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Buffalo Composer Featured on NPR's Morning Edition for Sci-Fi Theme Music

Buffalo Composer Featured on NPR's Morning Edition for Sci-Fi Theme Music So very excited to have my sci-fi version of the Morning Edition Theme Featured today at NPR! :) The NPR Morning Edition team offered a musical challenge: rewrite the Morning Edition Theme. For fun, I decided to go all spacy and crazy with it! Check it out!  LISTEN TO MORNING EDITION NOW: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/18/478488972/-morning-edition-sci-fi-theme-is-out-of-this-world The Composer's Wacky Spacy Inspiration I imagined what would happen if the entire Morning Edition Staff found themselves stranded on the planet Mars in a retro-1980s parallel universe , complete with cheesy bedazzled astronaut suits and neon lights, surrounded by Dalek -inspired cyborgs. I plucked out he main theme on the keys and added in some dissonance and bent pitches to fit the bizarre spacyness of the track playing in my head. I added in the requisite synthesizers, a slight beat, and droid-esque sound ef...

What Everyone is Saying about the Strange Films and Soundtracks of Sabrina Pena Young: Music Review

What Everyone is Saying about the Strange Films of Sabrina Pena Young Recently Chrissie Caulfield from Radio Free Midwich decided to take on the daunting task of reviewing  my recent releases  The Futurist Music Anthology: The Electroacoustic Mind of Sabrina Pena Young  and  Science Fiction & Horror Movie Soundtrack Collection: Strange Films of Sabrina Pena Young  by the talented Chrissie Caulfield.  You will find her writing engaging and will find yourself wanting to find out more not only about the music but about the myriad of references that she uses to describe the decidedly "strange" world of electroacoustic music . Her writing is story-like and takes you on an otherworldly journey. Read the Complete Review here:  https:// radiofreemidwich.wordpress. com/2015/12/17/dreams-of-the- future-chrissie-caulfield-on- the-worlds-of-sabrina-pena- young/ " In some ways this feels a little like Blade Runner as done by Paul Auster .  ‘Lu...