For the last few months I have been working on the main theme for a new web series, Dark Frontier: The Original Series.
I've worked for a couple of years now on all things Dark Frontier related, but musically have always took the orchestral route. So naturally I wanted to take a new direction with this new series of Dark Frontier.
I rarely take the non-orchestral approach but it's important to broaden your style of writing now and again and there's nothing challenging about writing in the same style all the time.
In keeping with this different approach, it's the first theme I've wrote, for a title sequence I haven't seen! Casey, the director, will be working on the visuals over the next few months, putting the images to my music and it was really liberating to be able to compose freely for a change, without thinking of hit points.
It's great to have creative freedom in my work, and it's the third Dark Frontier theme I've wrote. I wanted the following ingredients in my theme:
- Vocals and voicings of SubVision's Farscape theme
- Electronic style and pacing of Yoko Kanno's Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex theme
- Dark, primal/tribal percussive elements of Danny Elfman's Planet of the Apes (2001) score
It's one of the most original compositions I've ever wrote and I loved writing it! A lot of work has gone in to this theme. Casey and I have been sending each other ideas back and forth for months and from what little preproduction I've seen the music's really going to fit the style of this new series. It's dark, it's gritty, it's unique, and it's something I'm proud of!
I can't let you hear it yet as filming for this upcoming web series will start later this year, so I'll post a link to the title sequence when it becomes available!
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