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Uni Days Vol. 1 and 2 are a collection of compilation albums, that contains some of the music I worked on during my final year at university, hence the names, all of which have been slightly re-worked and edited to fit onto two short EPs. The reason they have been sorted into two collections is due to the styles and tones of the pieces featured on the EPs.
The pieces in volume 1 are all orchestral in style and are generally quite emotive and delicate in tone.
The first track, Memories, was written for a re-score to a short film, called The Lost Piano which was a short film created for the #lostpiano scoring contest by Westwood instruments, which I missed. But I decided to write something for it anyway.
Loss and Ashes in the Wind were written as re-scores to two devastating un-scored scenes from Spielberg's Schindler's List.
Finally, A Determined Mage was written as part of a re-score to a short animated fantasy film, called Ara's Tale, that I had written alongside my final dissertation.
Uni Days Vol. 2 (2024)
Uni Days 2 contains a collection of pieces that vastly differ in style ranging from orchestral to synthesised and to electroacoustic and are all much darker in tone than the pieces in volume 1.
The first piece, Treading Darkness, is an electroacoustic piece, with masterfull Erhu recordings by Joe Hickman, that I recorded with a zoom microphone. He helped me create lots of tension as if you're treading through a deep dark forest, by playing lots of scraping sounds, tremolos, trills and extremely high notes. I also recorded some snow walking sounds to capture a sense of perspective, like you're walking through the forest yourself while listening to the piece.
Trapped is a vastly synthesised piece that was written for a re-score of the opening scene from Wan's horror film Saw. I had never written something like this before; I took a synthesised string or brass sound and mess around with the bounced audio - slowing it down a lot and adding different distortion effects to make it sound menacing to capture the same tone as the opening scene.
Catastrophe is a haunting piece of music I wrote as a re-score of the ending scene in an episode of The Twilight Zone, Nightmare at 30,000 Feet. In this scene, a plane crashes with seemingly no survivors except one, who is slowly approached by a group of disturbed people on the coast of an unknown island.
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Finally, Horcrux Hunt was written as a re-score from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, where the trio are hatching a plan to find the last few horcruxes. For this piece, I wanted to write a theme that captures the mystery of the scene and played on a low bass clarinet and contrabassoon to represent the literal darkness of the setting and the underlying tension in the scene.