Sunday, October 24, 2010

Avatar Pony Quadrille


Ok, as I said in the previous entry that the theme for the horse show we wrote music for was the film "Avatar". So there isn't much I can say about the sound of this score, since it was really defined by James Horner before us.

An interesting thing happened while working on this though. I had already passed the music on for the final rehearsal when it was noticed that the practise arena and the show arena aren't the same size. The practise arena was smaller so the ponies took a shorter time to ride through the program than they did in the show arena. So I hauled ass back to my gear and extended the drums and the ending for over 2 minutes. So the end result is 11 minutes and 34 second long.

In the end I believe we created an enjoyable score for the show. Take a listen yourself.


The show was performed on 24.10.2010 at the Helsinki International Horse Show.

Gear I used for this track:

DAWs and editors:
  • Cakewalk Sonar 7
  • Sony SoundForge 7
Samplers, instruments and effects:
  • NI Kontakt4
  • UVI Workstation
  • Sonar PerfectSpace
  • Timeworks Equalizer
  • Waves L3 Multimaximizer
Libraries and impulses:
  • Cinesamples Drums of War
  • Tonehammer Epic Dohls
  • Tonehammer Forgotten Voices: Francesca
  • Project SAM True Strike 2
  • Project SAM Brass
  • Sonivox Flying Hand Percussion
  • Bela D Media Sampled Landscape
  • Ilio World Winds
  • MOTU Ethno Instrument
  • Kirk Hunter Symphony Orchestra Diamond
  • Cinematic Strings Monster Staccatos
  • NI Kontakt 4 Library
  • Tonehammer Epic Hall Convolutions

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