Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Composing from a Chord 1
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Composing from a Chord 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will cover an alternative, more traditional approach to scoring, using a chord or melody as the basis of the composition. Often in modern scoring, the two techniques are combined for fascinating results. We will start by finding a key and tempo, before scoring the same course project scene and seeing what the director likes best. ”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Composing from a Chord 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Theory and Scoring for Film. Learn how to score a film collaboratively, using your music to convey a feeling and tell the story..
Partial transcription of the video
“ Composing from a Chord In this lesson, we'll learn how to take the sounds we've found and start writing with them. We'd like to find a central idea to base the whole cue off. In this instance, it might be a chord or maybe a home note to base everything off. I like working from a chord or establishing a strong home note because then when you depart from that, it makes a statement. It's quite subtle too. Let's see what we can do. You can see that I changed some of these sounds and I found a few that I liked that feel right for this film. I'll show you a couple of them. My favorite one is th...”
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Course summary for: Music Theory and Scoring for Film
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Audio, Music, Music Production
Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
Juan Dussán is a New York-based film composer. Since he was a young child learning the piano, he knew he was destined for a career in the arts. He graduated with a Master’s in Composition studies at New York University and has since worked on over 30 films as a composer, including Francesca Scorcese’s Crimson Ties, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and Wells Watson Jr’s short film Wendigo.
Alex Wakim is a New-York based composer. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, from films to video games. He scored the Sony game Horison Forbidden West alongside Oleksa Lozowchuk. His music for the documentary film Glen Eden has been screened at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It has been heard through the festival circuit at Raindance Film Festival, Doc NYC, Vail Film Festival, the Arab Film Fest, Tallgrass Film Festival, and more.
Juan and Alex co-founded an advertising music storytelling house called Dekatu Scoring. They have worked on commercials for Air Company, Hourglass Cosmetics, and ILIA Beauty.
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