Future Airlines: Archive

Feb 27th

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Feb 17th

rough draft experimenting with some new techniques...

Feb 16th

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Feb 14th

BERLINALE →

My score for the short film Enakkum Oru Per will be premiering at Berlinale this year! Check out the press release. I’ll be there! I hear Berlin is pretty cold this time of year… Time to stock up on long johns.

Jan 31st

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 20th

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Dec 5th

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Another “rescore” project! This time you’ll hear my take on the most recent Com Truise music video. The video’s the same, but as usual I’ve created a new musical score (and laser sounds!). All synth parts were recorded using analog synths and outboard effects processors. Enjoy!

Dec 3rd

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I wrote the music for this short doc over two years ago, but just now found it online. Check it out, the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center is my sister’s project and it’s awesome.

Oct 29th

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Score and sound design for a scene from the film “La Fille Sur Le Pont”, recorded with the NYU session string orchestra.

Oct 26th

Oct 20th

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My score for an animated short by Zoya Baker. My teacher Ira Newborn made fun of me because he thinks parts of it sound like the character should be riding a horse through the Italian countryside, aka way too romantic for an animated film. Deal with it, Ira! :) I’m romantic.

Oct 12th

Oct 9th

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I produced and mixed this track today, which was written by my fellow NYU film composer Noam Levy. Music starts about halfway through the video.

Oct 9th

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This film is by Greg Williams and Zahia. The original version can be seen here vimeo.com/23916767 . For fun, I stripped the audio from the original and created my own sound design and musical score. The whole project took a little under 3 days with an added day of mixing and minor tweaks.

Oct 2nd

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This is a track from a record that I’m working on right now. Excluding the kick, the sounds are constructed of short, looped samples from a track by Nexxus (John Also Bennett).

Sep 29th

Twin Souls of Sulfur

The Twin Souls of Sulfur album was started 5 years ago. Now it is finished, mixed, mastered, and released. Enjoy! &lt;a href=”http://twinsoulsofsulfur.bandcamp.com/album/twin-souls-of-sulfur” _mce_href=”http://twinsoulsofsulfur.bandcamp.com/album/twin-souls-of-sulfur”&gt;Twin Souls of Sulfur by Twin Souls of Sulfur&lt;/a&gt;

Sep 7th

Rift Store

New Seabat EP. Limited tape run for this release. &lt;a href=”http://seabat.bandcamp.com/album/rift-store” _mce_href=”http://seabat.bandcamp.com/album/rift-store”&gt;Rift Store by Seabat&lt;/a&gt;

Sep 7th

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My second piece for Bullett Magazine. To accompany this haunting dinner party in a castle, I combined harpsichord and strings from the baroque tradition with warmly organic electronic sounds. The middle section briefly exposes two fugues in different keys and tempos playing simultaneously. The exponential slowing of a wristwatch’s tick and subtle tape-speed shifts implies a flexible time in...

Jun 18th

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My updated film scoring demo reel. 3 new clips added!

Apr 18th

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This piece was written by Shruti Kumar, one of my fellow grad students at NYU. In order to realize the piece, we went to several junkyards and metal shops in Williamsburg to find resonant, percussive objects. Then, with the help of David Marenberg, I set up Ableton Live’s looper plugin to capture and repeat moments of my violin phrases. The looper was synchronized to a click track which we...

Apr 11th

No Wake

“The debut release from the Ohio/NY project Seabat. This is a polyphonic madhouse. Huge chord progressions surrounded by a sea of light and precise filtering. Notes twinkle in their own zones on this one. Hidden beats and rhythmic patterns sputter along. This is long player, but does not feel so. If you light up and listen to this, consider your mind blown. Wear headphones for you listening...

Mar 18th

If God Was Also a Triangle

Seabat - If God Was Also a Triangle by John Also Bennett Seabat - Let Everything That’s Been Planned Come True by John Also Bennett “If God Was Also a Triangle” and “Let Everything That’s Been Planned Come True” are tracks from Seabat’s upcoming cassette release, No Wake. Recorded November, 2010 in Brooklyn, NY.

Jan 16th

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“Parallel Universe” from New Earth, New Ocean.

Jan 10th

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Dummy Pilot produced this video for the new Singapore-based company City Nomads using my song “Swinging Across The Sky”. Dummy Pilot’s productions are of consistent high quality - check out their website to see more. This song is from my album “New Earth, New Ocean”, available on bandcamp.

Dec 17th

katiepierce: Twin Souls of Sulfur - Greener...

Dec 15th

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I joined up with the band Arid Hunter when I moved to Brooklyn and we just released our debut digital album. Video by George De Moura.

Dec 8th

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Katie Shima and Lesley Flanigan performing at Visual Volume as Loud Objects.

Dec 2nd

New Earth, New Ocean

New Earth, New Ocean by Oscilot I’ve just released a new album under the pseudonym Oscilot called New Earth, New Ocean. If you like this track (the title track), please go to oscilot.bandcamp.com to stream and/or buy the album! Some album notes and art are included with the download. Enjoy!

Nov 29th

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I made this video of Maria Chavez performing at Silent Barn in Queens. She played four “songs”, and this one in particular caught my ears. The serene clarity of recorded birdsong, the simplicity of sound and execution, and her mastery of the turntable itself combined to create a unique and powerful music. Visit Maria’s blog if you like what you hear.

Nov 23rd

Seabat - Understanding Holography →

In September of this year John Also Bennett and I recorded this album in my apartment. At the time I was doing some reading about string theory and trying to figure out the best way to imagine dimensions 5-11, and John was reading the book Understanding Holography by Michael Wenyon. The sound of this album stems from our shared fascination with the holographic nature of memory and...

Nov 14th

A project I recorded, mixed and mastered in the...

Nov 5th

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katiepierce: Forest Christenson has departed Columbus to get his M.F.A. in Film Scoring and we miss him dearly. But, wowzas! His collaboration with director Chip Willis is absolutely STUNNING. It’s so lovely that even though some leave this state, they still contribute their creativity. That femme fatale is my friend Natalie. An absolute natural in front of the lens. I’m just dying to meet...

Nov 5th