HITRECORD is the collaborative creation platform founded by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I was privileged to be HITRECORD's Music Director since its inception. I also served as Executive Music Producer for the 2 seasons of our half-hour variety TV show.
Its a worldwide community of collaborators of all experience levels who collaborate to turn others’ ideas into finished works; In some cases, grand ones worthy of a worldwide audience.
Here are some pieces whose music I composed or produced for hitRECord over the years.
A Forest Haunt: SCORE, SOUND DESIGN, MIX: Here’s a sweet and spooky short I scored for Canon in collaboration with HITRECORD.
Watchdogs: Legion Trailer SCORE, SOUND DESIGN, MIX: Trailer for our partnership with Ubisoft’s ‘Watchdogs: Legion’ game. Our community was tapped to write ten anti-establishment, resistance-fueled songs for the game (songs are here)
Band Together With Logic PRODUCING: The worldwide hitRECord community writes and records a song collaboratively with Logic. I oversaw the music production on the hitRECord side. And in post production, I created the music edit you hear (and see) at 16:34, as Logic surveys all the contributions, slowly building up his track.
Samsung ‘In A City’ PRODUCING, MIX: Here’s a short film we did in partnership with Samsung. It’s theme is cities and our relationships with them; The people and the environments. I led the production, played some parts, and assembled and mixed all the individual pieces together into the form you hear here.
Still Here SCORE: A melancholy rumination on abandonment and loss, and the quiet confidence one sometimes discovers despite it. I wrote the music, the hitRECord community of musicians executed it, interpreting it further themselves along the way. From hitRECord On TV season 1.
You’re Not The Only One PRODUCING: I led the production of this record; A piece of sweet, pure pop, written by a few different people on a few different corners of the Earth, coming together with hundreds more who layered parts on top of the basic band tracks from the shoot. Song begins at 17:15 into the episode.
LG Mobile - The In Between Moments SCORE, PRODUCING: I co-wrote this piece with Joe. But really, by the time the hitRECord community was finished with it, my contribution served only as the skeleton; The essence comes from the colors we all hung on it together. This ad aired internationally during the fall of 2015.
LG Mobile - Everyday, Spectacular :30 SCORE, PRODUCING hitRECord’s second outing with LG Mobile. In our prior spot with them, we explored the meaning and potential in the spaces we consider as ‘wasted time’. This time around, we took a different approach, checking out what happens when we do just the opposite and purposefully make something huge out of a humble spark. One of the ‘sparks’ in this case is the melody I wrote, which kicks things off…
LG Mobile - Find Your Frame :30 SCORE, PRODUCING As the third of the trio of spots hitRECord produced for LG Mobile, the lens turns to…well…lenses. With an emphasis on the image-gathering characteristics of their phones, music takes a more laid-back stance here, even if it’s very-much the center of attention pictorially.
Nebulullaby - PRODUCING: Produced over the course of a handful of days in 2010 high in the mountains of Utah at the Sundance film festival…And in California…And New York…And France…And elsewhere; The song was written by Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl, and brought to life by the online community.