music
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“Strength of a Thousand Men” by Two Steps from Hell + Asura Online
This is (among other things) an attempt to use musical themes to represent certain factions, a la John Williams. The heroic main theme represents the humans, and it makes multiple appearances each time they come on screen. But if you listen closely you can hear that not all is well with this particular group of…
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“In Paradisum” by Thomas Bergersen + Samsara
This is what happens when I can’t sleep because a gorgeous song and mesmerizing video are floating around in my mind. I have been obsessed with Thomas Bergersen’s album Sun, which came out exactly one year before I discovered it. And I have always considered Ron Fricke’s Baraka as one of my all-time favorite films.…
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“Final Frontier” by Thomas Bergersen + League of Legends: Shurima
The tragic fall of Shurima was nothing compared to the tragedy of its rise from the grave. This was my very first mashterpiece, which has been a hobby* of mine for the past few years. At the time, I was just immersed in League of Legends because we were traveling around with Strawburry17 for our…
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Symphoniacal: Long Live the King
I’d forgotten just how powerful this film could be (until I made this more than twenty years after first seeing it).
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Symphoniacal finally gets a teaser.
Symphoniacal is a project I’ve been working on this a very long time. It started over a decade ago while I was basically just playing around with some audio editing software. It’s a perennial project that I revisit every time I’m inspired. I’ll never be able to publish or sell it (nor do I really…
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The Curse of the Sad Mummy
This is — at the same time — one of the best music videos and video game commercials produced by humanity.
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Respect the Dead
A haunting mix of songs and sounds intended to invoke the feelings floating around your mind while thinking about those who have left this mortal plane.
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The Scarecrow
The song you’re hearing is “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka as performed by Fiona Apple. After you see it, you’ll understand why everyone sold out to such a worthwhile video.
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Archive, Bullets, and Cyberpunk
This is what happens when you put a bottle of awesomesauce in a microwave oven for too long. I knew nothing about this game when I saw this trailer, but now I have this intense urge to play it. I think a lot of it has to do with the music. And here’s the official…
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Mumford and Sons’ “Little Lion Man”
I realize I’m behind the times for just discovering these guys, but what can I say? I’m not a hipster.
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This is mind numbingly geeky and I probably…
This is mind-numbingly geeky (and I probably shouldn’t share it publicly), but I really think growing up as a musician and a video gamer is why I enjoy switching between PCs and Macs all day. Specifically, because I use keyboard shortcuts the whole time I’m working, and the differences between PCs and Macs are subtle-but-distinct.…
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Storm across the Field
The music is José González’s version of “Teardrop” by Massive Attack. The video is nature’s version of a massive storm attacking the field in front of me. It’s mostly dark, but there are moments of brilliant lightning. This was filmed on an iPad, so it’s not as high quality as it should be. But hopefully,…
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JenniDaleLord.com
I first started doing Jenni’s website back when she was just a girl and her guitar at coffee shops. I enjoyed her music and her company, so I felt compelled to help her with her online presence. Years later, when she was gearing up to record her first album with a full band, I felt…
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Adorably Annoying Singing Toy Dog
This thing was so adorable and annoying that I had to share it with the whole world. You won’t be able to get the song out of your head.
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Skrillex’s “First of the Year (Equinox)”
The first time I heard this song it was because a friend of my girlfriend introduced us to it, and at the time they both said that they would do this to any pedophile. A year later, we found out that their friend (and the father of my girlfriend’s children) was an incestuous pedophile, but…
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Gaian Radio
This is an evolving collection of songs from across the world that embody the spirit of Gaian philosophy. It was mixed together to provide a constant stream of unifying, uplifting, and empowering music. The order in which these songs appear will change as new ones are added and old ones are removed. Not every song…
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Stand by Me (Gaian version)
“Everyone needs someone to stand by them.” This video is the very essence of Gaian. It starts out simply enough with one man and a guitar, but it slowly and steadily grows into a multicultural expression of humanism and solidarity. It’s one of the most uplifting things you’ll ever see, and it’s worth sharing with…
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Symphony of Science’s “A Glorious Dawn”
What happens when you mix art, poetry, music, science, philosophy, and genius? This video. Easily one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen. I haven’t felt this numinous since I first read Cosmos. I can’t thank the author of this video enough, and I look forward to enjoying more like it. If you only watch…
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“The Poet and the Pendulum” by Nightwish
Part 1. “WHITE LANDS OF EMPATHICA” The end. The songwriter’s dead. The blade fell upon him Taking him to the white lands Of Empathica Of Innocence Empathica Innocence Part 2. “HOME” The dreamer and the wine Poet without a rhyme A widowed writer torn apart by chains of hell One last perfect verse Is still…
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Ytsevolution
Here’s a project I have spent quite some time working on, but not nearly as much time as Dream Theater spent creating the music that went into it. This is a complete album of the nearly two decades of DT’s career. It starts with an intro that includes all of their albums, ends with an…
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The Twelve Step Suite by Dream Theater
This is a suite of four songs that I mixed together after I realized that they are parts of a larger body of work that Dream Theater is actively working on. Each song is from a different album and will likely be performed as a single piece of music once they have put it all…
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Counting Bodies Like Metzae to the Lullaby of the Pet Drums
So, it occurred to me recently that there are four different versions of the same song that I had on my computer, but it’s not immediately obvious that this is the case. I just thought it was so weird that I wanted to share it. And, besides…I wanted to share my remix anyway. A Perfect…
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Symphoniacal
This is an epic musical collage, an homage to dark and powerful film scores.
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instruMENTAL: A Dream Theater Medley
This is a piece that I mixed together when I first discovered Cool Edit Pro (which is now called Adobe Audition). It’s a wacky remix/homage/compilation thing that is made of the intense and instrumental moments from Dream Theater’s first few albums. I would like to make another one, but there are twice as many albums…