Marius Masalar

A collection of short tracks written to accompany some beautiful real estate videos shot by my friend Olaf Blomerus (https://twitter.com/OlafBlomerus)

The instrumentation is fairly consistent, led by a piano in most cases and augmented with various appropriate companions.

A challenging and provocative political thriller, Little Terrors explores the other side of the story as American-raised Samih is sent by his radical parents to Afghanistan on a journey into jihad.

His difficult path raises many questions, and manages, respectfully, to answer a few of them.

I had the pleasure of scoring the film and am proud to share the score, which — like the film — is tense, subtle, and designed to offer a blend of Western perspectives and Eastern tradition.

For more information about the film, please visit:

http://www.littleterrorsfilm.com/

Here's a collection of music from the superb new iOS game, Infinite, that I had the pleasure of scoring.

To find out more about the game and give it a try, head over to the App Store:

http://marius.fm/VoNRzD

Also pay a visit to the fine folks at Nexus Game Studio who made it!

http://www.nexusgamestudio.com/

This short film score was written for a personal project that my girlfriend, filmmaker Shannon Litt, produced last summer.

It's got a pleasant, acoustic, indie vibe to it and I've finally had an opportunity to prepare and post the score, so I hope you enjoy!

This collection of short snippets accompanies a thorough review of the Cinematic Strings 2 library. Please look for the full review here:

http://composerfocus.com/reviews/cinematic-strings-2/

NOTES:
For the sake of completeness, I have tried to offer a wide spread of audio examples that capture as many facets of the library's sound as possible. I have prepared a short phrase for each of the five sections, and then bounced it out using a variety of settings and mic positions.

Because the Mix position is the default, I have endeavoured to include more examples that use it than the others, which is why you will see both High and Low position performances, as well as versions with and without a bit of external reverb (courtesy of Quantum Leap Spaces (http://www.soundsonline.com/Spaces). Please note that I have left the included Kontakt reverb settings *intact* for all Mix position examples — cues marked 'Dry' indicate only that no Spaces reverb was used. For all other mic position examples, the Kontakt reverb was turned off.

This is the story of a robot and his displacement from a familiar world to one full of strange people, customs, and noises — our own.

The blanks are yours to fill in, and at the very least I hope you enjoy the music. It was tremendously fun to put together!

Star Command lets you build your own ship, hire your crew, explore the universe, and battle alien civilizations across the galaxy.

The music is a rich blend of orchestral bombast, ambient synthscapes, and quirky cues befitting the diverse experiences you'll encounter as you play through the game.

www.mathazzar.com
twitter.com/Mathazzar

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Star Command was developed by Warballoon Games.

www.starcommandgame.com
twitter.com/StarCommandGame

My score for the stop-motion animated short film, The Meek, the Mad, and the Misinformed.

The music is enthusiastically orchestral, with some modern elements and a sense of humour. The film, produced by the extremely talented folks at Kool Koala Productions, will screen in festivals before being presented on an internet near you!

http://koolkoalaproductions.tumblr.com/

Behold the high fantasy score for Dragon Wrath, a new iPhone game produced by Faraway Frontiers! Orchestral drama mixes with a bit of synth work to produce a modern fantasy sound.

Listen, download, and enjoy!

The release of MinoMonsters for the iPhone gave me a chance not only to work with the tremendously talented Team Mino again, but also to revisit the sprightly tunes I had written before for the franchise.

I had a great deal of fun and hope the music puts a smile on your face too!

www.minomonsters.com

A couple of quirky cues from a short film by Shannon Litt.

http://film.outlittstudios.com

This is an older soundtrack from a physics puzzle game called Spectraball, available on Steam! Check it out: http://bit.ly/pMuwtj

Earlier this year I enjoyed working on a brief film exercise by director Keith Hodder called Macbeth. A short adaptation of the famous "Scottish Play", Keith's take was exceedingly modern and dark, and the score is likewise as far from traditionally Shakespearean (whatever that means) as one could get.

It broods, it rumbles, it crashes, and I hope it pleases you, m'lord (or lady).

Darkling was a short film project produced by my girlfriend, Shannon Litt. The score is brief but lovely, orchestral and thematic, with shades of Alice in Wonderland and Hook.

