I finished a song I had been working on for some time. The piano parts had been lying around in some form, but I had not been able to construct a song from them. Until now. I had recorded the pianos without a metronome, which is a bit problematic when you want to add percussion [...]

Composer and orchestrator Thomas Goss has a great video series on Youtube called Online Guide to Orchestration. He goes through the different elements and techniques of the craft in an interesting manner. He also has great score-reading videos in which he breaks down classical pieces, one of which I’ve embedded as an example below.

I present you with a new song called Stars, which turned out pretty nice. It ponders the distant future of human race. If humans travel to the stars someday, will the colonists separated by huge distances and living in differing environments evolve into distinct species, unable to reproduce with others colonies? Or will they mingle [...]

Portugese director Miguel Peres asked to use two of my songs for his short film A nossa última conversa (Our Last Talk) and I was more than happy to oblige. The film was featured at Festroia film festival in Portugal. Check it out. Below, for your enjoyment, are the complete tracks.