreed to have been standardized by the classical period and Beethoven's influence on the classical model.

The so-called "standard complement" of double winds and brass in the orchestra from the first half of the 19th century is generally attributed to the forces called for by Ludwig van Beethoven. The exceptions to this are his Symphony No. 4, Violin Concerto, and Piano Concerto No. 4, which each specify a single flute. The composer's instrumentation almost always included paired flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns and trumpets. Beethoven carefully calculated the expansion of this particular timbral "palette" in Symphonies 3, 5, 6, and 9 for an innovative effect. The third horn in the "Eroica" Symphony arrives to provide not only some harmonic flexibility, but also the effect of "choral" brass in the Trio. Piccolo, contrabassoon, and trombones add to the triumphal finale of his Symphony No. 5. A piccolo and a pair of trombones help deliver storm and sunshine in the Sixth. The Ninth asks for a second pair of horns, for reasons similar to the "Eroica" (four horns has since become standard); Beethoven's use of piccolo, contrabassoon, trombones, and untuned percussion—plus chorus and vocal soloists—in his finale, are his earliest suggestion that the timbral boundaries of "symphony" might be expanded for good. But for several decades after his departure, symphonic instrumentation was faithful to Beethoven's well-established model, with few exceptions.

Apart from the core orchestral complement, various other instruments are called for occasionally. These include the classical guitar, heckelphone, flugelhorn, cornet, harpsichord, and organ. Saxophones, for example, appear in a limited range of 19th and 20th century scores. While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No.6 and Symphony No.9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble. The euphonium is featured in a few late Romantic and 20th century works, usually playing parts marked "tenor tuba", including Gustav Holst's The Planets, and Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.

Monday 10 December 2012

"DNA" - Music by Jon Brooks




"DNA"  (Music by: Jon Brooks)

I composed, orchestrated and programmed this music in Logic Pro using high quality multi-samples.  It was commissioned for a Malaysian UMW (United Motor Works) Rebranding corporate video.

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer
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For additional information or more epic, dramatic, quirky and emotional music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2008 Jon Brooks.

Friday 7 December 2012

Horn Sound




"Horn Sound"

Every sound in this composition, from the melodic to the percussive, the atmospheric effects to the bass originates from a Paxman French Horn.

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FRENCH HORN: Paxman 25m full double, medium bore, titanium valves, gold brass with a detachable bell.
MOUTHPIECE: Paxman-Halstead-Chidell 23mm AS Mouthpiece.
MUTE: Steve W. Lewis mute.

This composition was created for a Kingston University assignment 10 years ago.
Music by: Jon Brooks (© 2002)

Recordings for this composition were taken from three places: De Lissa Hall, the De Lissa Hall Lecture Theatre and my home studio.  The acoustic was rather different in all three locations: my home studio being dry, De Lissa Hall having a little reverberation and the De Lissa Lecture Theatre which seemed to have a short echo delay.  I found the lecture theatre's acoustic was pleasing for softer tones but not suitable for anything above mezzo forte.  I recorded over 23 minutes worth of material of which I knew a lot would be discarded.  I then transferred the material to an Apple Mac computer and began to discard unnecessary remnants using Peak (editing software).  From there I created single samples and manipulated them.

My main considerations for this composition were timbre and spacialisation.  Originally, different timbres were produced by use of dynamics, hand-stopping, glissandi and muting.  Once the samples were in the computer I manipulated them to produce more variation in tone.  Some samples were manipulated to imitate the sound of a trumpet, muted trumpets and even a tuba.

In terms of spacialisation, I recorded a range of sounds with regard to microphone positioning.  For example, the 'rattling of valves' and the 'air through the horn' have a more intimate sound due to a closer microphone position.

The composition's structure is similar to the ABA form, the A section being quite short.  The first A section realizes the horn's preparation to play.  First we hear the mouthpiece going in (this sample was manipulated to produce the rhythm heard, and then pitch shifted down an octave).  We then hear air being blown down the French Horn later combined with rattling of valves.  Section B begins with a horn glissando that evolves into other related manipulated samples.  Section B expresses the following parameters: timbre, pitch, attack, duration and amplitude.  The last section is similar to the first A section and 'bookends' the composition.

Still Images: (All under a creative commons license).
Thanks to: usarmyband, Sadie Hernandez, rmhowie, Paco Vila, congaman (Dave) and Calsidyrose.

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © 2002 Jon Brooks.

Wednesday 5 December 2012

BELIEVE IN ME - Inspirational Quotes - Dramatic Music




A video featuring some of the greatest inspirational quotes accompanied by dramatic orchestral music.  Feel free to include some of your own quotes in the comment section below.

Music: "Believe In Me"
Vocals: Doreen Tang
Music Composer: Jon Brooks

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Music composed, orchestrated and produced using Logic Pro with numerous sample libraries and plugins.

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © Jon Brooks.

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Inspirational Music
Inspirational Song
Inspirational Video
Inspirational Orchestral Music
Epic Orchestra
Dramatic Orchestra

Wednesday 3 October 2012

James Bond - EPIC MUSIC - The Spy Who Chased Me - SKYFALL



Uploaded in anticipation of James Bond's Skyfall release on 26th October 2012.

"The Spy Who Chased Me" - (Jame's Bond pastiche)
www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer
Music composed by: Jon Brooks (I have the same initials! JB) ;-)

Music composed, orchestrated and produced using Logic Pro with numerous sample libraries and plugins.

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © Jon Brooks.

For more information and music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Skyfall is the 23rd film in the James Bond spy series. It features Daniel Craig as James Bond and Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the film's villain. It's the first Bond film to be released in IMAX venues and coincides with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond series which began in 1962 with Dr. No.

Skyfall Plot:

James Bond is missing and presumed to be dead. Identities of every active MI6 undercover agent are leaked onto the internet. M's ability to run the Secret Service is questioned and she becomes the subject of government review. Bond reappears when the service is attacked and follows a trail from London to the South China Sea.

- Agent 007: Daniel Craig
- Directed by: Sam Mendes
- Written by: John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. (Peter Morgan left the project).
- Produced by: Eon Productions for MGM, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Pictures.
- Premiere 23rd October 2012
- Music Composer: Thomas Newman

Skyfall Soundtrack:

Thomas Newman, who worked with Sam Mendes as composer for Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Jarhead replaced David Arnold as music composer. Arnold commented that Mendes selected Newman because of their work together and not because of scheduling conflicts or his work with director Danny Boyle as composer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.

Singer-Songwriter Adele has written and recorded the film's theme song with songwriter Paul Epworth. It's release - 0:07am BST on 5th October 2012 - "James Bond Day".

Video Motion Backgrounds: www.motionbackgroundsforfree.com and http://niz.co.

Saturday 29 September 2012

Corporate Music



Corporate Music - Composed and produced by Jon Brooks.
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This corporate music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2003 Jon Brooks.

