Dream Hat Background Music

I was so excited when Apple came out with GarageBand. I could finally hear the songs I had written since high school externally, the way I had heard them internally for years. Then right in the middle of The Dream Hat, MacWorld introduced the Symphonic Jam Pack for GarageBand. It included just about an instrument you could want in a symphonic orchestra.

I intended to finish animating The Dream Hat and then compose background music for it, but as I would finish each scene and played it back, I could hear the music in my head, so I composed it as I went. I would lay down a track, hear a counter melody in my head and lay down that track. Usually in about a half hour I would have the background music composed and recorded for a scene.

I used some music symbolically:

For the Purple Man who held his breath for hundreds of years, I only used woodwinds (breath instruments). The percussion was wood blocks to sound like the ticking of a clock..

For Ralph and Louie, when they would speak in unison, I used a church choir. When they would fight, I would use a bell that symbolized both a church bell and a bell announcing the rounds in a boxing ring.