Blue City, 1m6: “Hit and Run”

At last, here i am about 7 days later, and i’m happy to say that much has been accomplished. The music for my short film “Blue City” was written and recorded in about two days. My director didn’t think that I could pull it off, because we’re talking about a project that was supposed to take about a month to complete. But alas, I completed it. I was essentially writing the music up until (and during) my recording session which took place April 4, 2003; 4pm-9pm @ the berkee film scoring studio.

I am a little dissapointed in myself for having procrastinated so much on it, (especially given that this is the culmination of my film scoring studies @ berklee), but especially because I know that it could have been a lot better…if i had only alotted more time for it. Regardless, the music works and I feel that it is effective, so I suppose that is all a director could ask for. And now i know that I can pull off a short film in 2 days. ;-) Anyway, i thought i’d post one of the cues from my score, for those of you that are curious. So here is the 6th cue from “Blue City”, entitled “Hit and Run”, a short but rather haunting piano piece, which occurs before the climax of the film.


1m6 “Hit and Run” from Blue City-Music by Eric Espiritu (click)


In other news, my car finally sold on ebay! Indeed, the same car that was considered “totalled” by local garages which offered no more than $50 to take it off my hands, was sold on ebay for $710. There were actually some rather enthusiastic bidders from all over the country that found the car as a great “project” for them. The winner is from Alabama, and he’s planning a trip up to boston just to come and get it. There was another bidder from Florida who really wanted it that was going to pay an additional $700+ just to have it shipped down to him. Amazing.

So my weekend was pretty cool. Very laid back, tried to catch up on some rest. Didn’t have to work, thankfully. The dreary weather has forced Gap to cut down on some hours, so I can’t complain. The wizards are still in the playoff hunt after a dramatic overtime victory here in Boston yesterday. 

Went to see FRU @ an m.i.t auditorium last night. “Relive the Memory” was intense. Not to mention one of the most memorable climaxes and endings to their set. Allen’s going nuts on stage, running around, hitting the ground, playing the guitar with his teeth, and then…after the final chord is struck, when the band has exerted all its energy into building such a tremendous climax and ending on such a big chord, one would think that the band would let the chords and cymbals ring out into the air, as the crowd watches in awe at the mystique that “for reasons unseen” had spent the whole night building, rock song after rock song….BUT, out of nowhere, allen chooses to run center stage to the synth where he starts playing some random song. He says “wait, wait..” “this kinda sounds like that one song..” HAHA..we were dying of laughter…it was hilarious. Oh you had to be there. 

“For Reasons Unseen” is slated to play this Friday at an M.I.T. frat house, with “The Broken Word” as opening act. Rumour has it that Preppy might be playing its first show at this particular venue, sandwiched between these two bands. Stay tuned. More info as the days progress…
But for now, back to work..





:: Eric 12:05 PM [+] ::