Video footage: www.worshipbackgroundsforfree.com

Thursday 13 September 2012

Prayer For Peace



Prayer for Peace

This is the first piece of music I ever wrote (aged 16); notated the old fashioned way - with pen and paper! It was written at home for a GCSE Music course originally as a piano solo; years later I produced a recording of it whilst adding a few other orchestral instruments. This is the recording.

Music Composed by Jon Brooks.
www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer
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This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 1996 Jon Brooks.

Still Images: (All under a creative commons license)
Abhisek Sarda, babasteve, bigbirdz, Bob in Thailand, C Jill Reed, caddy_corner, garryknight, jasonrufus, jonrawlinson, khrawlings, Lel4nd, SimonSays.

Video footage: www.worshipbackgroundsforfree.com

Tuesday 11 September 2012

FRIENDS - Piano and Strings (Emotional Music)



"Friends" - I composed, orchestrated and programmed this music using Logic Pro.  (Violin recorded in Pro Tools).

Music Composer: Jon Brooks
Violin: Lorna Henderson Omar

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This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © 2005 Jon Brooks.

Video footage: www.motionbackgroundsforfree.com

Monday 10 September 2012

Supernova



Supernova - I composed, orchestrated and programmed this music using Logic Pro.  Please comment, like, subscribe and share.  Thanks for your support.

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This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2011 Jon Brooks.

Video footage: www.motionbackgroundsforfree.com

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Sunday 9 September 2012

Balcony Of Love - Romantic Happy Music



I composed and programmed this music using Logic Pro.  This was a demo track for a Cadbury's TV commercial.  Please comment, like, subscribe and share.  Thanks for your support.

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

"Balcony of Love"
Vocals: Michelle Lee
Guitars: Raymund Wee

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2011 Jon Brooks.

Video footage: www.motionbackgroundsforfree.com

LOVE (As cited on Wikipedia):
Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Love may describe actions towards others or oneself based on compassion or affection.

In English, love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure ("I loved that meal") to interpersonal attraction ("I love my partner"). "Love" may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship, or to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love, or to a concept of love that encompasses all of those feelings. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love may be understood as part of the survival instinct, a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

Balcony of Love

Saturday 8 September 2012

Beatbox Bird - Showing off!



Emu shows off his AWESOME beatboxing skills!!!  Watch it in HD for better quality.  Please like, share, subscribe and comment. Thank you for your support!

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This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © Jon Brooks.

(As cited on Wikipedia)
Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It may also involve singing, vocal imitation of turntablism, and the simulation of horns, strings, and other musical instruments. Beatboxing today is connected with hip-hop culture, being one of "the elements", although it is not limited to hip-hop music. The term "beatboxing" is sometimes used to refer to vocal percussion in general (see vocal percussion for details).

Beatbox Bird, Beatboxing Bird, Beatbox Emu, Beatboxing Emu, Epic Emu.
-Music programmed using Logic Pro on an Apple Mac.

Friday 7 September 2012

Forever Friends - Playful, quirky, happy orchestral music.



Playful, quirky, fun and happy orchestral music i composed using Logic Pro.  It was commissioned for a Malaysian Danone Dumex Mamil Gold television commercial (Infant milk formula).

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © 2009 Jon Brooks.

In operation since 1958, Danone Dumex is part of Danone, a Fortune 500 company and one of the most successful healthy food companies in the world.  Danone is headquartered in Paris, France.

Danone Dumex manufactures infant and child nutritional products at its state-of-the-art Nilai plant, and these products are then distributed in Malaysia and Singapore with exports to other countries in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar.

Thursday 6 September 2012

DESTINY - Epic Heroic Orchestral Music



Epic Orchestral Music - "Destiny"

This music was composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro.
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

MUSIC:
This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2010 Jon Brooks.

VIDEO:
"Fire Particles 01" footage by Julian Jakobsmeyer (Cinetrove)

(As cited on Wikipedia)
Destiny or fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos.

Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be distinguished. Traditional usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable" and unavoidable. Classical and European mythology features three goddesses dispensing fate, known as Moirai in Greek mythology, as Parcae in Roman mythology, and as Norns in Norse mythology. They determine the events of the world through the mystic spinning of threads that represent individual human fates.

Destiny is used with regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of Destination, projected into the future to become the flow of events as they will work themselves out. In other words, fate relates to events of the future and present of an individual and in cases in literature unalterable, whereas destiny relates to the probable future. Fate implies no choice, but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. Participation happens willfully.

Some of my musical influences include: Jerry Goldsmith, Gustav Mahler, Danny Elfman, R. Strauss, John Williams, James Newton-Howard, Wagner, Debussy, Patrick Doyle, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Bill Conti, Sibelius, Elgar, Klaus Badelt, Michael Giacchino, Aerosmith, Elliot Goldenthal, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, Def Leppard, Michael Kamen, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young, Gabriel Yared, Bon Jovi, Debbie Wiseman, Shirley Walker, Brian Tyler, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, The Beach Boys, Marc Shaiman, Wishbone Ash, Graeme Revell, John Powell, Mozart, Rachel Portman, Michael Nyman...... and many more!!!

Wednesday 5 September 2012

HICKORY DICKORY DOCK - Instrumental Music (with lyrics)



Nursery Rhyme: Hickory Dickory Dock, The Mouse Ran Up The Clock, The Clock Struck One, The Mouse Ran Down, Hickory Dickory Dock.

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

Music Arranger: Jon Brooks

This music arrangement is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2010 Jon Brooks.  For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

LYRICS:

Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
The Mouse Ran Up The Clock,
The Clock Struck One,
The Mouse Ran Down,
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
The Mouse Ran Up The Clock,
The Clock Struck One,
The Mouse Ran Down,
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
The Mouse Ran Up The Clock,
The Clock Struck One,
The Mouse Ran Down,
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
The Mouse Ran Up The Clock,
The Clock Struck One,
The Mouse Ran Down,
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Tuesday 4 September 2012

SEVENTH HEAVEN - Calming Music to Relieve Stress and Anxiety



Available for download here:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/seventh-heaven-single/id586030327
CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jonbrooks12

Add this calming new age music to your music collection and allow yourself some time to slow down; relieve stress and anxiety with this soothing, relaxing music.

"Seventh Heaven" is ideal for Meditation, Yoga, Mindfulness, Reiki Healing, Massage, Reflexology, and other relaxation techniques. It is highly effective at inducing sleep and can be used as a way to help your brain get into a meditative state. The slow tempo and musical structure encourages the heart rate and breathing to slow down. This calming new age music is even more effective if you can listen with headphones on. Use "Seventh Heaven" to help you combat negativity and a wide range of uncomfortable symptoms and sensations.

