Here are the first four music tracks I ever attempted. Mostly I had WAV files of movie quotes on my computer and editing audio was still very new to me. As in I had just cracked some software earlier in the same day which would allow me to edit audio and thought I would give it a try.
The following is a collection of original music I composed in 2002 – 2004. It was supposed to be the music soundtrack to a movie I had in my head, sometimes wacky, sometimes scary.
Whatever, you figure it out. I’ll list the songs here in order with some kind of description so you can download them and make a playlist.
Because you have nothing better to do, right?
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The Beginning – Communication to aliens, an unknown person enters a global communications center during a rainstorm and uses the radar systems of the airport to send out a coded message activating the alien robot invasion.
All Systems Go – Robot Invaders Activated
Space Station Attack – Science vessel on the limits of mankind’s defenses. The doctor and assistant are the only ones on board. Eventually, hiding is no longer an option and Johnny uses one of the experimental beam weapons to repel the robot intruders.
Meanwhile on Earth – The main character is introduced, let out of the hospital into the outside world he is overcome. Through the empty hallways of the hospital, we find the hero with his head bandaged, in hospital garb, spacey as if he doesn’t know where he is, suddenly he looks up and he is out on the streets of the city, bustling activity. Humans. And it is too much, overwhelmed he falls to the ground in the city park.
Didgeridoo Crap – Aboriginal music and long-range satellite communications and tv transmitter towers. Static invades and seems to overpower the timeless communication with the spirits as practiced by aboriginal communities all over the world.
A didgeridoo thing at that mountain gets interrupted by robot invaders from space, aliens kick some human ass.
Aliens Invade Australia – The floating robots from the attack on the science space station have arrived on earth and waste no time in eliminating fleeing half-naked Australian aboriginals.
Psychodessy – The hero having a hard time readjusting? Resting in his non-air-conditioned halfway house he watches the electric fan and falls partially asleep. He is raised up, lifted out of his body and is riding in an airliner, a commercial jet, looking out the window as clouds roll by under him. All of a sudden he is in the local bar. Someone trying to talk to him he is not able to be understood. Then he is back in his room, on his bed with headphones on listening to digital noise.
Mellow Back Beat – He meets a girl, she is beautiful and he feels drawn to her, starts to follow her. She stops for a moment and he gets a good look, like it was in slow motion. She is about to get into her expensive German automobile when…
Reengineed Scratch – To break up the scenes
Alien Robots Attack – From their perspective, they are falling from the sky scanning the local population for potential attacks. Crushing buildings, swatting away humans – the robots or whatever are upon them and they have to leave.
Reengineed Scratch – To break up the scenes
Car Racing 101 – “Get in!” he says – it hasn’t happened everywhere yet but he expects it to. He looks at her as if she has a shelf expiration date. The hero and girl getaway, someone chases, they lost em?
Reengineed Scratch – To break up the scenes
Wasteland of America – Driving – Outside the city, maybe our love isn’t so important, maybe this needs to be looked at, the destruction and pollution of our own living space. Kids with bags of recycled cans to pay the food bills for their family walking the side of the roads. Pollution. Greenhouse gas emissions. Smokestacks. City lights, yellow from argon lights in the tunnel as they pass outside the city.
Under a Tree – Picnic style, the hero and his new girl sit, from the woods a dark creature watches, grrr, eager to use his machete. That’s it, rabbit time, machete slices the air in kung fu style as the creature moves from darkness into the light of day, blade swinging. Hero moves quick and dodges the swings like lawnmower blades over his head he runs in the only way he knows how, away from his girl, maybe at least she will get away. He ducks, he dodges, in his underwear, he runs across the field chased by the 7 foot giant in the leather mask. A human, crazy, who knows what the protagonist did.
Need a realization that it is the hero who brought the robots down to end mankind song and the robots turn on him.
Chase and Kill Loop – This is the chase in close, looks back by the hero, obviously afraid, running, unarmed against a machete.
Though he is able to stop the complete destruction of mankind he is unable to stop the death of the girl he loves.
A Hero Falls – And he fell to the ground, despite the swings of the aggressor’s machete he was unharmed.
Spooky End Titles – Protagonist sets off on robot revenge
Taking myself much less seriously, here is pretty much the same music, played in one MP3 compilation, during which I get progressively more drunk with every song.
If that’s not drunk enough for you, how about when I drunkenly tried to make my own version of the Django theme song?
Or any of these songs I made while hammered out of my mind… or the Chris Miller Show theme song… Or the Better Than Static audio track which was supposed to be another cable access show, or maybe even a movie. Imagine a guy with a bandaged head, dazed, walking out of a mental hospital. Out into the streets of busy downtown Providence… the version here cuts off at that point and the rest of the episode is lost… what’s here is used in the playlist above. Oops. Not like Psychodessy wasn’t also supposed to be a short film.