For promo purposes only: here’s another ‘rescored’ video, this time for the trailer of John Carpenter’s classic 1982 movie The Thing, rescored with my instrumental music track Outpost 31.

John Carpenter has always been one of my favourite directors (and composers). His soundtracks to films like Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 are iconic genre soundtracks and inseparable from the films.

Outpost 31 was written as a sort of imaginary alternative soundtrack to The Thing – I always had the epic icy visuals and claustrophobic imagery of the film in the back of my mind when writing this track. You can hear the full preview and buy the track from my mp3 music download shop here:

Buy Outpost 31 mp3 from thebluemask.com shop

Here’s a promo video clip for my first royalty-free music collection for film and documentary makers.

The collection contains over 45 minutes of dark dramatic piano and atmospheric ambient royalty free music soundtracks plus a license to use the music in an unlimited number of your own films and documentaries.

This collection of dark and atmospheric music is ideal for films, thrillers, documentaries and any visuals needing a dark and dramatic atmospheric soundtrack. You can hear full length previews of all the tracks and read full details of the music collection in my music shop:

Royalty Free Film & Documentary Music Vol.1: Piano & Atmospheric Beds

This video was shot and edited by talented filmmaker, photographer, musician and veteran of the hip hop scene, D-Nice which uses my track Resolution for the music soundtrack.

Also check out D’s excellent series ‘True Hip Hop Stories’ (which also features some of my music) on his website at www.d-nice.com

You can buy the piano track Resolution for use in your own film and documentary projects as part of volume one of my royalty free music collection for film and documentary makers. The collection features over 45 minutes of atmospheric piano and ambient music soundtracks with a license to use the music in an unlimited number of projects:

Royalty-Free Film & Documentary Music Vol. 1: Piano & Atmospheric Beds

My dramatic orchestral action track Zahara is currently being used nationally on US television promotional trailers for Fox’s hit TV show 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland.

The track is featured in two different promo spots for Season 7, Episode 10 of the hit show, both of which can be seen on the right.

Zahara is a dramatic instrumental orchestral action track that is also available to license for use in other commercials, trailers and TV advertising spots.

The track can be instantly licensed for non-broadcast purposes or contact me directly for broadcast licensing queries.

The full length track is just under two and a half minutes long in total.

More information about the track as well as a full length preview is available in my online music shop.

You can also buy Zahara as a CD quality mp3 download from the music shop at the following link:

Buy Zahara mp3/license

BBC documentary footage of icebergs and glaciers in Antarctica scored with a dramatic, hypnotic and atmospheric ambient music soundtrack.

Antarctica is an ethereal atmospheric ambient piece of music along the lines of work by artists such as Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Stars Of The Lid, Biosphere, Vangelis etc.

An ideal atmospheric music soundtrack for film, documentaries, relaxation, yoga or sleep. You can buy the full 7 minute ambient music track as a CD quality mp3 download from my online music shop as well as instantly license the track for use in your documentaries or films:

Buy Antarctica from thebluemask.com shop

As promised in the previous post, here’s a great featurette showing how composer team Asche & Spencer created the beautiful and hypnotic soundtrack to the film Monster’s Ball, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry.

The video shows how the team of composers worked to create a classic ambient and highly atmospheric score using guitar drones, piano and atmospheric soundscapes – I love this soundtrack.

OK, this video has been around for a while now but it’s still a beautiful clip.

Directed by Spike Jonze as an intro to Lakai’s skateboarding movie “Fully Flared“, it features the M83 track “Lower your eyelids to die with the sun” from their excellent album “Before the dawn heals us“.

If you like cinematic visuals with atmospheric music, check it out.

BBC documentary in 6 parts about Harry Partch, an ‘idiosyncratic’ composer and instrument maker who devised his own microtonal musical scales:

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4cKnTj2cyNQ

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtOKSl3zZs

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5OH0WgLgaAM

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HfCjWIQtm-M

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pZV3zF-JpEc

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqHH0N5vpw

Writer Harlan Ellison draws some parallels about (not) working for free that many media composers will be familiar with.