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Sample Application

SAMPLE APPLICATION:

For all questions where spoken word answers are used, audio/video should be hosted via a cloud service of your choosing. Please link to the audio/video file in the relevant question field.

BASIC INFO:

Name:

Email Address:

Current City:

Bio (max 1000chars):

YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE:

How would you self-describe the current stage of your creative practice: emerging, mid-career, or long-established?

Describe your experience (if any) in composing for film, television, or other moving-visual media (rec 200-300w or 2-3 min spoken video, max 400w or 4 min spoken video):

Describe your experience with a professional project where you had to collaborate with other individual(s). What was the project? What were the roles? What did you find most rewarding and most challenging? (rec 300-400w or 3-4 min spoken video, max 500w or 5 min spoken video):

Describe your experience and comfort level with the following software application types. Note that facility with these software types will be used to determine project workload but otherwise has little weight on composer selection (rec 200-300w or 2-3 min spoken video, max 400w or 4 min spoken video):

  • Notation Software (e.g. Musescore, Finale, Sibelius, Dorico)
  • DAWs (e.g. ProTools, Reaper, Audacity)
  • Video Editing Software (e.g. DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere):

What is it about this project and/or collaboration with Versipel New Music and Cale Jayden that excites you the most? (rec 200-300w or 2-3 min spoken video, max 400w or 4 min spoken video)

Why is this opportunity important or meaningful to you at this point in your creative practice? (rec 200-300w or 2-3 min spoken video, max 400w or 4 min spoken video)

YOUR AVAILABILITY:

  • Are you able to commute to New Orleans easily on a regular and consistent basis?
  • What is your availability to meet during weekday business hours?
  • What is your availability and willingness to be on call?

YOUR WORK SAMPLES:

Original Music:

Submit up to two work samples of any music in your creative practice. At least one work sample should be written for a minimum of four instruments (duplicates allowed) from within the following instrumentation:

  • mezzo-soprano
  • piccolo/flute/alto flute
  • clarinet/bass clarinet
  • alto/tenor/baritone saxophone
  • violin
  • viola
  • cello
  • piano/synthesizer
  • percussion

Each work sample should include:

  • A PDF of the Full Score
  • Representative sample audio and/or video of the work. Accurate MIDI realizations of acoustic works are acceptable if no live recording is available.

Both audio and video samples should be hosted on a streaming (YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, etc.) or cloud (Dropbox Google Drive, Box, etc.) service and not uploaded directly into the application portal.

Audio Demo Reel:

The following is a link to a video draft reel from THE EMPRESS OF DANCE. For this reel, submit up to three different audio samples that demonstrate your potential approach to the reel’s soundtrack. These three samples may be highly contrasting in their approach and may come from any of the following:

  1. The creation and recording of new music for the reel. An accurate representative MIDI realization of this music is acceptable if a live recording would be impractical.
  2. A recording or spliced recording of your existing work(s) that you believe best represents the reel. An accurate representative MIDI realization of an existing work is acceptable if no live recording is available. Segments from the Original Music submission above may be used again if needed.
  3. A link to an existing recording, partial recording, or spliced multiple recordings of any music publicly available that you believe best represents how you would approach the reel’s soundtrack.

It is not required that you combine your audio samples with the demo reel, but you may do so if you wish. Regardless, the audio file should sync and match directly with the demo reel (0:00 in the audio file should align with 0:00 with the demo reel).

Audio and/or video samples should be hosted on a streaming or cloud service and not uploaded directly into the application portal.

From the Director:

I’m looking for the score to tell the same story that David is in this interview, not only emotionally but also in how the music interacts with the pacing, cuts, and dialogue. Think of this as a compatibility test between your score and my editing!

There’s a lot of emotional/aesthetic tones in David’s story, but the particular ones I want to emphasize are these: 1) inspiration, 2) introspection, and 3) triumph (think grand! think royal!)

These three tones can mean different things to different artists, I’m looking forward to hearing what your musical interpretation is of those feelings.

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