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Douglas Edward (Modern Composers)
Film Composer and Song Writer
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The composer's film underscore credits include: A seedy and bitter electronic score for the scandalous drama,
"For You Are My Friend", by director Karre Huff. A quirky and comedic score of strings and piano for the highly imaginable, “Pest Control”, by animator Ezra Schwartz. An offbeat and humorous 'muzak' for the short comedy, “Misconception”, by director Greg Mansur.
A deliciously tangled labyrinth of orchestra and electronics for the amazing drama, "And All Other Things", by director Bruce Guido. A driving broken score of strings and piano for the solemn tragic drama, "Imperfection", by director Greg Mansur. A colorful charade of strings and guitars for the teenage drama, "Reilly", by director Greg Mansur. An italian taste of accordian, violin, guitar, piano, and strings for italian shot, "Voyage of Italy", by director Charles LaMendola.
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Composer Douglas Edward underscores films by utilizing real musicians on real instruments.
For smaller budgets, Douglas uses his personal library of sampled sounds, including full orchestral and quartet-style strings,
classical percussion with gongs and timpani, french horns, trumpets, and full female and male choir.
Douglas Edward is an experienced musician in all aspects of sound,
from behind mixing boards and recording in studios to rock band performances in front of thousands
and conducting large symphonic orchestras, he knows the importance of quality before
embarking on any potential musical endeavor.
At an early age, Douglas Edward started his musical life on classical piano and violin. Music
composition shortly followed, and he went on to eventually win several state ranked
composition competitions before graduating middle school. The composer than began learning
classical guitar and advanced piano/violin performance, finally ending his high school career as
an excelled nationally recognized pianist, a region orchestra member, concertmaster to a 100+
symphony, and composer for, amongst other pieces, several performed orchestral works.
Film composition began at the university where he wrote countless works for multiple types
of ensembles, performances, and media. Scoring for film and theater gave him some local
recognition, as well as performing in the Dallas/Fort Worth based art rock band, Alan. Douglas
Edward graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Music Composition,
a minor in Music Theory, concentration credits in piano performance, lab credits in choir performance,
and secondary credits in violin performance.
Before graduating from the school of music, Douglas Edward began performing and recording with
various music groups outside of the classical realm. In addition to the main art rock band that he
frequented the stage and studio with, he has also performed and/or recorded alongside with dallas
born alternative rockers Secret Silo, fort worth singer/songwriter Collin Herring, fort worth folk rockers
Brasco, denton jazz rockers Bosck, dallas dark alternative rockers Eden Automatic, fort worth
singer Tim Locke, dallas rock darlings Mosaic Minds, fort worth super star John Price, fort worth
art rocker Brandin Lea, and the metroplex rock prog and art bands HomBru and Flickerstick.
Douglas Edward then divides his remaining time between scoring music to film, instructing private
students on violin, piano, and composition, and performing/recording with other local music
ensembles and bands.
Douglas Edward is always interested in writing for new types of media or instrumentation and
working with new entertainment professionals. Douglas Edward is currently proficiency at piano performance,
acoustic and electric violin/viola performance, acoustic and electric guitar performance,
some electric bass performance, vocal performance, keyboard sequencing, digital audio sampling
and manipulation, electro-acoustic music, audio mixing and mastering, original score for any
instrumentation or group, and original song for any instrumentation or genre. |
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Douglas Edward Lists the following Influences
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POPULAR: bjork, portishead, stone temple pilots, arcade fire, goldfrappe, beck, jeff buckley, muse, at the drive in, radiohead, a perfect circle, pixies, and soundgarden to name a few. LOCAL: ALAN, Hombru, Eisley, Doosu, Goodwin, Flickerstick, Tim Locke, John Price, Collin Herring, Eden Automatic, Mosiac Minds, Chatterton, Scott Miles Band, and others. CLASSICAL: pyotr tchaikovsky, sergei rachmaninoff, ludwig van beethoven, FILM SCORE: john williams, danny elfman, thomas newman, john barry
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