Check out this New Orchestral Piece ♬♪♫♪

Listen to the piece, “Overture to an Adventure”

featuring flute, clarinet, horns, piano, strings, and percussion

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Check out the most recent additions to my Discography

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All Original Music and Recordings ©℗ SARAH VAN SCIVER.

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Check out my latest piece: “Lights, Camera…”

Listen to the piece, “Lights, Camera…”

featuring synths, foley FX, guitar, bass, piano and percussion

Check out more of my music

Check out the most recent additions to my Discography

Check out my new album

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New Piece! A Road Tripping Country Song

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.

New Movie: PRE-MEDitation // Sound Editing and Film Scoring

“PRE-MEDitation”

*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.

New Project: Foley Fiction – a Soundtrack without a Film

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.