Ham

Ham tracks that got away

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So here are some tracks that didn’t make the final soundtrack to the short film ‘Ham’. The final music was orchestral but along the creative way it had dabbled in various other soundtrack genres – spot the ‘Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind’ and ‘Cinematic Orchestra’ influences – at one point it was going to be a complete retro electro synth love-in.

The u-he TyrellN6 played a big part in the ‘Tyrell’ track (making up track titles is an art), a bit of a mash of ideas from 80’s electro to Vangelis. It’s a great free synth, at times a little heavy on the CPU when presets have a long delay. The track was a demo for the final scene, building up to the conclusion of the story. I loved it. It wasn’t used.

‘English Lessons electro’ was a mix of Logic synths and NI’s Absynth and Battery. The bassline seemed to go well with the character’s frustration and anger of learning English and life in general.

‘Opening Piano’ was borrowed from a romantic piano concerto sketch composed at another time.