What am I up to? Composing!

Author and podcaster J. Daniel Sawyer has been hard at work turning his amazing sci-fi fantasy spy thriller into a fully dramatized audiobook... and I've been composing an original score for the work. You can subscribe to it free and have it downloaded to the podcatching program of your choice.

But, if the music is what you're after, let me provide a couple nice demos.

(Right click the title of the tune and open it in a new window or "save target as" to download.)

Predestination and Other Games of Chance
This is the main theme music for the piece. It contains several motifs which you hear developed throughout the rest of the work. The music is composed as the novel is being produced, one chapter at a time. So the music progresses with the story, as I learn more and more about scoring and composing. This piece really set the bar for the sound of the entire work. I recorded it over one night, with some cheap microphones, a borrowed piano and a new laptop which I still haven't technically paid for. I put it on a credit card.

Joss' Dilemma
This piece first dropped in episode 16, but is used throughout some of the later episodes. The motif from the main theme are easy to pick out, but I expanded on it. I love playing with the abiguity as to whether this tune is in dupal or compound meter. It flows back and forth for a while, then seems to rest on a comfortable compound meter until the end, when we hear the clack of wooden jingles forcing us to hear it in 4/4. Are they triplets or eighth notes? Is Joss Kyle a hero or a villin? These are questions for another day. :)

Satan
Satan is an interesting character. He's not featured explicitly in predestination, but I titled this piece because Satan was being pondered while the music kicks in. I can't speak for anyone else, but for some reason this piece seems to have a nice blend of noble, scary, serious and frivolity that can only be summed up in the most complex character I can think of. The Devil.


Jim & the greenbelt
This is music inspired by one of the characters, Jim, taking a glance at an artificial greenbelt on a lunar colony. The view is beautiful and he longs for it, but also realizes that he will never get to see the real thing again on earth. (Why? Listen to the story yourself, sucka!) So he's vewy sad. :( Emotions are complicated to no end. So I hope I can capture a little bit of that blend of longing and admiration.