gesslr  |  George Napier

What do you hear between stations on the radio dial during a drive through the desert in the middle of night? It’s 3am. You’re driving across a very dark, very flat territory. There are no other cars in sight. The radio signal begins to fade. You turn the dial. You hear something strange between stations. You grab your phone to record what you’re hearing. Now share that recording. // I had been struggling with how to develop a soundtrack for a short and beautiful "leftfield" film that I had purchased the right to rescore non-commercially from the defunct filmtoscore.com several years ago. The project Marc described for Junto 407 sounded like the perfect "brief" to go with that film, so I used the film to help structure the soundtrack...and I used the Disquiet Junto project to structure my approach to scoring the film. A really nice synchronicity! I approached it as an assemblage of the old, the new, and the found. I pulled old aiff files from my HD archives (several originally were recorded between 1988 - 93 to multitrack cassette decks); Some sounds are from more current efforts; Some sounds were chosen somewhat randomly from my SFX library. All were assembled in Cubase with various and multiple effects applied, including some "eurorackery". If you want to see the discussion and other submissions for this project at Disquiet Junto: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0407-dark-pitch/ This (and more of my tracks) are here: https://soundcloud.com/gesslr/disquiet0407-dark-pitch-resuscitation-gnapier This was incredibly liberating and fun. Thank you Marc and the Junto collective.

Film score for the short 'Secrets of Angels'. Director: Toby Meakins England, 2009 Category: Experimental Submitted as part of my composition MFA final project.

A man realizes that he has become unmoored in time and space. Is he a victim of -- or the reason for -- this fate? This is a re-score of a video (with permission) submitted a part of my composition MFA final project.

Trailer for a proposed documentary.

My entry for the October 2019 contest #44 by Metapop / Native Instruments to score the Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark trailer. I used sounds from OT Metropolis Ark and Time Macro as well as instruments from NI and others.