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The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
pre-show environment and Constantine's Pre showRiley Merrill
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This is work done for an in class project. The concept being that the only music heard throughout the show is because of Constantine. The sample above is an environmental soundscape serving as pre-show for the production itself that fades into music that is used as pre-show for his play.
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Act III TransitionRiley Merrill
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Environmental sounds are used in transitions to demonstrate the time of year and changing of seasons. The Act III transition in particular contains a gun shot because it is in the transition from Act II to Act III that Peter attempts suicide as heard from outside the house. This is an environmental soundscape with a gunshot covered with a low pass filter.
Out of Room WaltzRiley Merrill
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The next time music is heard is not until the last act when Constantine is playing the waltz off stage and over curtain call when the waltz is played again but this time it's "empty." The music is disturbed because now that the music is gone from there lives, it's wrong.
Music: Waltz for John and Mary by David Arnold and Michael Price
Music from:
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) orch.
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914)
The Fair at Sorochinsk Hopak
Completed by Liadov in 1904.
Yevgeni Svetlanov (1928-2002), conductor The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Recorded in 1974. Re-release from 1982. ​
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Empty Waltz Riley Merrill
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Music: Waltz for John and Mary by David Arnold and Michael Price
Soundscape and Underscoring Project
As part of a Sound Design class we were required to create soundscapes for three pictures and one picture was required to have an original underscore.
Music: String Quartet No. 2: III. Notturno by Alexander Borodin, performed live by Dover Quartet for Brooklyn Classical.
Dinner PartyRiley Merrill
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For this Picture, I layered a string quartet with a low pass filter on top of restaurant ambiance with a recording of an actress saying the line, "Fuck you, Carol." and I cut the table flipping sound and people gasping from "Psycho Kid Ruins Thanksgiving Dinner," on YouTube.
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This was my original underscore using Music Maker Jam to create a sunrise over the Vatican including environmental sounds such as the river running and traffic that fades in to signify the start of the day.
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Sunrise over the VaticanRiley Merrill
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Guitar in the SnowRiley Merrill
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Music: "Casey's Song" From the Whiplash Motion Picture Soundtrack Composed by Justin Hurwitzz.
This final picture I decided to use the idea that the man with the guitar is exiting an older, rundown jazz club but is heard from the point of view of the person taking the picture, and then it ends with the door closing. There is the sound of music coming from the club, echoing down the street, traffic in the snow heard from a distance as there is no traffic in the picture and finally the footsteps of the guitar player walking away. The song has both a reverb and a low pass filter on it, and the traffic at a lower volume level then the other tracks.
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Commercial Underscoring Project
For this assignment I was required to change the underscoring of a commercial. I chose to use the HEINZ Ketchup 2016 Weiner Stampede Commercial and changed the underscoring to The Ride of the Valkyries to create a possibly even more comedic effect then the original commercial.
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The original commercial is on the left and the commercial with my underscoring is on the right.
Music: Ride of the Valkyries - from "Die Valkyrie"
Performed by: American Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Richard Wagner
Record format: Edison Diamond Disc
Matrix number: 7846-B-1-6
Recording date: 1921
Release number: 80638-R
Release date: December 1921
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 4187
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https://archive.org/details/EDIS-SRP-0197-06
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