New string orchestra piece for two solo violins, violas, cellos, contrabasses, and marching percussion.
Enjoy –> NYR No. 5 in A minor (“the Final March”).
New string orchestra piece for two solo violins, violas, cellos, contrabasses, and marching percussion.
Enjoy –> NYR No. 5 in A minor (“the Final March”).
New (Short) Piece: Dancefloor Daydream
features percussion, synthesizers, vocals, guitar, and horns.
stay tuned for lots more new content coming, soon 🙂
(An overdue) thanks to Jon R. Friedman for having me be a part of his series of musicians’ portraits!
this rural highway road trip ends badly, but I hope you enjoy the piece just the same.
the piece was inspired by a friend recounting finding a pair of crosses along the highway bearing the names “Mitch” and “Hog.” Consider this song these characters’ final highway adventure.
the song features tambourine, drums, guitars, mandolin, and pedal steel guitar.
Listen, HERE.
This is the second of my two final projects for “Sonic Measures,” a Sound Design course I took this spring with Professor Terry Adkins and Marc Blumthal.
The assignment was to take some video footage which was primarily visual in nature (and natural – not a performance) and to use sound design to enhance the raw footage. In Logic, to enhance the audio already present from the video (which was full of ringing church bells which inspired the sound design,) I used raw waveforms generated in Audacity and used time, pitch, and layering effects and reverberation to create a soundscape full of sounds that are evocative of bells or otherwise mimic bells’ characteristics.
The video footage was taken on College Green at Penn, and between 36th & 34th Streets // between Locust Walk and Walnut Street over the course of several afternoons at around the same time, thus having clock bells tolling in all of my footage.
This is one of my two final projects for “Sonic Measures,” a Sound Design course I took this spring with Professor Terry Adkins and Marc Blumthal.
The assignment was to take some video footage which was primarily visual in nature (and natural – not a performance) and to use sound design to enhance the raw footage. In Logic, to enhance the audio already present from the video (which was very distorted,) I used percussion, foley water sounds, and other effects and reverberation to create a soundscape to highlight this bird, stalking prey along the shoreline.
The video footage was taken on my Droid cellphone in Sarasota, Florida.
*FEATURING*
Jon Lee Andrade …as… JON
Sarah Elizabeth Zerod …as… SARAH
Thalia Stanberry …as… PROFESSOR STANBERRY, PARTY-GOER #1
Tyler Altenhofen …as… PARTY-GOER #2, himself
Sarah Van Sciver …as… PARTY-GOER #3, herself
Chadwick Prichard …as… himself
*WITH*
STORY, SCRIPT, CAMERA WORK …by… Chadwick Prichard, Sarah Van Sciver, and Tyler Altenhofen
VIDEO EDITING and VISUAL EFFECTS …by… Chadwick Prichard and Tyler Altenhofen
SOUND EDITING and ORIGINAL MUSIC …by… Sarah Van Sciver
*SPECIAL THANKS TO*
Professor Ellen Reynolds,
the DV Lab and its staff,
the Rodin Cafe and its staff,
Final Cut Pro 7,
Logic Pro 9,
Finale 2012,
…and…
everyone at the Equipment Cage and Addams Fine Arts Building.
Hope you enjoy this final project for Penn’s Video 1 course.
This was my final assignment for my Electronic Composition Class at Penn with Professor Primosch. Almost all featured sounds are made from manipulated sine waves, chirps, or (mostly) recordings of me singing or speaking or making noise into a microphone. I recorded a crowd of students throwing frisbees as well as some ambient city sounds in the middle of the night, but those samples were used sparsely and every sound in this project is ‘foley.’
Here is a narration to guide you through this film soundtrack [without a film]:
Incognito at his daytime desk job at the office, an assassin receives an assignment via telephone. He clears his desk, packs his bag, quickly grabs his keys, and walks casually to the elevator around the corner from his cubicle. He takes the elevator down four flights, then its doors open onto a train station. Crossing a platform, pop music plays on the radio. The assassin walks through the station unnoticed to his parked motorcycle. Across the platform, the assassin boards and starts his motorcycle. He rides the motorcycle through a windy set of tunnels, until… he reaches a large crowded roadside restaurant. He parks his motorcycle, strolls along the sidewalk until he reaches a table in the middle of the street-side seating where – he fires a single shot, eliminating his target. In the wake of his crime’s commission, the assassin skulks away unseen.
I created this project using Audacity and Logic Pro 7.
Enjoy: HERE IT IS.
Graduating, soon, I have been thinking a lot about my time at Penn, specifically acting as an arranger, conductor, music director, soprano/mezzo, studio producer, and board member of Dischord A Cappella. Dischord is a co-ed group that was founded at the University of Pennsylvania back in 1998. The group performs a cappella covers spanning all genres – pop, indie, rock, country, jazz, folk, world, and fusion. Under my direction, the group has featured many mash-ups and medleys in its covers.
You can read a full account of my arranging credits for the group, here: Sarah Van Sciver, ’13, Soprano
Solo performances at our semesterly concerts:
I am an arranger for hire! Professional or non-professional vocal groups of all experience levels — all-male, all-female, or co-ed — contact me if you are interested in having something arranged.
Soundtrack for film “Days and Days” now online!
for an original film by Richard Bellamy.
score features strings and piano.
enjoy!
Cover features piano, lead soprano + backing trio (soprano, mezzo, alto)…
–> check out the cover:
[I’m singing and playing all parts.]
…and of course check out the original — Regina Spektor is AMAZING. Saw her in concert last year in Boston at the Orpheum, and she and her husband and both of their bands were fantastic live!
my UPenn a cappella group, Dischord, just had a spring concert last weekend on 4/6. Here are links to songs I arranged or co-arranged with other members that were performed at the show:
I Want it That Way/Boy band Mashup
Morning Song (<– I’m the soloist on this one)
find out more about Dischord HERE
come see the show! –> RSVP here
thanks for listening!
check these out:
I co-produced Baltimore Ave and was the only producer for Lights Out, and I can’t wait to be in the studio again this spring with Dischord!