Whether you are suffering from crippling generalized anxiety, panic attacks, depression, adrenal fatigue, PTSD, agoraphobia or an energy disorder, you can take back control of your physical and emotional wellbeing; be kind to yourself. Give your sympathetic nervous system a break. Your adrenal gland, hypothalamus and amygdala will thank you for it! This music was specifically composed and produced for empaths, highly sensitive people and those with a high emotional intelligence.

Thousands of people have enjoyed and psychologically benefitted from "Seventh Heaven". Make sure you experience the whole music track. (It's a good idea to turn off your phone so you're not distracted). Sit down (or lie down), close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and concentrate on this beautiful music to clear your mind. Boost your mental health, be who you want to be, and enjoy!

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Testimonials:

"I love it!  Thank you so much.  I was out of control earlier and on the edge of self-halming. I feel so much more calm. Thanks! xx :)"

"Thank you.  I suffer from really bad panic attacks and this actually helped me today. Thank you."

"i have a big exam now. and my mom just don't get it. i'm tired stress and about to blew up, this song helps me relax :)"

"This just really helped me out a lot thank you so much i was about to have the "attack" and this just took my anxiety away much thanks given have a great holiday"

"this just helped me with some non-stop belching i've had for almost a year now…..every time i play this it stops but every time i stop playing it it comes back :-( but nevertheless at least i found a temporary way to briefly stop it thanks :-)"

"Helps me relax when i'm overwhelmed with school. Thank you very much."

"Beautifully done! This piece has really helped calm me down from stressful family today. Thank you."

"I recently got some nasty online hate and I have quite a bit of homework…… This seriously helped me to relax. Thank you. :)"

"This is great. i've an exam in two hours time and i'm very nervous. just playing this soothes me down a lot. thanks ((:"


This music was composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro.
For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

ARTWORK: Jon Brooks

MUSIC: This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2012 Jon Brooks.

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Monday 3 September 2012

EASTERN REALMS - Epic Orchestral Music (with eastern influences)



Epic dramatic orchestral music with a fusion of eastern influences.

I composed, orchestrated and programmed this music in Logic Pro using high quality multi-samples.

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © 2006 Jon Brooks.

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

For additional information or more epic, dramatic and emotional music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Sunday 2 September 2012

HUNTED - Short Film



This is a short film I worked on around 10 years ago, so please excuse some of the dated MIDI sounds and programming.  I had just graduated from university and was extremely grateful to Chris TJ Mcguire and Howard J Smith for the opportunity to work on such a great short short film.

This film, including its soundtrack, is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  2003 © Chris T.J. McGuire, Howard J. Smith, Jon Brooks.

In Respect... Chris J. McGuire Snr. (1949 - 1992)
In Memory... Mark Speight (1965 - 2008)

Check out the designers and sellers of Steadicam compatible modular camera sled systems and equipment here: www.mk-v.com

I composed and produced the music and sfx using Cubase (I'm a Logic Pro man now though!) For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

My YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

CAST AND CREW:

Cullen: Mark Speight
Bobbi: Deborah Bouchard
Hunters: Giles Payne, Andy MacNab
Quad Hunter: Simon Wood

Steadicam Operators: Howard J. Smith, Chris T.J. McGuire

2nd Unit Camera Operator: Simon Livingstone
1st Assistant Camera: Ben Appleton
2nd Assistant Camera: Greg Smith
3rd Assistant Camera: Stammos Triantafyllos

Grip: Tim Thompson
Crane Assistant: Rich Bentley
Camera ATV Driver: Mark Pepper
Sound Recordist: Jim Butler

Making of Crew:
Cameraman: Chris Flint
Camera Assistant: Nick Helm

Mini-Cam Camera Assistant: Gregg Cheetham

Special Effects & Armourer: Scott MacIntyre

1st Assistant Director: Jon McCormack
2nd Assistant Director: Andy Kitching
Runners: Adele Hanily, Kerry Spillane, Nick Pasalimaniotis
On-Line Editor: Stephen Fisher

Music Composed by: Jon Brooks
Audio Mixing: Jon Brooks
Sound Design: Jim Butler, Jon Brooks

Catering: Anna McGuire, Karen McGuire, Jo Colbran
Car Mount Equipment kindly supplied by V.F.G.

Mini-Cam and D.A.T. supplied by Visual Impact North Ltd.
With thanks to Matt, Ian & Dave

Lighting supplied by Web Lighting Ltd.
With thanks to Kenny, Paul & Phil

Cameras and Specialised Equipment supplied by Grip-tech Ltd.
Camera Stabilisation Systems supplied by www.mk-v.com
Back Mounted Vests supplied by Daniel Sauve

Edit Facilities supplied by MediaFour Ltd.
With thanks to John, Rick, Jon & Terry

With thanks to Yamaha U.K.

Producer: Simon Wood
Screenwriters: Chris T.J. McGuire, Mark Pepper

Directed & Photographed by: Chris T.J. McGuire & Howard J. Smith

In Respect... Chris J. McGuire Snr. (1949 - 1992)
In Memory... Mark Speight (1965 - 2008)

Friday 31 August 2012

MONKEY BUSINESS - Quirky Fun Music



Monkey Business - Quirky chimpanzees accompanied by fun, jolly bouncy instrumental music.

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © 2008 Jon Brooks.

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

- Public Domain chimpanzee footage from the Prelinger Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

Some of my musical influences include: Jerry Goldsmith, Gustav Mahler, Danny Elfman, R. Strauss, John Williams, James Newton-Howard, Wagner, Debussy, Patrick Doyle, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Bill Conti, Sibelius, Elgar, Klaus Badelt, Michael Giacchino, Aerosmith, Elliot Goldenthal, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, Def Leppard, Michael Kamen, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young, Gabriel Yared, Bon Jovi, Debbie Wiseman, Shirley Walker, Brian Tyler, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, The Beach Boys, Marc Shaiman, Wishbone Ash, Graeme Revell, John Powell, Mozart, Rachel Portman, Michael Nyman...... and many more!!!

Thursday 30 August 2012

TYPE OF MUSIC (features a musical typewriter)



"Type of Music" (Music Composer: Jon Brooks)

This music features a typewriter.  It's is a cue from a TV show i worked on in 2008 whilst working as an in-house composer in Malaysia. "NST Spell It Right".  I composed, orchestrated and programmed the music in Logic Pro using high quality multi-samples.

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © 2008 Jon Brooks.

Feel free to check out my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Wednesday 29 August 2012

ALIEN HAND ATTACK



Alien Hand Attack - WARNING - This is not for anyone with a nervous disposition. Please ensure your speakers are on so you can hear the piano.

YouTube Channel: JonBrooksComposer

Website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk
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Tuesday 28 August 2012

Ducks At Sea - Music



Yes, that is me quacking!  The quacks were recorded numerous times and layered on top of one another.  ;-)

DIGI Friends and Family Plus - Music composed and produced in Logic Pro.

