Told you there’d be more updates soon!

Now that YouTube recently modified its policies to allow videos up to fifteen minutes in length as opposed to ten, I can finally put up what was easily one of my favourite little personal projects to work on this past year.

In 2009, I watched Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s magnificent documentary film, Home. I was moved by the strength of the narrative, by the staggeringly beautiful footage, and by the organic and appropriate musical score.

In 2010, as a composer seeking to respond to this creation, I decided to re-write the music as I might have done it. In the interest of brevity, I first re-edited the film into a briefer ten-minute version to keep it reasonably sized. Once that was done, I set out to write a new musical score for the cut — one that was wholly my own, yet influenced by Armand Amar’s original and by other stellar documentary composers like George Fenton.

I’ve left only the opening narration intact from the original to introduce the story — all other audio, including sound effects, is all produced by yours truly, and it is my pleasure to finally present you with the results!