Paul Fraser went into the CalArts composition program with the mindset that he would spend half his time making weird music, and half his time composing for animations. He’s since worked with some amazing animators, including the creators of Adventure Time. In this episode of Composer Quest, Paul shares his creative process in composing and sound designing animations. We also talk about some of his creative personal projects, like his “Weekly Splice,” where he gathers one sound every day and mixes seven of them together at the end of the week.
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Show Notes
Here are a few animations we talk about:
SHAPE from Eusong Lee on Vimeo.
Music in this episode:
- 0:00 – Original Composer Quest intro by Paul Fraser, from samples recorded by Charlie McCarron
- 0:36 – zzzzz
- 1:22 – Moving Portrait
- 1:44 – Flint Grindstone (Jingle created for Composer Quest patron Darrell St.Blaine)
- 2:24 – Climbing the Walls
- 12:07 – pale machine [EXPANSION PACK]: BONUS TRACKS – bo en
- 14:47 – Weekly Splice 4
- 15:45 – Weekly Splice 6 (pet sounds)
- 18:12 – Symphony for 100 Stylophones
- 18:52 – A Crimson Grail: Part Three (For 400 Electric Guitars) – Rhys Chatham
- 26:24 – 8-bit Cycles
- 27:04 – A Secret Rose (For 100 Electric Guitars) – Rhys Chatham
- 27:48 – Weekly Splice 3
