Here’s a clip from Westworld that I composed music for a competition sponsored by Spitfire Audio.
Keywords to describe the music would be “avant-garde”, “twelve-tone”, ” Richard Wagner”, “American West”, “Tristan and Isolde”, “romance”, “love”, “Mission Impossible”. “action”, drama, tense, chase.
The music is basically in 3 sections. It begins with a Mission Impossible feel during a chase scene followed by a missile exploding a car of bad guys. Then there is a radical change from that to music typical of American Western film scores from the 1960s-70s. I know this is a bit crazy but I thought it would be reminiscent of the earlier seasons of Westworld and the American West theme park where the story begins. This music segues into a more intense dramatic score that reaches a climax incorporating a late-romantic orchestral sound reminiscent of a Wagnerian operatic style. The character “Caleb” has been drugged with “genre”. This causes him to experience various film genres. In the original WW episode (originally scored with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries) at the end of this scene, he experiences a romantic film genre. I tried to incorporate a style and tone that is similar to Wagner’s at the climax of my composition to depict the romantic film genre.