Orchestral, written for animation. Lost in your mind, a door to reality beckons.

Motion and joy - inside a snow globe

A capella, synths. End credits to Ebb & Flow (winner of the Visionary Award at Tribeca 2024)

Orchestral, investigative.

I also heard of the green valley (al wadi l’akhdar), which still exists, in the mountains on the road between Beirut and Damascus. A valley with a place to rest, reflect, have some food, and dance. I imagine a dream-like state of being, with Claire, her husband, and three kids, which included my mother (the fourth would come later.) This track has distant sounds, bells, all based on an extrapolation of the prelude to Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin. I use that triplet motif as an ostinato, and it guides us through the whole track.

1943 - My grandmother, running through the streets of Beirut after learning that Lebanon was declared an independent nation.

Orchestral force-of-will, our character's last push against obscurity.