Sample Film Projects

I love to write music for film. Every assignment is like a puzzle to solve and it’s done when the score and picture work off each other in just the right way. View the samples below. Or if you’re actively looking for music to use, view the library I’ve created of music by myself and my friends.

 
 

Why Fair Trade Chocolate Matters - Equal Exchange

Daniel Klein produced a lot of nice documentary work on food related issues when he was making his Perennial Plate series (and used a lot of music by my band in them). For this piece, he called me about a week before the deadline with the need for original music, and it was a lot of fun to help him tell this story.

Americans consume millions of pounds of chocolate per year, but where does it all come from? Forced child labor and child trafficking are a rampant, documented problem in the conventional chocolate industry, but big companies have done little to solve this crisis. So what can you do?
 

KIA South Korea

 

Perennial Plate - Episode 96

 
We made this short film in Immokalee Florida (where 1/3 of the tomatoes in our grocery stores are grown). We spent a day with Lupe Gonzalo, a tomato picker and organizer for CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers). The Coalition is fighting to change the way our country's tomato laborers are treated, as well as raise their wages by implementing a 1 penny per pound increase of picked tomatoes. Many companies (McDonalds) are working with CIW, but some are holding out (Publix, Chipotle). Please watch and share this short film about Lupe's life. Most likely, there is a wonderful person just like her picking the tomatos you buy at the grocery store. www.theperennialplate.com
 
 

Empire Builder - Kris Swanberg

I’ve worked with Kris a couple times and I think this is my favorite scene we’ve done together. At the time we both lived pretty near this neighborhood of Chicago.

 
 

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Composed and performed with my bandmates in the Orange Mighty Trio and commissioned by Square Lake Film and Music Festival, this was the first film to be featured on the Twilight Zone that wasn’t originally created for the show!

 
 

Metropolis - Fritz Lang

Re-score of these famous opening scenes of the retro future.

I have created and recorded an original score for the beginning of Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. I hope you enjoy it!
 

Westworld

Even though I didn’t win the competition (there were 11,000 entries I found out later) I liked this little project enough to include it as another example of a minimalist-influenced score.

Here is my entry for this scene from Westworld. Although it wasn't required, I used all Spitfire sounds, because that's pretty much what I use right now. #we...
 

Score for Ayurvedic Dance - Becky Heist

Produced and Directed by Becky Heist. Choreography by Becky Heist & The Dancers. Dancing by Brian Evans, Kaori Kenmotsu, Krista Langberg, Galen Treuer, Roxane Wallace. Music composed by The Orange Mighty Trio: Mike Vasich, Zach Kline, & Nick Gaudette. Filmmaker Angus Kittler Reid. Grantor by Macalester College. (St.
 
 

Spit With Purpose - Nebula Genomics

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