Pencil Award

I was over at my good friends the Sullivan's house Monday night working on some song writing techniques with Mia and watching the trailers for a movie Brian shot, and while hanging out on the porch with Linda we started talking about how much clout the Typophile project has been getting lately.

Linda is one of the heads of the graphic design department at the BYU, and the project was somewhat of an assignment from her. She mentioned that the piece had won two awards, and seems to be all aver the internet. I told her that I was well aware, and attributed the internet success to Jon Canlas putting the You Tube video on his very highly viewed blog. I'm aware of its professional success because Cole is skipping out on our current project (for a whole week) to go to New York to accept one of the awards.

"Oh Micah, you should be going to New York too", said Linda.

"I know right? I'd love to, that would be so cool", I said.

"No. I mean it, you really should go."

"Yeah, I know. I wish I could."

"I'll have BYU buy you a ticket.”

“What? Really?”

“Sure, we should have thought of this before. I’ll email you your itinerary.”

Then there was a bunch of whooping and jumping around in celebration. But it gets better. This morning I called my cousin Jaron who lives in Manhattan, to see if he’d let me stay at his place after the seventh, since we won’t have our hotel anymore. He’s letting me, but the point of telling you this is the fun dialog that followed.

Jaron, “What are you coming out for?”

Me, “We won an award for the Typophile video.”

Jaron, “Oh yeah? Which one?”

Me, “I don’t know”, (off the phone) “hey Cole, what is the name of this thing we’re going to?”

Cole, “The One show?”

Me, into the phone, “The One show.”

Jaron, “You won a Pencil??”

Me, “Is that an award?”

Jaron, “You guys won a Pencil?”

Me, “Is that good?”

Jaron, “That is VERY good.”

Me, “Wow, I had no idea.”

Jaron, “Can I borrow it sometime?”

Me, “Sure.”

Jaron, “I just want to take it into a job interview (he works for an advertising firm)… be like ‘you guys got any place I could set this?’ ” (Jaron is very funny.)

Me, “Any time. I don’t think I actually get to have it, but I’ll be sure to get a picture with it. Maybe get a replica made......"

Any way, we are all now very excited.

Nice

Lost Parties, and Picnics

I'd just like to take this time to say how much I love all my friends and family, who are also my friends. So I'm dedicating this piece to you, even though it has nothing to do with friends or family. I wrote it for a documentary I'm working on, that I'll blog more about later. This is called George Washington.

Show

This was one of the early ideas for the Typophile project. I sketched out a lot of ditties before nailing down the tune that we could all get behind, and would eventually evolve into the the final product, like everything, but this one is one of my favorites so I thought I'd share it. I used pretty much the same instruments as the post from yesterday, surprisingly. Also it may seem like a studied and classically trained opera singer sweeping in toward the end there, but nope. That is actually me. I know right? You'd never know. Fools me sometimes.

I Over the Oceans Go

These are the instruments I used to make this song happen. Casio's Casiotone CT-310, my trusty Fender DG-7, and The Redrum application in Reason comes in later. Also I guess my voice and Protools too. I just thought I'd mention because I found great pics of all of them on the internet!

Adventures in Music for Motion Pictures

These are pieces of one very long piece I did for a Pilates workout video (see example below). If you'd like to hear the whole thing, do some reps or something, click here.

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

This song was written for the closing credits for a film, but we ended up not using it, in favor of something bigger and more orchestral. So this is rough and not mastered. Also the lyrics are still scratch (to be written later) since we went in a different direction. So you may notice the Candy Land bit, and the opening line is stolen too, but I can't remember what it's from. If you do (Dann) let me know. Also I'm testing out a new player so I hope it works. If not I've got the hyper link.

Olympic Tourch Runner

This little gem was composed for a branding video for a company called Synopsys. Cole Webley directed it for the production company Kineto. You can see the video here just click on "branding" then "The Challenge".

Ouch. Take that Basia.

Look what this old honey dripper wrote about me. What an admirable, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, brilliant, cool, dynamite, excellent, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, groovy, incredible, magnificent, marvelous, miraculous, outstanding, peachy, phenomenal, pleasant, remarkable, sensational, something else, staggering, startling, stupendous, super, superb, surprising, swell, terrific, too much, tremendous, unheard-of, wondrous, best ever, cat's pajamas, choice, commendable, copacetic, crackerjack, doozie, exquisite, gnarly, great, hunky dory, keen, smashing, solid, spiffy, super-duper, wonderful guy. Thanks Jacob Hoehne.


"Micah is a musical genius. He reworked an out-of-date and lame song and turned it into something really current and catchy. It was exactly what the video required. Micah has also composed several tracks from scratch for our film. He's great to work with and easy going. I highly recommend his work."


Service Category: Music composer
Year first hired: 2007 (hired more than once)


Top Qualities: Great Results, Personable, Creative



I'm blushing.

R.E.M.

Last night I dreamt that I hung out with R.E.M for about a week. Mike Mills didn't come around too often but Michel and Peter went with me wherever I would go. When I woke up this morning and saw their picture on the apple home page it felt weird that I didn't really know them. I felt so used to being around Michel's bald head, and Pete's moodiness. I wonder if they dreamt about me. They're really cool guys in dream life.