MONTHLY PROJECT NOV-DEC '25 EDITION W/ JOSHUA EUSTIS
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The Monthly Project series allows participants to all follow a single text score prompt as their guides for composition and production. For this month we have musician, producer, orchestrator, and film composer Joshua Eustis of projects such as Telefon Tel Aviv, Second Woman, and much more. Buy Joshua's music and go see Marty Supreme and keep an ear out for them strings!
In recent months during Group Critique Fight Club, a question has continued to arise concerning our work in progress recordings: in what video game map does your piece take place? It’s a great question as it pertains to both a speculative spatiality as far as where our music would best fit, but also under what hypothetical narrative context would it best fit as well.
For this monthly project, we are to take this question a step further. You are to musically speculate on a chosen narrative theme for a fictional scene that includes a who, what, where, when, and why. This speculative scene should not come from any pre-existing visual media, though pre-existing fictional text passages are allowed. The scene description should be provided by you in text format along with the recording itself.
There are no genre specific guidelines for this project, but if you feel the need to include diegetic location recordings and foley/sfx as a means of elevating your score then you are welcome to provide them as part of the final recording.
Recordings should be 5 minutes in duration. Accompanying text should include the story “beats” if and when an action causes a reaction in the narrative so that we may mentally contextualize the musical arc to the score, I.e. “Odysseus pauses to hear the song of the Sirens and turns towards the rocky shores.”
Tracklist:
Corey - Beseeched One's Theme
Emil Haller - Acheiropoeitos
Shabax - AsWePolishThisRock
Karim - MEADOW v
Breathplay - Vision of Divinity
tollbooths- snow dream drones
ATW - signalpath
Bryson - maintenance access
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