Grégoire Pearce: Recent Episodes
Grégoire Pearce
Hey, me llamo Grégoire Pearce and I'm a composer and multidisciplinary guitarist from the Northeast of North America. I am available to work remotely or on-location for whichever projects present themselves.
I'm available for pre-production chats, spotting sessions, creating orchestral mockups with top shelf virtual and live instruments, arranging and orchestration, and composing for solo instruments and large ensembles alike in various styles. My throughput time from concept to stems is sometimes as short as eighteen hours.
My music is the sum of various classical composers, cinema, jazz, rhythm and blues, flamenco, 20th cent. Cuban & South American composers, and rock of various peculiarities.
Bye, for now!
30 second commercial, Firesite Films, Dave's Coffee
Video link | https://www.facebook.com/FIRESITEFILMS/videos/2130879223589661/UzpfSTE0MDcwMzQzOTI4NzkwMToxODg0ODIwMzY4MjA5NTI0/
I wrote this music for a stop motion piece by Kate Isobel Scott. Many thanks to Spitfire audio, Heavyocity, Sounddust, and Tom Anderson guitars for the fab instruments.
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Thanks and I sincerely hope that today is better than yesterday!
Grégoire
A quiet yet bouncing piano theme shares the stage with a string quintet, timpani and assorted orchestral percussion.
There's something familiar about the intro piano that eventually breaks free from its diatonic confines to adopt some parallel harmonies. Please enjoy the string section counter melody.. if you want to.
Distorted cello harmonics, subs, piano, and minimal yet galactic percussion drive us straight through the center of a bubble nebula.
Quadruple tracked guitars weave to and fro amidst a couple of pianos, basso continuo, trombones, and an oboe as the principle middle eastern inspired theme is thrown into a giant sling shot and aimed as western Europe... figuratively speaking.
A pad, some strings, a felt piano, some big yet distant drums, selfishly for my daily aching heart and those I love infinitely.
Solo piano with lots of great, big chords and arpeggios with some rhythm and then the scales!
Jainormous orchestral and frame drums meet risers & impacts, strings and horns for a cornucopia of espionage, intensity, and dramatic FUN!
Animation by Daniel Ruiz, original theme by Eskmo, additional composi-tion and arrangement by Yours Truly. Free virtual piano and string instruments (LABS) provided by Spitfire Audio.
Video at www.gspmusic.com/video
Following the fierce, determined ladybug on her journey to a new tomorrow.
https://www.facebook.com/gregoirepearce/videos/1980688355289391/
Wind in your hair, riding along at the edge of death, waves crashing below and the giant green ocean swelling beyond the beach. Welcome to our church.
Jonathan Thundermustard is a suspenseful, futuristic, ambient yet rhythmic piece for piano, strings, giant drums, and mellotron.
A night time driving scene. An emotionally frenetic grand prix to save that certain someone from a deranged sociopath. Processed guitar drones lead the charge flanked by percussion electroníque, string bass, french horn, and various pads. The 'crescendo al outro' leads you to a unquestionably surprising climax.
This piece was written as a rescore to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trailer and comes complete with creamy electric piano, cello, string bass, and 4 or so tons of percussion.
Video link | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr9_9s7Ixes&index=1&list=PLOMzutIFXnzrUQBg_kUECC3R0QxRCqbT3
Just after the onset of 2018, like January 1st or 2nd I mean, I learned of the Spitfire audio Albion One competition... the deadline? January 9th. I wrote this cue, simply but affectionately titled "George", which I scored to the video provided by Spitfire. It has become my homage, my tribute, to telemarketers who in their haste to sell me their wares manage to mispronounce Grégoire as George 80 - 90% of the time. Kind regards and a happy new year to all of you.
Video link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guHqcUW_uFQ&list=PLOMzutIFXnzrUQBg_kUECC3R0QxRCqbT3&index=2
I hope that when my life ceases as I currently know it, and if there is in fact some sort of journey or dimensional shift, that there will be a soundtrack while I'm in transit. I wrote this piece for a dear friend. I imagine she'd be listening to something like this piece while she's on her way.
We're a few drafts deep on this one having made adjustments to percussion performances, the synth player's haircut, and overall mix. Here is the ready for broadcast version of 'Departure'.