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer
For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2007 Jon Brooks. TAGS: "Ducks at Sea" "the duck song" "the duck song 2" "the duck song 3" "the duck song 4" "the duck song parody" "the duck song lyrics" "the duck song remix" "rubber duck" rubber ducky ducks quacking "ducks quacking" bath "music composer" "jon brooks" duck cute "at sea" DIGI TVC "always the smarter choice" suspense jaws "john williams" composer "logic pro" amusing funny forestfire telco prepaid postpaid SMS phone iphone 4s mobile cell ipad apple samsung galaxy htc nokia blackberry 3g facebook ipod ocean yellow

Monday 27 August 2012

"Hot Air Balloon" - Epic Music - UAE National Day



"Hot Air Balloon" - Music composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro for a UAE National Day TV commercial. It features an excerpt I arranged of UAE's National Anthem towards the end. (Raise The Flag Higher - 2010).

Director: Anwar Al Amin
Producer: Aiham Ajib
DOP: Elvin Lee
Music: Jon Brooks
Aerial Filming: Majdi
Post: Real Image Dubai
Line Producer: Nadia Ahmed

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2010 Jon Brooks.

"Dancing Stars" (Free Motion Backgrounds): http://niz.co/

Musical influences include: Jerry Goldsmith, Gustav Mahler, Danny Elfman, R. Strauss, John Williams, James Newton-Howard, Wagner, Debussy, Patrick Doyle, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Bill Conti, Sibelius, Elgar, Klaus Badelt, Michael Giacchino, Aerosmith, Elliot Goldenthal, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, Def Leppard, Michael Kamen, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young, Gabriel Yared, Bon Jovi, Debbie Wiseman, Shirley Walker, Brian Tyler, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, The Beach Boys, Marc Shaiman, Wishbone Ash, Graeme Revell, John Powell, Mozart, Rachel Portman, Michael Nyman...... and many more!!!

NATURE'S PATH - Beautiful images with beautiful music.



"Nature's Path" - Music Composer: Jon Brooks.
Music Produced in Logic Pro.  I wrote this music whilst living/working in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

This music track, "Nature's Path", is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.  © 2006 Jon Brooks.

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk
Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

All images have a Creative Commons license - Images by: Paul Bica, MagnusL3D, VinothChandar and EmilyAmimu.

Sunday 26 August 2012

Peoples Problems - Sex, Relationships, Dating, Love, Health, Drugs, Debt...



Peoples Problems: Introducing www.peoplesproblems.org

An online community dedicated to supporting those with personal problems across a diverse range of topics. This advertising feature sets the theme of the site, and we'd really really appreciate it if you could 'like' this video, so that we can gain further support for those experiencing difficulties - every little helps!

(This is my brother's website - Please do check it out and share, thanks.)

Music by: Jon Brooks

PEOPLES PROBLEMS:

Our Vision:
To be the leading relationship forum and free of charge self-help internet resource, facilitating the exchange of advice in an anonymous and welcoming environment.

Site Overview:
You can discuss your relationship problems in our confidential discussion forum, or read and relate to other peoples problems. Our visitors often seem unsure whether to consult with a relationship counsellor or not, so we'd like to think that our forum is the first port of call for any problem, but not necessarily a substitute for professional help.

If you have a Twitter account, please follow us. You'll be featured in our Twitter universe (below), and we'll automatically hyperlink back to your Twitter account to help give you some exposure too!

Miles Franklin said "someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings" - and we like to think that our site facilitates this basic requirement. Therefore, if you just listen to people's problems, you're actually helping them to overcome them to a certain extent.

As mentioned above, the main feature of the Peoples Problems website is the advice forum, so why not share your problems, and see whether our visitors can offer their support.

In addition to the community based problem forum, we have an evolving business directory, so if your company is dedicated to helping people with problems (especially relationship advice), then don't just rely on Yahoo and Google to drive referrals - we'd be delighted to host more information about your business for free! Click here for details

In fact, there's quite a lot going on here, so you might like to bookmark us so you can keep up to date with all the new content being contributed by our users every week.

If you're not here to look for help, or to read other peoples problems, then you might like to take part in our on-line poll, or create your own poll for others to vote on. Another popular feature you may be interested in is our survey which enables you to compare your profile against other people who have already taken part.

If you would like to post your own topic and get advice about a problem or even create a new poll question, you can register for free. On our site, the main problems that people encounter, are to do with their relationships, emotions and sex.

Once registered, you can post your problem or poll question, and then it will be available for others to view and offer advice (using the alias name you provide, as your e-mail address is not displayed). Other people with problems are also looking for guidance, so please assist wherever you can to help build up this community resource.

We reckon it is best to be as open as possible when it comes to discussing relationship problems, as lack of communication is the root cause of many a problem. We hope that you are able to support this site by contributing to the discussion topics - particularly those which haven't yet received a response.

Peoples Problems: www.peoplesproblems.org

Feel free to check out my website too: www.jonbrooks.co.uk
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

Saturday 25 August 2012

"Children In Need" - Emotional Piano and Orchestra



"Children In Need" Music Composer: Jon Brooks.

I composed, orchestrated and programmed this music using Logic Pro.

Feel free to subscribe to my YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer
For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2006 Jon Brooks. (As cited on Wikipedia) BBC Children in Need (also promoted as Plant Mewn Angen in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity. Since 1980 it has raised over £500 million to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. One of the highlights is an annual telethon, held in November and televised on BBC One and BBC One HD from 7pm until 2am. "Pudsey Bear" is BBC Children in Need's mascot, whilst Terry Wogan is a long standing host. BBC Children in Need is one of three high-profile British telethons, although the only charity belonging to the BBC, the other telethons being Red Nose Day and Sport Relief, both supporting the Comic Relief charity.

Friday 24 August 2012

"Army of Doom" Epic Battle Music HD



Epic Battle Music - "Army of Doom" - Epic orchestral music cue that I composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro using high quality multi-samples.

For additional information or more epic, dramatic, quirky and emotional music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Subscribe to my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2010 Jon Brooks.

Images licensed from www.istockphoto.com apart from 'Charbon' on Flickr by Serge Melki (Creative Commons license).
TAGS: epic music dramatic music army of doom epic battle epic mix best epic music war hero legend skyrim roman heroic transformers soundtrack score evil prometheus superhero two steps from hell emotional music avatar batman xmen ironman spiderman superman hans zimmer john williams orchestra jerry goldsmith classical orchestra orchestral epic

Thursday 23 August 2012

Phoenix Rising - Epic Orchestral Music



"Phoenix Rising" - Epic Orchestral Music "Phoenix Rising" - Music composed, orchestrated and programmed in Logic Pro using high quality multi-samples.

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2010 Jon Brooks. For additional information or more music, please visit my website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jonbrookscomposer

'Phoenix Rising' image by: John Mallon Iphoneography (Creative Commons license).

Thank you for listening!

