Assignment 05: Nemo Style

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One score Liam and I both really like is for the movie Finding Nemo. This particular assignment is in the style of Finding Nemo (score by Thomas Newton). That means: use of harp, pizzicato strings, and piano. Throughout the movie, different events happen, so the score ranges. I chose to do one with a bit more movement (ie. fish swimming around), whereas Liam chose something more sullen (ie. at the beginning of the movie when the Nemo's dad finds the Nemo egg.) For those who aren't familiar with the score, I've uploaded a small clip below:



This next bit is on temperamental music software. Music software is pretty high-maintenance. In that, any little change has a high chance of causing it to not work. These changes include: loading other software on the computer, connecting the computer to the internet, software updates, having other programs in use at the same time. For this reason, I (with a lot of other people who do music composition) have a completely separate computer for music only. It is not connected to the internet, and it has only the music software installed. I never do any security or software updates on it or load anything non-music onto it for fear of the headache that will ensue. This also circumvents the problem of getting sidetracked on things like the internet and messenger... (which I have a tendency to do frequently - easily distracted am I).

Liam, however, is not as fortunate... with only one computer, he made the mistake of installing a security update. That was a couple weeks ago. Yeahhh. Things still not working properly. Since he didn't have access to all his sounds, his instrumentation includes only piano and strings.

This time around, I think we're both not too excited about the pieces we came up with, but... I suppose that's just how the creative cookie crumbles. Can't write something excellent every time. My excuse? None really. I just procrastinated. :P

'til next time.