You can view the music in context within the film here: http://vimeo.com/21783968

This set contains the various stages of production for a track I wrote specifically for a short recording session, courtesy of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.

I recently had the pleasure of writing some music for the very exciting MinoMonsters social games where you collect and battle virtual monsters.

Find out more about MinoMonsters (and play for free!) at www.minomonsters.com.

Supastar is an iPhone game I recently provided music and SFX for. It’s wonderfully addictive and has found a permanent place on my iPhone. It was developed by the fine folks over at eBattalion and is actually 7 full games in one, so there’s a lot of value in this little package.

The music gave me the opportunity to play around with some sparkly, bright, and overtly cheerful music, largely synth-based, which I haven't been able to do since Spectraball. These are all meant to loop, of course, but these are the unlooped versions. It was great fun and I hope I manage to put a smile on your faces with it. :)

Not your average zombie film, Death Or Something Like It tells the story of a world in which the zombie plague slowly rots peoples' bodies...but leaves their intellect and behaviour completely unchanged. How can they remain integrated in society? Since they're clinically dead, do they deserve to be? You can trace the allegories for yourselves.

The premise is dramatic and challenging, which made the film a pleasure to score. These are a few of the more interesting cues from the film and I hope you enjoy them!

This touching and gentle score was written for a short film by Shannon Litt, which you can watch in its entirety right here: http://www.film.outlittstudios.com/

The score is one of my favourites from last year and is perhaps a culmination of the synth + organic instruments blend that I've been called upon to explore so often recently.

Either way, I'm glad to finally be able to put it up independently here and hope you all enjoy!

This is a collection of fairly recent tracks for a game...with zombies!

Deep is a concept album exploring the strange, dark, mythical, and mysterious environments in the depths of the ocean.

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It is a journey through fresh musical landscapes, processing techniques, synthesis methods, and sound manipulation ideas that stretched my imagination in new and exciting directions.

The music is ambient, cinematic, and colourful with rich soundscapes and evocative instrumental elements, best approached with patience and a mind open to imagery.

I hope that you enjoy it!

For a production journal and more information about the project, visit http://deep.mathazzar.com

A collection of tracks featuring nothing but taikos taikos and more taikos!

Written for the moving and funny short film written and directed by Michael L. Schmidt, 'American Wife' represents a departure from my usual styles and therefore a great creative challenge. I was thrilled to work on the film and thoroughly enjoyed developing the indie, acoustic style that captured the spirit of the footage.

This wall-to-wall action short score was written in an absurdly short amount of time as part of a fantastic 80-hour film challenge. The amazing team I worked on for the short film "Interception" put together this fun and dynamic short film, and I've done my best to furnish it with an appropriate score!

Q & A was an extremely compelling short thriller that I had the pleasure of scoring last year. It is the brainchild of director Olaf Blomerus and I highly encourage you to watch the film in its entirety here:

http://www.vimeo.com/11922796

The score is tense and dramatic, with synthetic and organic elements mingling together into a dark whole that surrounds the plaintive piano theme.

I'm happy to finally present my score to director Keith Hodder's festival-bound short film "Interception" which I had the pleasure of working on earlier this year. You are encouraged to check out the teaser trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLmKVCh-RY for a glimpse at the film.

The score is edgy, dark, and industrial with elements of more traditional orchestral instruments supporting the ambience.

This set contains all the demos I've written for Eduardo Tarilonte's fantastic and evocative library, Epic World. For more information about Epic World, please visit:

http://www.bestservice.de/detail1.asp/best_service/epic_world/en

A collection of tracks from a series of interviews created by Tochi Osuji for Ryerson University.

This is my original score to the exciting new trading card game, Shadow Era, for the iPad/iPhone/Web. More information available at www.shadowera.com.

What happens when you're restricted to just one octave of a single instrument? Well...this!

These tracks are created with nothing more than a single octave from a xylophone patch, and there are no external effects or processing plugins applied to the sound. Even the reverb is just what's built-in to the samples.

It's an exercise in creative writing under stiff restrictions. Lots of fun!

These are a selection of tracks that I've written to showcase a particular sound library or virtual instrument by a number of developers.

This is the score for a short horror film I worked on late last year called I Believe In Mary Black.

This is a showcase of my best tracks from various projects over the years. A wealth of styles is on display, and many more can be heard on my site!

www.mathazzar.com