(As cited on Wikipedia)
The phoenix, or phenix is a mythical sacred fire bird that can be found in the mythologies of the Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indians and (according to Sanchuniathon) Phoenicians/Canaanites.

It is described as a bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends. It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (literally "sun-city" in Greek). It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song. The Phoenix's ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one. In very few stories they are able to change into people.

Some of my musical influences include: Jerry Goldsmith, Gustav Mahler, Danny Elfman, R. Strauss, John Williams, James Newton-Howard, Wagner, Debussy, Patrick Doyle, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Bill Conti, Elgar, Klaus Badelt, Michael Giacchino, Aerosmith, Elliot Goldenthal, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, Def Leppard, Michael Kamen, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Young, Gabriel Yared, Bon Jovi, Debbie Wiseman, Brian Tyler, Alan Silvestri, The Beach Boys, Graeme Revell, John Powell, Mozart, Rachel Portman, Michael Nyman...... and many more!!!
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Wednesday 22 August 2012

Astro Kirana Romance - 15secs



This is the romance (romantis) genre ident for Astro Kirana. I composed and programmed this promo music in Logic Pro for Astro Kirana - a Malaysian 24-hour satellite TV station featuring movies.

YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jonbrookscomposer

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This video, including the soundtrack, is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2009 Astro/MFX/WASP Studios/Jon Brooks.

(As cited on Wikipedia)
ASTRO KIRANA was a Malaysian satellite television channel dedicated to airing Asian films, owned and operated by Astro. Launched on August 31, 2006 as a free-to-view channel, on channel 43, later moved to channel 23 until October 1, 2007, when the channel was moved to channel 122. On May 18, 2009, this channel was merged to the Mustika package and renamed as Astro Citra.

ASTRO is the brand name of the Malaysian direct broadcast satellite (DBS) Pay TV service. It transmits digital satellite television and radio to households in Malaysia & Brunei. The name Astro is an acronym for All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator. Astro is owned and operated by Astro Television Network System Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astro Malaysia Holdings Sdn Bhdthat owned by Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd It has operations at All Asia Broadcast Centre located in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Measat in Cyberjaya.

Tuesday 21 August 2012

"Beribu Sesalan" - Official Video - Jaclyn Victor, Ning Baizura, Shylla ...



This is one of five songs that I orchestrated and arranged for the Malaysian album '3 Suara'.  Beribu Sesalan - Official Video: Jaclyn Victor, Ning Baizura, Shylla Amzah (Official Music Video).

Website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Artist: 3 Suara (Jaclyn Victor, Ning Baizura and Shylla Amzah)
Title: "Beribu Sesalan" ('A Thousand Regrets')
Song by: Kevin Chin
Lyrics by: Tinta
Music Arrangement by: Jon Brooks
Solo Violin: Yap Yen
Label: Sony Music, Malaysia

LYRICS:
"Ku susuri malam ini
Yang tidak berbintang sunyi sepi
Juga rembulan dah menghilang
Dalam kelam ku sendiri

Ku mencari hembus bayu
Yang selalu berbisik madah rindu
Kini membisu dalam sayu
Tidak ku temu suaramu

Kekasihku di jalanan yang berliku
Di saat ku perlukanmu
Tertutup jua segalanya terhadapmu
Di sini ku tersedu-sedu

Setelah cinta pergi
Ku mengusung duka ini diiringi
Kisah janji dimungkiri lagi

Kekasihku di jalanan yang berliku
Di saat ku perlukanmu
Tertutup jua segalanya terhadapmu
Di sini ku tersedu-sedu

Setelah cinta pergi
Ku mengusung duka ini
Diiringi

Kisah janji
Dimungkiri
Dimungkiri

Sia-sia ku
Mencintaimu
Setia padamu
Percayakanmu

Sebak dadaku
Retak hatiku
Luka jiwaku
Dihiris pilu

Sia-siaku
Mencintaimu
Setia padamu
Percayakanmu

Sebak dadaku
Retak hatiku
Luka jiwaku
Dihiris pilu
Beribu sesalanku"

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
"3 Suara is a collaborative album by three Malaysian singers: Jaclyn Victor, Ning Baizura and Shila. The album was released on January 6th, 2011. The concept of the album is the sound of Malaysian pop music in the 80's and the 90's. It is said that the inspirations for the album are the local women singers from the 80's such as Noorkumalasari, Francessca Peter, Zaiton Sameon and more."

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This video, including it's soundtrack, is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only.

Music/Video © 2011

Friday 17 August 2012

Epic Dog Terrorizes Geese in Park



Epic footage of a dog terrorizing ducks and geese in Bramhall Park (United Kingdom).

The owner in the black t-shirt wasn't bothered about controlling his dog.
(August 16th 2012).

YouTube Channel: JonBrooksComposer
Website: Official Website

Monday 30 July 2012

"The Power Of Dreams" - Epic Symphonic Music




I composed, orchestrated and programmed this music using Logic Pro. Please comment, like, subscribe and share. Thanks for your support.

The Power Of Dreams - Epic Symphonic Music.

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/jonbrookscomposer

This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2011 Jon Brooks.

Video footage: www.motionbackgroundsforfree.com

Sunday 22 July 2012

"Movie Magic" - Disney Pixar Promo Music




Walt Disney Pixar "Movie Magic"

Music composed and produced in Logic Pro by Jon Brooks. Guitars: Raymund Wee. Please comment, like, share and subscribe. Thank you for your support.

I altered the middle of the video edit. I used a still frame of the Movie Magic animation; originally there should be movie footage. I didn't want to infringe copyright.

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk

Feel free to check out my YouTube channel too: http://www.youtube.com/user/jonbrookscomposer

This video and its soundtrack are subject to copyright and are provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2010 Disney/Pixar, WASP Studios, Jon Brooks.

(As cited on Wikipedia)
DISNEY: The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), commonly referred to as Disney, is an American multinational diversified mass media company headquartered in Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, California, United States. It is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, music, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

(As cited on Wikipedia)
PIXAR: Pixar Animation Studios, or simply Pixar, is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spinout as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs who became its majority shareholder. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, which transaction made Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.

Saturday 30 June 2012

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Op.28 - Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)


German Composer - Richard Strauss

Notes by: Jon Brooks

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks was written in 1894-95. In this tone poem, Strauss uses the pranks of a 15th Century legendary medieval North German rapscallion as a vehicle for mocking the musical conservatives who criticised his radicalism. Its once-upon-a-time introduction is followed by scenes in which Till upsets bourgeois propriety and is hanged for his bad behavior. In the end, his mocking ghost prevails.

‘Till Eulenspiegel’ actually narrates in music several adventures of the medieval troublemaker, right up to his trial and execution. Till Eulenspiegel is the most famous German folk hero, a roving jester whose exploits translated into dozens of languages, and influenced composers such as Richard Strauss, have fascinated and delighted millions for nearly five hundred years.

