My name is Michael and welcome to my portfolio website and blog. Here I document my adventures in cinematic music creation and more.
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Aurora Eclipse Productions are proud to announce my fourth cinematic music album release in the form of the aptly named, “CINEMATIC”.
Back in 2016, AEPL released my first album, “Awakening, the Early Scores”. This compilation album contained film music cues contained within any short film projects I had worked on to that point. For me, it highlighted the beginning of a career, and releasing an album of these early efforts was a good way to stamp this in time. Skip forward 5 years and in a similar vein, I now release “CINEMATIC”.
Some of you may have caught my blog from a couple of months ago where I said I had completed a remix/cover of the After Burner II soundtrack. Well, I decided to release it!
Afterburning marks the 17th release by Aurora Eclipse Productions Ltd, the track is available to buy direct from AEPL via the website or Bandcamp and is on all streaming platforms worldwide including Spotify.
I am so pleased to announce that my latest soundtrack album “Fragments (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” for Andrea Ratti’s short film, Fragments is now out!
The soundtrack album is launching 14th June 2020 and is available for PRE-ORDER on iTunes/Bandcamp now. This one is a little special as Aurora Eclipse Productions Ltd are pressing a limited edition (20 copies) 12” vinyl, which you can also pre-order now!
AEPL recently released “Revenge Is Sweet", a single cue by myself… The cue was originally written for the trailer for “Blanket”, a short film I scored some years ago. After years of it being on the shelf, Aurora suggested I dusted it off, gave it a bit of a mix and let it go free!
Originally released independently in 2014, “Bewailing Under the Eastern Sky” attempts to fuse traditional Indian and wester classical instrumentation and time signatures to create a textural emotion piece of music which might lightly appease both cultures. The cue was later released under AEPL in 2017 to bring everything under one roof.
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To celebrate the completion of the short documentary film "One Day", AEPL has released my music cue as a single which is now available to buy and stream worldwide on all major digital streaming services. The cue is also on sale from us directly in the Aurora Eclipse Productions Ltd store.
“Blanket was a tricky film to write, given the subject matter and minimal dialogue approach, It took me quite a while to discover how to best voice the film musically and keep things minimal enough to not overpower the film. Blanket is a real whirlwind as it tackles a multitude of emotions including depression, happiness, despair. romance, thriller, suspense, horror, and regret…”
After a series of conversations with my friend and photographer Stuart J. Bland, he convinced me to release my short action cue "The Raging of the Falcons" and offered to help me out with the cover design, an offer I immediately took him upon… The track was composed during a quiet period some months ago while using some new sample libraries and recording a YouTube video talking audiences through the composition and how I mixed various string sample libraries together to achieve my desired sound.
Today I received some exciting news! The Silver Lining Pictures produced short YouTube documentary "Mad Frankie Fraser: His Last Interview" has just exceeded 100,000 views on YouTube, in light of this, I figured I would release the score via Aurora Eclipse Productions Ltd!
Since the turn of 2016, I feel I've grown musically and am moving into newer realms. I wanted a way to catalogue my progress so far..I see all these pieces as stepping stones in terms of my developing as a composer and while these early scores are very minimal and elementary in terms of composition, I'm very proud of them! It's great for me to be able to listen back to some of the films I've worked on; as such, I have created "Awakening, The Early Scores".
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Dolour is my second single also released by Aurora Eclipse Productions Ltd. I intended the track to sound aged and something which could perhaps underscore a ballet dancer, or a sombre tale. By using a grand piano throughout the entire composition and light supporting instrumentation, I hope I have done just that!
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Maritime Discoveries is a dark ambient track I designed while studying at University. The track is build up entirely of “found sound”, no instrumentations have been used. I fused, stretched, pitched, layered, faded, reversed and essentially went a little mad during the design, which he says happened during a single evening.
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