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comedy music, short film

“Pine” – the stalker scene

15/02/2013 Nic Paton 1 min read

A case of species confusion by an invading alien witnessed by a botanically-correct stalker –  a scene from Stephen Schmidt’s nutty Caper “Pine” with my […]

Ableton, music technology

Ableton Live 9 / Push

06/11/2012 Nic Paton 1 min read

Dear  Santa This is the state of the art of music making. Ableton’s Gerhard Behles and some incredibly talented music makers present the advent of […]

african music, childrens music, commercials, corporate film, trailer

KFC Journey of Hope

05/10/2012 Nic Paton 1 min read

Using the track “Wonder” from “Twana Toons”

Uncategorized

Rubner TV Impressions using “Equipoise”

01/08/2012 Nic Paton 1 min read

Equipoise plays from 4:02

animation, feature film

Bradley Stilwell 2012 showreel

13/06/2012 Nic Paton 1 min read

Animation and compositing/lighting genius Bradley Stilwell recently returned to South Africa from Aardman Animations in the UK. I scored his showreel, which includes “The Pirates! […]

piano, short film, video

A Tone Poem : The Arc of Home

07/06/201215/08/2016 Nic Paton 1 min read

This spacious pianistic piece, “The Arc of Home”, is a tone poem set to a simple, short and yet deeply profound visual narrative by director […]

african music, sports music, vuvzela

Sports Power – Africa Scores

25/01/2012 Nic Paton 1 min read

My latest production-ready themes form part of a new compilation on Mama Dance (MDML045), called “Sports Power – Africa Scores”. This is a high energy […]

african music, remixing

Symphony of Science : Children of Africa “Singabantwana beAfrika” Remix

29/12/2011 Nic Paton 1 min read

These beings with soaring imagination Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space [Carolyn Porco] John Boswell’s  amazing anthropological melodisation mashup project “Symphony of […]

african music, childrens music

“Twana Toons” : African kids moods and themes

16/11/2011 Nic Paton 1 min read

The fruit of the last few months is a new album of production music on Mama Dance entitled “Twana Toons”. From the coy to the […]

feature film, trailer, video

Otelo Burning official trailer.

19/07/201127/02/2022 Nic Paton 1 min read

“Otelo Burning” (trailer score by Nic Paton) is the opening film at this months Durban International Film Festival.

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