‘Till’ is written in Rondo form. Not in the classical sense, but rondo-like in that the two ‘Till’ themes keep recurring in a variety of guises, enlivened by shrewd touches of instrumentation. Strauss applies these themes to an endless cascade of variations and arabesques to depict the situation or mood of the character during seven ‘episodes’ e.g. the ‘new pranks’, ‘masquerade’ and ‘flight’. Several secondary themes such as the ‘street song’ are also intertwined within the structure. The overall structure includes prologue and epilogue sections to accommodate the unfolding story.

The prologue is a musical statement of the ‘Once-upon-a-time’ found in fairy-tales as mentioned earlier. Although this is only four bars long, the phrase adopts a form of what is later to be the second of the two principal themes.

‘Till’ is introduced with one of the main themes on horn, characterised by the use of accents, chromatic notes, staccato and a slightly syncopated feel. This brilliantly captures the scampish nature of ‘Till’. Others have also suggested that this primary theme on the horn promotes ‘Tills’ heroism. (Strauss regularly turns to the horns to portray heroism in his music). This theme then characterises itself among several unfolding episodes, the moods of which are varied in several ways, noticeably by orchestration, e.g. the transition from the lyrical string writing of the ‘love’ episode through to the ‘vengeance’ episode with its enlarged theme and extended brass scoring, remarkably rich in the pedal register of the bass trombone. After hearing this motif, we frequently hear ‘Till’s legendary society’ frowning upon him, e.g. when he’s sentenced.

The epilogue takes the second principal theme into a huge coda which employs all the themes whilst summarising the nature of the joker in a warm and witty manner.

The overall melodic scheme features the themes and variations as well as programmatic effects such as the clarinet playing the part of ‘Till’ interjecting briefly between phrases, and the famous high note following ‘Till’s’ execution.

The first performance of Till Eulenspiegel was on 5th November 1895 under the baton of Franz Wullner.

Instrumentation:

 - Piccolo
- 3 Flutes
- 3 Oboes
- English Horn
- 2 Clarinets in B-flat
- D Clarinet (Ref. 1)
- Bass Clarinet
- 3 Bassoons
- Contrabassoon
- 4 Horns in F and E
- 4 Horns in D (ad libitum) (Ref. 2)
- 3 Trumpets in F and C
- 3 Trumpets in D (ad libitum) (Ref. 2)
- 3 Trombones
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Bass Drum
- Snare Drum
- Cymbals
- Triangle
- Large Ratchet
- Violins I
- Violins II
- Violas
- Violoncellos
- Double Basses

References:

(Ref. 1) Original score calls for a Clarinet in D, the part is usually played on Clarinet in E-flat due to the former being rendered obsolete during the twentieth century.

(Ref. 2) Strauss indicates four and three extra horns and trumpets respectively to be added ad libitum. The parts are to be played by separate players from the original four horns and three trumpets.

Bibliography:

Enclosed booklet in jewel CD case: Deutsche Grammophon, Berlin Philharmonic: Karl Böhm

Internet:

http://www.richard-strauss.com/biography.html (Content expired)
http://www.classical.net/music/comp.1st/straussr.html (Content expired)

Textbooks:

The New Grove Dictionary of Music
A History of Western Music: Donald Jay Grout / Claude V. Palisca

Friday 22 June 2012

Satria Neo - Dramatic Orchestral Music - Proton




Proton Satria Neo "Desire" - Dramatic orchestral music composed and produced in Logic Pro for the Proton Satria Neo launch campaign.

Please comment, like, share and subscribe. Thank you for your support.

The Satria Neo was introduced in June 2006 as a replacement for the first generation Satria.

Agency: TBWA \ TEQUILA
Director: Brad Hogarth
Music Composer: Jon Brooks
Sound Design: Paul Morrison

For additional information or more music, please visit my website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk

This video and its soundtrack are subject to copyright and are provided for demonstration purposes only. © 2006 TBWA\TEQUILA, WASP Studios, Jon Brooks.

(As cited on Wikipedia)

The Proton Satria is a hatchback produced by Malaysian Proton in 1995 for the first generation and ended in 2005. The new Satria Replacement Model (SRM), known as Proton Satria Neo was launched on 16 June 2006. The name Satria which means knight in Sanskrit was chosen for Proton's 3-door hatchback to reflect the sportiness of the car.

Thursday 10 May 2012

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein


"Investigating the Relationship of Music and Image" - Jon Brooks

Contents

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Motion Picture Soundtrack Cover Art
- Film information
- Introduction
- Style and Concepts
- Soundtrack
- Breakdown and Investigation
- Conclusion
- References
- Bibliography

Film Information

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:
(1994)
Music Composed by:
Patrick Doyle
Directed and Produced by:
Kenneth Branagh
Starring:
Robert De Niro - The Creation
Kenneth Branagh - Victor Frankenstein
Helena Bonham Carter - Elizabeth
Tom Hulce - Henry Clerval
lan Holm - Baron Frankenstein
John Cleese - Dr. Waldeman
Aidan Quinn - Captain Robert Walton
Picture Duration: 118 minutes (approx.)
Soundtrack Duration: 69 minutes, 55 seconds (Plus source music and shorter cues not included on the soundtrack recording).
Percentage of music scored to film: 60%
Victor Frankenstein’s research enables him to create a ‘monster’ from various body parts. Subsequently, Victor rejects him. The monster’s recognition of its own presence, loneliness and knowledge of creation, fuels a furious disposition of revenge. Kenneth Branagh guides us through the story of Victor’s quest for knowledge, and the creatures search for his ‘father’.

Introduction

The central subject matter of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein exists in man’s obsession with the power of immoral creation. This type of film requires sophisticated scoring techniques because of the nature and characteristics of the plot. The film medium, since its inception, has allowed for a realisation of fictional concepts and ideas, and therefore, has sought to create alternate realities through the use of striking visual images and musical scores. In this context, the music suggests a reality that is not possible for the image alone to capture.

Style and Concepts

Before filming began, Kenneth Branagh had asked Patrick Doyle to write a melody to the words of Byron’s poem, ‘So We’ll Go No More A Roving’ (Ref 1). The initial plan was to feature a song during the ballroom scene. This idea was eventually discarded, but the theme remained.
Like many other film scores, Patrick Doyle’s score is based around the leitmotif technique. Not every character has their own theme, but the significant amount of thematic development makes it possible and appropriate to attach similar material to the required scenes. The main theme, featured in its entirety is during ‘The Wedding Night’ scene. As this leitmotif theme occurs throughout, Doyle’s creativity excels as he produces a fully orchestrated score and develops the ideal cues to connote the appropriate mood for the specific scenes.

