Friday, October 9, 2009

Assignment 04: Fairy Tale Land

He wrote:

She wrote:

The theme for this exercise was "Fairy Tale," that is, in the style of Danny Elfman in Edward Scissorhands. So the guidelines given were pretty sparse - just fairy tale-like, using 2 very fairy tale sounds: glockenspiel and choir. That combo seems to make a piece sounds mystical, and magical. It's weird... there is something about fairy tale music that makes it fairy tale.

So my music buddy was saying how it's kind of sad how the comments are always at "0". I know there are only like 3 readers for this blog, but if you listened to the song, comment! Say something! So we know this is not all in vain.

My glockenspiel "ding" is cut off :( I must do better mixing. I am not a mixer. I am a writer. Boo.

1 comment:

Andy LeBlanc said...

I know I promised that I would comment with regularity and then proceeded to not comment once, but that's just because I'm a slow starter. From now on, you shall receive a bounty of comments.

I liked these. I have no musical vocabulary with which to comment on these or criticize them. They both definitely sounded Danny Elfman-y. I thought it was interesting that while both songs have a Danny Elfman creepiness to them, yours transitions into a kind of happy ending, and the other one doesn't.