This piece is a musical integration of various moods in terms of themes with a variety of different time and key signatures melted down into a single 2-minute track which would be mixed in 5.1 to receive the immersiveness.

The media asset is an orchestral piece that is entirely composed by Vaishnav Satheesh. The orchestral piece mostly has a mixed scale approach which triggers different kinds of emotions when played.

I was Vaishnav's co-partner for this project and I helped him to get through the arrangements and organisation of the recording. The recording dates, artist availability, artist communication, studio bookings and project management, miking the Fukada Tree with Vaishnav the day prior to recording.

Anna Tomaszewska helped us on the day of recording, when SSL Duality crashed, she was able to quickly arrange Behringer X32 for us and was also operating it. Picture below.

Lloyd Gess helped us on the day of recording with troubleshooting and with his audio engineering skills. Picture of Lloyd below.

SPECIAL THANKSto the Tech Team who spent there more than one hour of hard work

SPECIAL THANKS to Jan Muths who borrowed us the Behringer X32 even though he needed it that day

SPECIAL THANKS to ALex and Sibin from the film department for their assistance

This work was entitled as a portfolio piece for the 'Vaishnav-Karthik' youtube handle making it a demo piece to be shown to the film directors and producers. The final aim of the recording was to layer it with the midi strings in order to get the huge grand orchestral sound. The final product of the recording was stereo tracks, comped and time fixed with respect to the mic and played sections.

PROCESS

The score is all about various emotions coming together weaving a complex Mixolydian feel. The inspiration for this score is derived from various Hollywood scores such as dark knight, Jurassic park and Star Wars. We followed and interpreted the works of composers ranging from Mozart to Hans Zimmer and created various key signature-changing elements with signature differences making it a different new concept in terms of score.

This being considered as a portfolio project for Vaishnav, we did want some heavy jazz chord change happening in the legato lines which is not used in the conventional orchestral scores. This was purposely thought in order to impress the fellow directors, composers and producers whom Vaishnav would pitch for projects.

We aimed to make the score in Logic pro with the exact sounding and articulation and planned to get it layered by musicians. In the ideal scenario, the score has to be played by large orchestral sections which was not possible for us due to financial constraints. So, to get the naturality and feel, layering the top lines with a quartet section and midi production with high-quality sample libraries was our idea to pull this off.