Soundtrack

Running time: (69’55")
NB: Source music is not included on the soundtrack.
Track 1: To Think Of A Story (3:28)
Track 2: What’s Out There? (2:52)
Track 3: There’s An Answer (4:37)
Track 4: I Won’t If You Won’t (1:58)
Track 5: A Perilous Direction (3:20)
Track 6: A Risk Worth Taking (3:18)
Track 7: Victor Begins (0:54)
Track 8: Even If You Die (2:16)
Track 9: The Creation (2:00)
Track 10: Evil Stitched To Evil (4:43)
Track 11: The Escape (1:47)
Track 12: The Reunion (0:45)
Track 13: The Journal (1:04)
Track 14: Friendless (2:09)
Track 15: William! (2:44)
Track 16: Death Of Justine/Sea Of Ice (3:54)
Track 17: Yes I Speak (5:37)
Track 18: God Forgive Me (0:57)
Track 19: Please Wait (3:21)
Track 20: The Honeymoon (1:16)
Track 21: The Wedding Night (2:05)
Track 22: Elizabeth (4:11)
Track 23: She’s Beautiful (3:36)
Track 24: He Was My Father (6:10) 

Breakdown and Investigation

In the first scene Captain Robert Walton (obsessed with reaching the North Pole), with his crew and ship, crash into an iceberg during a turbulent storm. Tracks one and two dramatically accompany the storm and later set the scene by displaying a sense of mystery, darkness and the fear of the unknown as the crew begin to hear strange noises somewhere out in the distance. Sparse excerpts of the main theme are introduced in these tracks with which a recurring chattering and spiky woodwind motif appears that compliments the cold and icy images and help to establish the setting. The audience then begins to discover what the unknown is in the format of a story, which is related by Victor Frankenstein as he appears from the snowy, frozen landscape. Delicate, but dynamic underscore accompanies this scene.
The mood of the music then shifts with the scene change to a lighter and more joyous time in Victor’s life (as a child). Here the audience is introduced to the first cue of source music (unfortunately not on the CD soundtrack), as Victor dances with his mother just before Elizabeth’s arrival and introduction (Victor’s adopted sister). Doyle suitably transforms his main theme into a baroque style dance on the harpsichord as if being performed by one of the characters (Justine) on set. Music then underscores and stitches the scenes from Victor’s childhood to approximately fifteen years on with slower and more reflective music mainly featuring strings and woodwind. Source music is used again for another dance, this time the theme seems to draw influences from composers such as, Bach, Haydn and Mozart, in places sounding like the development from a Sonata making use of the ‘classical’ alberti bass which also features ornamented baroque melodic lines and counterpoint. As Victor’s story unfolds, the audience experience his family life, research, and soon his obsession with solving the problem of death. Death is introduced for the first time when his mother dies. Three years later, whilst visiting her gravestone, in a soliloquy he vows, "no one need ever die, I will stop this ..... I will stop this .... I promise". During Victor’s field experiment in the company of Elizabeth, Justine and Willi, the score begins to create an exciting and playful quality, out of which a magical orchestral moment emerges (track three - 4:01) that compliments the visuals and narrative during the experiment’s results. A few scenes later more source music accompanies Victor’s leaving ball, out of which a more substantial form of the main theme creeps in as the audience begin to perceive what seems to be the beginning of an intimate relationship between Victor and Elizabeth. Victor then proposes to her, and she accepts.
We are then transported to Ingolstadt to where he is to continue his studies. As he enters the rented cathedral-like attic, a short and energetic arpeggio orientated brass figure is announced. Although not on the soundtrack, it is rather similar to the beginning of track seven. The presence of this cue is as if to magnify or hint of what is to become within the attic. From here on, the score assumes a darker role in the production.
Victor manages to acquire the journals of Dr. Waldeman who has just been stabbed by a patient. Doyle stings this scene in a most suitable fashion, incorporating bawling brass stabs and startling rasping trills from the horn section. These journals assist Victor in his quest to create life and fulfill his research. Thinking in the chance that lives can be saved from his experiments; to him, his work is justified. The criminal gets the death sentence (hanging). As he is propelled from his footing, Doyle’s brass motif (beginning of track six) suitably portrays the emotional reaction the audience visualises: a burst of anguish and a sense of inescapable doom. This seems to relate to, and justify Deryck Cooke’s theory (1959), that particular pitch sequences (‘basic terms’) have a one-to-one correspondence with specific emotions. (Ref 2) For example:
Doh-re-mi-re (Minor) - Burst of anguish, which then dies away.
Doh-re-mi-re-doh (Minor) - A sense of inescapable doom.
Gabriel (1978), found no significant pattern of agreement with Cooke’s descriptions and their emotional content (Ref 3). But surely this depends on the context. If these ‘basic terms’ are harmonised, developed and orchestrated in an appropriate manner, then an understanding may be achieved. In this case, Patrick Doyle’s brass figure relates very closely to that of both the examples above and are executed in the most appropriate manner.
Victor is now capable of creating life, and whatever the consequences, he will continue. This is portrayed in track six, ‘A Risk Worth Taking’. Half way through the track a gloomy rendition of part of the main theme is sounded from a solo french horn combined with strings as Elizabeth begins to worry about Victor and decides to go to him. The cue leaves the audience in a state of suspense.
Track eight accompanies Victor’s preparation for the creation of ‘the monster’ using "raw materials" by "stitching evil to evil". Exhausted, he falls asleep, only to be woken by a knock at the door - that of Henry and Victor’s fiancé, Elizabeth. Both are warning him of the epidemic. Elizabeth enters and is shocked to see how Victor is living. Urging him to leave, she pleads for the cancellation of his project due to the plague. He refuses, thus putting the importance of his project above her and even his own life. Subsequently the accompanying cue even though solemn, is remarkably delicate and beautiful, as once again the main theme materializes. Upon her distraught and intense departure, trumpets cry out of the orchestration incorporating wailing appoggiaturas. Research demonstrated by Professor John Sloboda, a psychologist at the University of Keele, found that the use of appoggiatura’s was a device commonly known to be associated with tears. (Ref 4) This device functions extremely well with the pace and mood of the drama.
Victor realises what he has done and so his intentions become more frantic and serious. The music at this point (track nine) breaks into possibly one of Doyle’s most exciting cues for the film. Both the score and visuals depict Victor’s firm determination to continue with his work. The pacing is most notably increased; defined by the films editing and Victor’s energy, plus the scores use of rapid accompaniment whilst propelling a wonderfully syncopated and rhythmically driven cue. Due to the complex orchestration, it is difficult to pinpoint specific influences, only to draw to the conclusion that Doyle’s originality is at his most creative. Unfortunately for the film music lover, the SFX cover the subtleties in the score even though the music is featured quite heavily. For example, without listening to the soundtrack alone it is almost impossible to distinguish the presence of an organ amongst the mix.
When his creation (Robert De Niro) is complete, he sees that it is dysfunctional and that his work resulted in an abomination. Swells by flutes, strings and trumpets (possibly organ too!) lead up to a swift violin passage, which accompanies a vision of Victor’s monstrous mistake;
"who hangs suspended like Christ on the Cross from the rafters" (Ref 5). He vows to destroy his creation the next morning.
Victor is woken by the creation whilst ‘it’ attempts to escape. Whilst on the rampage in the streets, the film seems to subtly impose that the audience be inclined to show the creation a little sympathy. When Victor discovers his creation has escaped he is drained and falls ill. Henry his colleague cares for his health. Whilst recovering, Elizabeth comes back. A piano solo by her in the next room awakens him. This piano music used as source, is Doyle’s main theme, but once again, unfortunately not included on the soundtrack. This evolves and flourishes into more thematic string material (track twelve) as he apologises for his behavior upon their reunion.
The creation finds Victor’s journal in the coat he took from the attic. Swells by the trumpets, strings and flutes accompany this scene (track thirteen). The first time the audience heard this haunting and glacial sounding device was when it accompanied the creation hanging from the rafters in the attic. It seems that Doyle intended for the audience to associate this theme with the creation’s presence and also with the journal.
Track fourteen, ‘Friendless’, directs the audience to sympathise with the creation’s loneliness. Meanwhile, Victor has moved back to Geneva with Elizabeth to marry. From the journal, the monster begins to discover how he was created. Utterly distraught and furious, he swears his revenge. Subsequently the music cue shifts with the creation’s emotion. From here, the pace of the drama really increases.
The search for Victor’s younger brother (Willi) is accompanied by track fifteen, which exudes worry, anticipation and finally an acknowledgement of his death (killed by the creation). This scene serves as a semi-climax and triggers some of the most intense emotions. Justine is wrongly accused for Willi’s murder and is hung. Doyle’s hit point a minute into track fifteen’s cue is perfectly crafted and dramatically modulates on target when the rope is fully extended, representing the images and enhancing Justine’s neck being broken. The creation then demands Victor to meet him on the Sea of Ice. Underscoring this meeting, the creation spills his soul to his ‘father’.
Track nineteen unfolds the most substantial figure of the main theme so far. Beautifully crafted for strings, this romantic orchestration accompanies Victor’s struggle to keep Elizabeth.
Music accompanying ‘The Honeymoon’ (track twenty) is quick and brooding, as if they know the creation is following, which, of course, ‘it’ is. In the love scene (track twenty one), the audience is finally presented with the beautiful main theme in its entirety. The rich, lavish score, boasts much emotional content. Delicate harmonies and drifting progressions are marvelously orchestrated and certainly supplement the darker cues on the soundtrack. Like many of the other tracks, even if taken out of context, it would be likely to prove a success.
The drama takes its final dark tum. Victor makes a reluctant promise to create a partner for the ‘monster’. The creation has realised that Victor has broken his promise, and that costs him the life of Elizabeth. Using his research skills once again, he brings her back to life with parts of Justine and herself. The music in this scene (track twenty three) begins with an atmospheric approach out of which emerges a dramatic response from both the characters and score. Realising what has happened, with much grief, the new creation (Elizabeth) kills herself.
The final scene takes place on the ship, as seen in the very beginning, as Victor concludes the story. Through exhaustion, he then dies. Shortly after, the creation appears and explains to the ships crew that Victor was his father. The creation then announces that he is done with man and accompanies Victor’s body which is burning on an iceberg which serves as a funeral pyre. Track twenty four underscores this entire section. Doyle’s use of suspensions and dissonance make the doom evident. The two-note motive applied to the trumpets, previously implemented at Justine’s and Willi’s death, are once again exploited and enhance the visuals and intended emotional reaction. This track incorporates a compilation of all the thematic material and main themes to bookend the drama and decently brings things to a close.

