I just delivered the last cue for Zach Clark's new film Vacation!. It was really fun to work on, I can't wait to see it, and you should go see it when it screens near you. If you haven't seen Zach's last film, Modern Love is Automatic, go watch the trailer.
This is the first demo for the film. Each instrument entrance is the beginning of a sub-section of the two minute scene. The instruments chosen were first flirtations with assigning a sound to each character, each of which turned out to be all wrong. But this is why I love demos: They offer a chance to fall irrationally in love with a thought and then abandon all but one element.
Sonically, this was the starting point to head in a completely different direction. All of the instruments started sounding too simply musical, so I selected some new ones that felt more like sounds than instruments and built one and two note fragments into phrases and then phrases into samples and samples into cues. I wish the xylophone and bass clarinet had survived. As much fun as everyone seems to be having with cross-genre classical music recently celeste, harp, and strings seem to be having all the fun. Next time.
It's worth mentioning the aforementioned element that survived this round of demos is stasis. Anticipation without resolution ended up playing a major role in the overall feel of the music. Look for a download of the finished soundtrack in late June January - or really just before the US premiere, which is ostensibly in January. I'll keep you posted.