This piece is meant to tell the story of a person searching for a long known but lost truth that had been masked by a culture of lies and unclean and deceitful politics. So a subversive, dramatic, espionage piece, non? Ouí.
Long drawn strings, horns, and winds meet kinetic percussion & piano in this American inspired cue. At the theme's peak there is a Barber-esque climb in the strings as the final chord, in a twist, resolves in Iberian style.
The piano has the principle thematic responsibilities in this piece with loving support from some great string, woodwind, and brass players. Good work, everyone!
The intention of this piece is to paint an audio landscape of peacefulness and icy quietude.
The distorted, thematic electric piano of early Van Halen meets minimalist Mehldau, Tunisian tremolo surf guitar, bombastic kit, with a lyrical plot.
On a dark and treacherous night, whilst sitting in an alley waiting for danger to strike, the opening theme contained herein for guitar came to me. Then, well, I just wrote some more.
The hi-hat pedal is the back-bone of this piece. Every moment, until this piece ultimately dies, has at its core the pulse of the hi-hat. The changing themes are intended to encourage the listener/viewer to look at their experiences as they relate fundamentally to their core person, values, beliefs, however they care to regard their essence. This essence manifests in the piece through the steadfastness of the hi-hat as the flesh around it evolves.
"I'm Still Here" was an improvised recording whilst setting up microphones a few days . It's all one take with the exception of a second melody guitar which supports the final theme of the piece.
The emotional intention was to establish a bit of quiet strife and anguish which ultimately gives way to standing back up, rubbing some dirt in it, and making oneself whole again.
The guitar in the center channel has the primary theme which is supported by two melody guitars in the left and right channels.
Grégoire one morning... he picked up his telecaster, lifted a coffee to his exhausted face, pressed record, and improvised the theme that became this short piece.
A humorous, funky introduction is soon met with a minimal orchestral accompaniment to set a playful mode which gives way to the principle harmonic theme that the rest of the piece is built on. That progression is bowled over by a massive fanfare of blaring horns, overblown winds, big timpani, and a retro electronic drum kit.
This cue is a humorous, high energy, mildly suspenseful, tear-jerker for strings, tuned and untuned percussion, horns, and a section of flautists none of whom were on time for the session but they are loved anyway and will be called in the future.
An unlikely partnership of piano, tarnished cymbals, and string bass lay a rubato introduction at your feet before a paste of electronic and acoustic drums, horns, winds, and strings whip out their coloring books and show us what to do.
This track opens with soft, mysterious pads, glitchy guitar stabs, a trio of percussion loops, and irregularly tape delayed synth stabs. Colorful guitar and synth voices join hands with analogue and acoustic drum kits and cycles before yielding to a trippy, spacious conclusion.
While playing around on nylon string guitar, which didn't end up in the mix, the melody played here by French horns passed through my brain.
This short piece plays with minimalist inversions of chords in C, a droning yet spacious groove for tabla and bells, an untraditional electric guitar pad, string bass, and an octave arpeggiator for a little additional punch.
It's funny [peculiar, not humorous] how a sound can put your mind in a trebuchet and fire it off into the bushes in someone else's yard across the planet.
This scoring sample builds on the merging of a triplet themed mallet track with drums and bass arpeggiator performed in a duplet meter. The harmonic theme of I Imaj7 vi bVI using a mellotron choir evolves to include strings, brass and woodwind sections. Thank you for listening!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about myself and the record. First, I'm just under 2 meters and 93kg, all the compositions are my own, and, with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly), I sang and played all of the instruments. The orchestrations vary from solo flamenco guitar like in "June Fifth" to the tres dense "Pluviophile" or "The Love Boat".
The art work isn't finished yet, as you may have noticed, but worry not.. there's a fabulous designer putting the work of a fabulous artist all together for us.
Pluviophile represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
For best results, listen loud! Head between the speakers, earbuds are for chumps, throw on some monitoring cans, just hi-fi, dig?
Gregoíre
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!
Welcome to the pre-release of Pluviophile. I'm your host, Gregoíre Pearce, and I'd like to take a moment to tell you about the record. First, all the compositions are my own and with the exception of hammond organ (Tim Peck) and tenor saxophone (Derek Joly)I played all of the other instruments.
The album represents a few years of research, composition, arranging, practice, and a subconscious fusing of many of my influences into what I feel is an accurate representation of my current musical self.
I hope you enjoy it!