Conclusion

From the beginning, it was clear that the film demanded such a score; one that incorporates a large orchestra to enable the "specific orchestral effects in order to match many grand images on screen" (Ref 6). Patrick Doyle’s leitmotif concept works superbly within the construct of the film. With thorough knowledge of the sounds a symphony orchestra is capable of producing, he creates some of the most appropriate cues to accompany the images and drama. The main theme plus all the subsequent thematic development effectively characterise the drama of Victor’s story as well as romanticise the adventures of the ‘creation’. This approach allowed the film form to dictate the score form which in tum also benefited significantly from the blending of source music. Doyle interchanges from source into score, and vice versa, quite subtly making sure that the transfer is not noticeable or distracting to the audience. To attain the intended emotions, Doyle’s score makes full use of ‘psycho physical variables’. Balkwill & Thompson (1999) found in their research that "Listeners relied upon the only resource at their disposal: psycho physical cues" (Ref 7). For example, variables that consisted of divergent tempi, rhythmic complexities, melody, harmonic progressions, timbres and specific tessituras. Doyle carefully crafted these variables to elicit the required mood and pace knowing that an emotional response from the audience was essential in establishing the success of the film. Unfortunately the film was not as successful as some would have liked. Dispersed throughout the film is evidence of Branagh’s creativity and Doyle suitably portrays this. Occasionally, the audience may feel the visuals and score over dramatise the plot, but as a whole, the combined images and score pull through and produce a most entertaining drama, which reflect both the horrors and the beauties of this specific genre.

References

#1: Patrick Doyle’s Notes - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Soundtrack. Sleeve notes, September 1994.
#2: Cooke, D. (1959) ‘Melodic line and emotion’, Psychology of Music, Vol. 28. No.2. p.139
#3: Gabriel, C. (1978) ‘An experimental study of Deryck Cooke’s theory of music and meaning’, Psychology of Music, Vol. 6. p.13-20.
#4: Sloboda, John (1996) ‘ABC Radio National — Health Report Transcript’ Music and Emotions. Monday 1st April. (Presenter Robin Hughes). (Web site source listed in bibliography).
#5: Patrick Doyle’s Notes - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Soundtrack. Sleeve notes, September 1994.
#6: Patrick Doyle’s Notes - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Soundtrack. Sleeve notes, September 1994.
#7: L-L & Thompson, W. F., (1999) ‘A cross-cultural investigation of the perception of emotion in music: Psycho physical and cultural cues’. Music Perception, Vol. 17. No.1. p. 58.

Bibliography

Balkwill, L-L & Thompson, W. F., (1999) ‘A cross-cultural investigation of the perception of emotion in music: Psycho physical and cultural cues’. Music Perception, Vol. 17. No.1. p.43-64.
Cooke, D. (1959) ‘Melodic line and emotion’, Psychology of Music, Vol. 28. No.2. p.139
Gabriel, C. (1978) ‘An experimental study of Deryck Cooke’s theory of music and meaning’, Psychology of Music, Vol. 6. p.l3-20.
Patrick Doyle’s Notes - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Soundtrack. Sleeve notes, September 1994.

Website

Sloboda, John (1996) - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talls/8.30/healthrpt/hstories/hr010401.htm (content expired)

Discography

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Patrick Doyle Epic Soundtrax (477987 2)

Video

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Kenneth Branagh VHS CC7527