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07.29.2010 - Video Game
Some music I wrote for a video game. I don't know much about video games (the only one I really play is Mario Cart), so I don't know what to campare this one to to describe it for you. It is a sci phi, future, space based video game for iPhone. The creator made an incredibly detailed world, and story, with amazing graphics, especially considering it is for a mobile device (NOT SHOWN ABOVE).
07.15.2010 - Violin
This is the amazing Robert Landes in the studio sight reading a fiddle part I wrote for Generations. What the what!?!
07.14.2010 - How To Investigate A Murder
Generations Project season two is coming, and it looks like it is going to be very good! Here is a tune from an episode about a man investigating the murder of his grand father.
05.21.2010 - Rocks Rock
This is extremely rough, but I thought I'd give a sneak peak of the music I'm composing for a Documentary about Arches National Park. They asked me to use rocks. So that's what you are hearing. Rocks, marimba, flute, and I got a penny whistle in there too. Sort of a rocks and wind theme. Oh, and a plastic water bottle hittin those low notes. Now that's recycling.
04.07.2010 - The Showdown
The Television premier for Stories From the Life of Porter Rockwell has come and gone, but that was just the half hour version you saw. The full length is coming to a Wal-Mart near you this May. With more scenes, and of course, new music. I'm not sure yet how they'll place it, but this piece was written for the gunfight between Porter and one of the "out laws" who made a bet that he could kill Porter despite the whole hair legend.
04.04.2010 - Winter
I'm a summertime person. I like it hot. I appreciate beauty in whatever form it comes in, and winter has that in spades, but winter is also very depressing with its short days, dark gray skies, layers of clothing, and general confinement to warm buildings. I respect winter though. It's dangerous and holy. Even magical. So I wanted to capture some of that feeling before this winter is gone. I wrote this piece a couple months or so ago, and filmed what I had hoped was the last snowfall of the year at my house. I shot it on Brian Sullivan's, my friend, and now neighbor's, Sony VX 1000 that I've been borrowing (I really need to give that back, and his leaf blower). Luckily it was handy as the snow started to come down. I was afraid I'd missed the last snowfall this year... then it snowed twice after that. Has it been a long winter for anyone else?
That little kid you see at the window is my son Nigel.
04.01.2010 - Son Of Thunder
The soundtrack for the upcoming documentary Stories From the Life of Porter Rockwell is now online. You can hear it, and download it here. Enjoy.
03.24.2010 - Meet You At Porter's Place
This is some music I am working on for a documentary about Orrin Porter Rockwell. This piece is about half way done I think, but I thought I'd put it up to see what people thought, and kind of show what I've been up to in the last few days.
On a side note. Grant (Orrin) Olsen and I got to help out in the filming of the Documentary as extras for some "B" roll (flashback footage) as Missourian "mobbers". I'll post some pics when I get them. I saw footage yesterday at the Issimo Productions office. We are looking pretty badical with our torches and such, well at least Grant is. I look a bit like Michael Landon from Little House on The Prairie. Pics to come.
03.15.2010 - Helio Sequence
I feel like Helio Sequence is the family band. Seeing them brings back so many good feelings and memories.
SLC the Depot, Feb. 20.
02.17.2010 - Saint Sebastian's School for Wicked Girls
So sss4wg played last Saturday, and as you can see by this picture Jon took on his insta-film camera, Bret is drumming! His show in California was canceled, so he was able to be with us after all, so I didn't have to drum and sing.
I think it was not a bad show for being our first in nine months. We even played a couple new songs.
It was good to see my loyal readers out, and to know that I have some!
02.13.2010 - A New TV Series I Did Music For
I did music on a couple of episodes for this series, one of which I'm very excited about. So if you are free Thursday night around 7:30, come on up to the Jesse Knight Humanities Building (number 50 on the map) at BYU and check it out. The episodes are short, so you will really only be carving an hour out of your life, but it will be an hour well spent.
I should also mention that since it is at 7:30 there will be plenty of free parking.
02.12.2010 - Sesame Street "Slayer Sing-Along"
I did not do this. I just thought it was very funny.
02.09.2010 - Band Practice
Saint Sebastian's School For wicked Girls had it's first practice in almost a year tonight, unless you count Ashley Mackay's birthday party, prepairing for a show at Muse Music this Saturday. Our drummer Bret will be in California touring with his much more (real, serious, going places, actual) better band Rape Escape, I think, so we practiced as we will play, as a three piece with Cole playing my parts on the guitar, and me drumming and singing. We were a little freaked out at the beginning of the night when we sounded like it was the first time we had used our arms, but by nine-ish it was starting to look like we may not get booed off stage after all. Either way it will be an entertaining show, so come see.
01.05.2010 - Channel Eleven, PBS Kids ID
I did a whole series of these for PBS Kids, Channel Eleven, This is my favorite so far.
01.04.2010 - The Generations Project Airs Tonight!! BYUTV, 8:00!
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12.11.2009 - The Generations Project Traveling Theme
Music I wrote for whenever people travel on the show.
11.14.2009 - Jealous? I Thought So.
MY ACTUAL AWARD METAL
I just won the award for Skinniest Jeans at The Generations Project season one wrap party/award ceremony. Mom always said I would amount to something. To which I would reply "No mom. I'm too skinny"
For the record, I don't actually own a pair of skinny jeans. Those are what you call a "cigarette cut".
11.11.2009 - Real SLC
This is spot I composed for the new Real Soccer stadium. The ad is by Issimo Productions.
10.21.2009 - TGP Hawaii
This piece was actually rejected for the show, but I'm posting it because I think it is one of the best, if not the best thing I wrote for the show. I'm not bitter at all. I knew as I was writing it that it was too big. But I couldn't resist.
09.27.2009 - Typophile Five
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
09.21.2009 - September 25th
Hello all my favorite Utah readers. White On Rice is opening in Utah this Friday the 25th! So come see a great show, and hear some great music.
That's Bruce Campbell Narrating by the way.
09.18.2009 - The Generations Project Ghosts
This little gem is for when people deal with the "ghosts of their past", in the show.
09.10.2009 - White On Rice
This is a post to all my favorite LA readers and friends. TOMORROW this genius film starts playing in your area! Please go see it! I'm going to start posting scenes that I composed music for later, but in the mean time if you can guess the scenes I did the additional music on, I'll give the first person who gets all of them right $5000. You must have a scan of your Laemmle's Sunset 5 or Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 theater ticket stub to qualify so hold on to it! The contest closes on the 18th, so don't delay. I will give you a hint. There are four scenes. Good luck.
09.06.2009 - The Generations Project
This one is for a story of a Jewish family from Russia.
08.28.2009 - The Generations Project
I'm going to start posting things I've been working on as of late. I always wanted to be a consistent blogger, and now I think I have enough material that I can finally post a steady stream of work.This first few will be from the TV show The Generations Project, which will air on BYUTV in January, 2010. It's a documentary style show about people who solve mysteries in their family history using genealogy, and travel to their ancestral land to explore their heritage. Or something like that. This first piece is from a show about Ireland.
