Blog and News!
New Website for Production Music
I have begun composing and producing music for Film, TV, and Video. I.e. Any medium where music is synchronized to a visual image. Please visit my new website, www.chrishartzog.com, if you are interested in exploring my music for sync and would like to work with me.
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Mozart, Bologne and Beyond
Rough Golf
For the past number of months I have been learning the craft of producing music for TV, Film and Sync. There will be more news to come about that in the future. However, in the mean time I’d like to share with you some results. Here is a link to the playlist “Rough Golf” that I just created on Songtradr.com. Rough Golf was a kind of quirky project I started last year and finished up this spring and it was based around a theme of golfing, or more precisely my experiences going golfing, which aren’t the greatest!
Rough Golf Playlist
Golfer performs a golf shot from the fairway. Sunny summer day.
Morning Joy
Released to digital distribution on October 12th, Morning Joy, was my first venture into the EDM (i.e. Electronic Dance Music) genre. And if I do say so myself, I think it’s pretty cool. Take a listen and let me know what you think.
Into the Light
My orchestral emotional trailer track “Into the Light” was released on 1-July-2021 and was recorded with a 48kHz sample rate suitable for sync. After producing the music I decided to create this video to honor the incredible men of the United States Navy “Blue Angels”. As a Navy veteran I have always loved watching these fearless men fly these planes. The video is of course freely available here and on YouTube, but if you feel generous and want to support independent music, you can go to my Music Store and pay a small fee to buy the high resolution, 320kbps mp3 and/or the video! If you would like to license this track for sync, contact me using the form on the About page.
Thank you!
CJ
Courageous Blues
Courageous Blues, to honor everyone affected by COVID-19, my newest track, is released today.
What can I say about the past 12 months that hasn’t already been said or written about living through COVID-19 and all of the subsequent restrictions and challenges? I can definitely say things from my own personal experience. I can say I am more blessed than I deserve. While many people have lost their jobs, especially those in the restaurant industry, in travel and entertainment, I have been able to stay busy with work most of the year except with a few periods where work was scarce. But on the other hand, I have shared the hardship and loneliness of isolation and separation from family, friends and colleagues. My daughter, who has autism and developmental disabilities, lives in a long term care facility and due to the COVID restrictions she has been almost continuously quarantined in her facility, except for a few short times, since March 2020. I know there are countless families across the country in similar situations with loved ones more or less locked up in nursing homes and long term care facilities.
Many others have family or friends who have lost their lives to the virus and have even been denied the right to have a funeral or memorial to pay their last respects. And the deceased have had to die isolated and alone.
And into this challenge our doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers and first responders have had to rush in daily to care for the sick and dying.
It was looking back at all that we have been through as a nation that I composed this song, Courageous Blues. I chose to make it an instrumental because words are lacking. The melody and vibe reflect the striving, working, wondering, crying, hoping, persisting day in and day out for victory, for a better day. It is a blues, because many of us have been blue, but as is true with the blues, we know a better day is coming and we are facing our challenges with courage. Please download a high resolution version of Courageous Blues from my Music Store, or find it at your favorite digital distributor like Amazon, Apple Music, etc.
