Composing & Orchestrating for Video Games...

Hi,

I’ve recently finished the “Interactive Scoring for Games” course from Berklee, and I’ve made a lot of music for it.

One of the challenges was to create two themes for a game and then orchestrate these themes to be used in an interactive context. I thought it would be interesting to show these “raw” themes and the orchestrated counterpart, so you could observe how important is the arrangement and orchestration process to transform a song/track.

The themes were inspired from the Playstation 4 game “The Last Guardian” (amazing original score, please check it out at Spotify).

Theme A is for the children protagonist, here’s the piano sketch:

Theme B is for Trico, the “beast”, piano sketch:

Now, the orchestrated versions!

Theme A “the Children”:

Theme B “Trico the beast”:

I’ve tried to orchestrate in a very “Japanese” fashion way, inspired by the works of Joe Hisaishi (he worked in all the Myasaki animation films from Gibli and Takeshi Kitano films). It’s a “mélange” of classic orchestral writing but with some jazz harmony in it, to simplify.

What do you think of it?

Thank you for listening, see you soon with more goodies :)

First collaboration with Rocky Studio!

Hi,

I'm starting to work with this great production company, the Rocky Studio, who's been shaping the new advertising standards in terms of quality!

Here is the making of from the last Garnier campaign, with my music:

Working with TheFlyingMan!

Hi,

It's a great pleasure to introduce you to this really good production company, The FlyingMan.

They have a great team of young cats with really sharp video and design productions skills, and it as been a pleasure to produce sound and music for that kind of high value work. 

It's one of a kind company in Portugal, take some time to check it, you won't regret it (especially if you like to travel...!). 

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New site, new style, new music!

Hello!

It's a pleasure to present my new website. Besides from being the place to introduce myself and show part of my music production, I'll hope to bring various news and contents about my passions in music. 

See you soon and leave comments as you like!