Hypothetical Soundtracks, by Matt Orenstein

Hypothetical Soundtracks

by Matt Orenstein

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1.	7x4 01:07		buy track
2.	Do You Want to Carry My Books (About Marine Life) 00:20	info	buy track
3.	Neon Midnight Dance 01:23	info	buy track
4.	Cracks in the Facade 01:47	info	buy track
5.	Blue Sunspots 01:27	info	buy track
6.	Pregame 01:14	info	buy track
7.	Mona Lisa Hollywood 01:58	info	buy track
8.	Eye of a Saturday Night 02:24	info	buy track
9.	Blood & Silk 02:55	info	buy track
10.	Quasar 01:50	info	buy track
11.	The Milky Way (is a Speed Trap) 01:18		buy track
12.	Electric Vapor 01:52	info	buy track
13.	Purple Ruin 01:37	info	buy track
14.	Telltale <3 01:33	info	buy track
15.	Hissing Summer, October Version 02:00	info	buy track

about

In early 2016, I moved out to LA to write movie scores. When I got here, I didn't know of any movies that needed scoring, or how to go about finding people who needed someone to write scores, but I knew I had to be here to do it. Some composer friends told me about writing music for production libraries: the databases where filmmakers or music supervisors can find stock cues and lay them into the film. I knew Bruce Haack and Delia Derbyshire had done things like this -- and I had heard some pretty cool compilation records of production music -- so I felt like giving it a shot might be a fun experiment. Maybe even a lucrative one.

There's a a tonal and technical language to this kind of work, though, and I wasn't tapped into it. My frame of reference was shaped largely by my time working at Reckless Records in Chicago, where we were steeped in the film music of the past (giallo/horror, blaxploitation, 70s sci fi, old BBC library stuff, all things Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, porn soundtracks), among a world of other things. I've also been recording my own music at home for the past twelve years, so there's a roughness to my music that I had taken pride in that I quickly found out wouldn't fly with the library music folks. Whenever someone was gracious enough to write me a rejection e-mail instead of ignoring me, they urged me to become familiar with what was being made today.

The clips in this collection were my uneducated guesses about what libraries, directors, etc. were actually looking for, as well stabs at cues from films or film tropes that were kicking around in my head. There's no unifying factor among them, except that I thought that they were marketable and was totally off base. And I wrote most of them in a bathrobe.

Most of the songs have descriptions, if you're curious to see what I had in mind when I wrote them.

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released June 26, 2018

I made all of these in 2016. C and P Matt Orenstein for Orensongs (ASCAP).

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Matt Orenstein Los Angeles, California

Hello, my name is Matt. I live in Los Angeles, and am pretty easy to find.

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