Depth Perception
Mateo Hightshoe
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Opening Meditation 3:240:00/3:24
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Beach Meditation 2:230:00/2:23
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A Walk In The Forest 2:100:00/2:10
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A Deja Vu Ending 0:260:00/0:26
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0:00/3:46
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Released Date: December 2024
Label: Disgruntled Media EP0005
Tracks: 5
Total Runtime: 13:00
MUSIC PRODUCTION CREDITS
Music Composed, Performed & Mixed by: Mateo Hightshoe
Artwork by: Mateo Hightshoe
All Intellectual Property, Copyrights and Licenses are owned by: Mateo Hightshoe
Digital Album Download FIle Type: MP3 320 Kbps CBR
Sample Type: 48000 Hz, Stereo, 24-bit
Note:
All projects prior to 2025 I went by Matthew C. Hightshoe.
All future works will be credited as Mateo Hightshoe.
All albums will be retroactively get credited as Mateo Hightshoe.
ABOUT THE ALBUM
This was my first solo composing gig outside of the composing work I do for composer Richard Band. I was approached by a young and beginning filmmaker (Isom Butler) who found me through Facebook and reached out to me. After some discussions about his film I took at look at it and immediately wanted to score it. The movie was a break from all of the Horror movies I had been working on up to that point. This film was a cerebral, intellectual type story that hopefully one day can get expanded into a longer story.
Without any reference tracks, my initial take was to structure the score was to have it start out somewhat urgent sounding and then start to transition into something more ambient and relaxing. While the director liked what I came up with, he wanted to keep the score mellow and ambient throughout. It could change from bright and happy to dark and mysterious when needed, but he wanted to avoid as much rhythm as possible. He was using a few hip-hop songs in the short as “source” music of sorts so the score really needed to contrast from the songs tonally and emotionally.
Isom provided me sample reference tracks exhibiting the kind of mediation music he was looking for me to get inspired by. With that, I came back with something that he really liked. I did not copy the music, but I did compose something similar in the same key registers as each reference track to help give that “familiar” sound and feel he liked in the reference tracks.
What you here on this EP are the original versions of each cue composed for the short film with the exception of the “Opening Mediation” Music in which BOTH versions are presented. The revised (alternate) version is what was used in the film and starts off the album. The original version bookends the album. The “Walk In The Forest” cue was revised significantly resulting in most of the “bright” piano and synth melody material being jettisoned in favor of leaving the underlying drones and simple 2-note piano line material. While the more lean version works in the film, I did not feel that revision was interesting enough to include on the album.
Other than that, it was a great experience, the director is a great collaborator and storyteller, and I look forward to working with him in the future.