Who did the music in Peter Chungs Acme filmworks short?

Thanks for the kind words Chas. You'll hear elements of the Flux sound
in other things I've done, but this one was the most creatively
free show I ever scored. Most times on other shows there are
very specific styles I am directed to follow. On this one, the world
of Aeon Flux dictated its own style separate from any pre-existing
cultural traditions (as much as possible). No editors ever touched
the music--I wrote it all to picture in Studio Vision Pro (a dead program.)

Thank you for the answer Drew. Your a very talented artist. I already own Eye-spy and enjoy it very much, but all the wonderful ambience that I usually associate your work with never made me think you had the gift of groove also! Silly me.

BTW: I was playing the playstation game final fantasy X (10). And there were a few music cue's that reminded me a lot of your aeon work. I always wondered if you had been involved in that project?

-Chas.

Hello again Drew, I'm listening to the short soundtrack again today, I extracted it from the video to also play it as an audio file when I want to hear something uplifting, and I think I can hear your fingerprint on it now that you've pointed it out.

At first it sounded like a dance based groove that we've heard and come to expect, but it immediatly begins layering with the discernable but not obviously ambient sound. That would be good enough for me normally, but there is something not really tangible that makes this sound different to me than say other techno/ambient type groups like dangermouse or chemical brothers.

Its sounds visual, it's picturesque.

Even without watching the short and just listening to the sound, it still makes me imagine things, actions and places.
I hear it sometimes in commercial work, but not enough on cd's and albums.

I really like an ambient dance sound. Its the kind of sound that I have always admired (a combination of my two favorites) and tried to strive for in my own creations. Once again you've set a goal for me to reach for :)

Thanks again, Chas.

Thanks for more kind words! Nice to hear after a very busy week
that left me feeling a bit stretched. Demo and pilot season....
Eye Spy WAS edited together from the show
(using a crappy old copy of ProTools)
--maybe that's what you meant originally and I
misunderstood. I'm glad the music evokes images--
that's my goal with music, to achieve that
synesthesia that takes you places and tells
a story. That's the kind of music I like to listen
to (find a copy of Bermuda Triangle by Isao Tomita--
it's a trip to Disneyland and beyond!)

Final Fantasty X is very cool--my daughter has a copy of that. The
visuals are stunning. I didn't work on that one--the only video
game contribution at the moment is supplying cues for an
upcoming Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy game for Cartoon
Network.

So there weren't any "instruments" per se?

That's kinda weird, since it probably means I'll be forever without a word to describe the "instruments" I hear in the songs. Damn ye technology!

I think there is some confusion here. A metric buttload of instruments
were used--tons of synths and samplers. Read the "Eye Spy" liner notes
for a complete list. My favorite on this series was the Waldorf Wave, but
I used several samplers with natural and processed sounds
(using sounds that were mostly run through programs like Alchemy or Turbosynth)
I had additional players on some elements--like percussion for example.
Those bits were cut up and looped and played from keyboard.
Other percussive things were actually non-looped individual samples
played from the keyboards.
What I meant about ProTools is that cues from the show were
edited together to make the album.
If you mean traditional live instruments put together in a
traditional recording setting, no--there was no budget
or time for that. I personally consider synths to be a real instrument.
These days it gets more confusing/fuzzier still with plug in instruments, some
of which sound pretty okay. They weren't available back
when I did this score.

Hey thanks very much for the Isao Tomita recommendation Drew! I couldnt find Bermuda Triangle, but I checked out some other stuff, and its great! Much like "Eye Spy" its music I like to listen to when I'm doing abstract drawings.

Try Amazon--my wife found the import version there.