charlie and ginger

original short film soundtrack

recording sessions with backstage orchestra began 29.4.2004 at slavomir glos home studio with strings quartet of k.kudjová, i.remenec, s.glos and m.pukl. 
next session included doublebass (p. mečiar) and trombone (dano drábik), together with original band tracks 'oh, darling (ride for charlie and ginger)' and 'another fine day' performed by OGO.
end title song ´with head in the clouds´ ispired by film is peter’s return in moods to fusion explosion tastes project.

score is oversea cooperation with adam wareham, australian director on his debut short film about ordinary school-day which turns to be quite less ordinary day, if not the last.

credits:

composition: peter pikna
violin: ivo remenec, slavomir glos
viola: marek pukl
violoncello: klaudia kudjová
bass: peter mečiar
percussions: martin smatana
trombone: dano drabik
engeneer: slavomir glos
recorded by: peter pikna/slavomir glos 

OGO (Orchestar Glupyh Ochotnike):
singer: juraj brodnan (not in adam's project)
electric guitar: andrej hinka
acoustic guitar/keyboard: robo kraus
bass guitar: lubo koptak
drums: martin smatana 

charlie and ginger download - 'charlie and ginger' collage'

charlie and ginger film page

animals (zvieratá)

original short film soundtrack

animals is no budget, epical, short amateur film, called by its authors ‘the shortest film myth'. live recording of its score was similiar challenge as for making the film itself.

peter pikna and backstage orchestra aimed to record 14’ score for ten instruments (2 violin, viola, violoncello, bass, trumpet, trombone, french horn, flute, clarinet), percussions and six pieces choir.

main theme consists of four motives. besides original motives peter pikna uses three-note straussian ‘humanic’ hail and another simple melody from folk tune medveďku daj labku (also singed by choir), because of their archetypical and ironic quality, taking challenge of composing variations.”

five tracks covers three ‘timelines’- prehistoric time is based mainly on rhytm and percussions. magic time suggest melodic polyphony of romantism, while the longest, the third part of postmodern time is focused on sound of more conterporary film music.

score preparation and sessions were conducted by slavomír gloss. 

credits:

violin: slavomír glos, ivo remenec
viola: marek pukl
violoncello: klaudia kudjová
clarinet: peter štrauch
flute: zuzana chochuľová
trumpet: lukáš bohúnek
french horn: tibor veselý
ethnic percussion and didgeridoo: saša zurovac
percussion: rasťo rubeš
choir: glossová, slavomír glos, peter pikna

animals download - full soundtrack, 'endtitles', 'about feature animals collage'

nothing bleeds forever (nič nekrváca večne)

additional music for original film soundtrack

new music to heighten dramatical content of mostly slapstick ska musicscape of 'metafora films' splatter-based "nosferatu" mute film.

with sampleworks for small orchestra with piano and six-piece choir peter developed three new motivs: the diggers, the treasure and theme for otto's diary, together meshed in final march of the vampires theme with derived phrases of film's original organ motiv  for nosferatu as for vampire reference.
special r'n'b track pounch! parodes rap style for street-castlefight scene.

vocals for choir and solo violin parts were performed by peter pikna and ivo remenec.


cues list:
1 the treasure hunters
2 will-o'-the-wisp
3 otto's diary
4 friend
5 remembering
6 meditation
7 earthshake
8 the treasure
9 pounch!
10 march of the vampires
11 march of the vampires (alternative)

nothing bleeds forever download - 'nothing bleeds forever' collage

credits:

composition&programming: peter pikna
violin: ivo remenec
vocals: peter pikna

inside him (v něm)

student's film 'inside him' stylistically illustrates inner dilemma of man finding balance in his life.

his home is his head- while in disorder state of loosing man's other life-profile, "body", peter uses synth and quartet strings with detuned notes of acoustic guitar and percussions ('between me and me' cue). jazz band with keyboards plays groove tune, while main character is in a "happy body" which finds a girlfriend for himself ('nice sunny day' cue). 

inside him hownload - 'nice sunny day', 'between me and me

side hi

ijhji

player can choose from the three sides of the conflict in europe, western asia& northern africa region; german, british and russian air force.

in music, these triple motives -three sides and three locations-  are meshed together with another three principles: toy-concept of game, seriousness of war subject and air battles as metaphor of making love (or war/game addiction? ;-).

three themes for each side of the conflict are in conjuction with 'kiss me in the sky' game theme, serving as main the title song (actually not singed). full nazi, raf and russian themes can be heard in patrol tracks, for each side their own. six battle tracks are randomly* played during missions and featuring melodic and rhytmical variations of the three themes plus 'kiss me in the sky' main theme.

backstage orchestra recorded selected string and trumpet parts. arrangement of the orchestra is 'classical', also in underscoring north-african battles, with using only small hand cymbal percussions as more 'exotic' instrument.
for 'kiss me in the sky' and especialiy its score table remix, there was used a "bigband" section with with the drums and saxophones.

*due of lack of the time in developing phase, random selection was reduced to simple random algorythm, instead of peter's designed random-ratio evolving system.

download 'kiss in the sky' song, recorded in october 2009 on original text, featuring zuzana burianova

kiss in the sky (music and text by peter pikna, performed by backstage orchestra and zuzana burianova 2006-2009)

download 'air conflicts' music montage

go to official 'air conflicts' pages

devil's book (dáblova kniha)

beside Devil's book musical adaptation, album contains also Uncle Estwan strings suite; original composition performed by Backstage Orchestra. more on that in Backstage Orchestra section.

full, cca 30' devil's book project was oficially released through deepgrave internet horror magazine hlboky hrob.

you can download devil's book here

uncle estwan strings suite (sláčiková suita strýka ištvána)

credits:

uncle estwan strings suite:
composition: peter pikna
violin: ivo remenec, slavomír glos
viola: marek pukl
violoncello: klaudia kudjová
contrabass: peter meciar
recorded, mixed & mastered by: peter pikna

thanks for help and support: ondrej priehoda, petra hladisová, veronika figurová

download uncle estwan strings suite (3.8mb)