Composition Music Services  composer - arranger - orchestrator - songwriter - copyist - digital audio producer

1418 Louis Alexis Trail  Gautier,  MS 39553 Tel 228-522-0028

			Click a section heading link below for more details. For info/estimates  on your proposed project, email me at ken@kendavies.net. Listen to mp3 work samples at Publications>Sheet Music, & Publications>Songs   Creative: Custom compositions  MIDI/Digital Audio creations Video underscore Songwriting and/or Jingles Arranging & Orchestration Supportive: Music Preparation (copying) Orchestral/choral score/parts Song Leadsheets  Record production  MIDI production and synth tracks/sound files Music formats for the web Musico-Legal Documents for attorneys Credentials: Music degrees, etc. Mac-based digital audio studio Mac G4 and Mac 8500/180 Written music Finale notation Digital Audio Digital Performer  MIDI/audio Pro-Tools compatible Kurzweil 2600 keyboard/module Additional Soundwares   We read music but we also have a great ear!

Creative Services: Ownership of rights, copyright licensing, and/or buyout pricing of work is dependent on the types of projects. Email me with specific details on your project. Estimates given. Music is written using the Macintosh Finale notation program. We can furnish written music only or we can provide pre-production tracks or audio sound files (Digital Performer files adaptable to Pro Tools and similar gear) up to a finished product (using outside pro recording studios where budgeted). Custom compositions for your instrument, ensemble, choir and budget. Arranging & Orchestration - all instruments, pop or classical styles from small group to orchestra and chorus. Final copies (score and parts) edited and computer generated with Finale. Hear some samples on the Publications>Songs page Original MIDI/digital audio creations - for your web, trade show, corporate video, art exibit... Songwriting - words and/or music or music to your words; advertising jingles; background tunes; custom songs for performers. Listen to some sample song clips on the Publications>Songs page | Top | Supportive Services: Rates given below. Our written music is done on computer in Finale and is suitable for copyright registration, presentation to professional performers or for music publication. Song Leadsheets consist of melody line, chord symbols and words (see sample) Variable rates reflect the length  and/or complexity of songs.  - from complete sketch (recopy & edit)................$45-$60  - from cassette or CD and lyric sheet...................$75-$100 Tips for songwriters: Use leadsheets for copyrighting your songs.  Publishers like leadsheets for sending to their publishing and recording affiliates, for their arrangers, and to give artists (along with demo tapes) to try out songs for possible recording. Make their work easier. Leadsheet Arrangements for club singers.......$75-$125 depending on length & complexity desired. Tips for club singers: If you work with a 2-4 piece rhythm section, many of your "arrangements" can be prepared as multi-photocopied "leadsheet arrangements" with intros, words, melodies, chord symbols, key changes, transitions, rhythm cues and fills. These can speed up your group's rehearsal time. A really experienced professional rhythm section could often sight-read your charts at on-the-spot performances.  Price range $45-125 depending on length and complexity desired - arrangement plus copy by estimate. Music Preparation (copying) & Engraving....by estimate Music Preparation refers to the copying and/or editing of music already written in some form -- traditionally paper. but may include computer readable forms that can be printed. Some music may still be written by hand in the case of specialized composition scores and parts (paper, "onion skin" or vellum), but most work, today, is computer-generated via one of the notation programs like Finale, SCORE or Sibelius. We're experienced at preparing all types of written music for the press or the web, from vocal piano scores to broadway shows and avant garde classical scores and parts. Basic Rate for project work  ........about $9-12 per page single stave Not edited or formatted for print publication  (i.e.  big band, studio sessions, shows). 8.5 by 11 printed page size - Usually 4 measures per line  (8-10 lines per page) Publication quality, Basic Rate....starting at  $17 per page  Formatted and edited for print publication  (spacing, page turns, etc.) May include proofing printouts See Samples: - single line instrument for method book publication - choral score for print publication

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Audio Examples of our work Some mp3 samples of  instrumental composing/arranging/MIDI orchestration in a variety of classical and pop styles. Please wait for downloads. Corporate Music (mp3, 60 sec) for a 60 second video montage of company products beginning with a 5 second sting as the company logo "flies" onto the screen. Film Music Montage (mp3, 3:27) some cues, scene beds, credit rolls run consecutively from a documentary about a tropical city. Orchestra & Instruments (mp3, 5:58) A sequence of excepts from works I composed featuring various orchestral and solo instruments, in addition to examples of my composing/arranging, these are also examples of my digital audio production work without the use of live musicians. orchestra - as might be used for the opening of a news broadcast (from News Opener) flute & electronics - modern concert/recital music using electronic sounds (from Soufriere) french horn - accompanied by electronic nu age type soundtrack (from Waterscape) solo piano - recital/concert music (from Sapphire Kaleidoscope 3rd mvt) english horn & electronics - modern concert/recital music using electronic sounds (from Dark River) trombone quartet - (from Quatandre) classical string quartet - 18th century style church organ - (from Wedding Processional) Piano Concerto with Orchestra (mp3, 2:15) Reorchestration and mdi generated recording of a work by another composer. Organ and Brass Quintet (mp3, 1:30) My composition in a neo-baroque style "performed in a cathedral." more examples coming

Record Production .............................................................................by estimate
- A producer works with recording studio engineers, singers, musicians, bands, arrangements, technology and your budget to guide the initial recording (tracking) and subsequent mixing (mix-down) to help your recording sound the best it can sound and be suitable for the purpose for which you intend. Such purposes may be song demonstration recordings to send to publishers, band CDs for sale or presentation to record companies, web presentations, advertising music for radio/TV or other purposes. Listen to a samples at our Publications>Songs page

MIDI/Digital Audio production ..........................................................by estimate
- Electronic digital audio production of arrangements for your record sessions or karoake-like live performances. We can also prepare quality digital audio tracks output as sound files you can take to any digital studio for further production.

Bio - Credentials

Ken has wide experience in the creation, preparation and recording of music, spanning both popular commercial and fine art classical. In addition to composing from "pop song to symphony," he has prepared song leadsheets for songwriters like the members of the rock group Molly Hatchet, written arrangements and songs for television (aired in major markets), and directed recording sessions that resulted in radio airplay.  His classical art music compositions have been performed across the U.S. and at prestigious festivals like Society of the Composers Conference, the Southeaster Composers League Conference and the International Trombone Festival. Once known for his fast and clean handcopy with pencil or pen, he has long since graduated to computer music (Macintosh Finale music notation application) and creates music with MIDI and digital audio as well as with live studio musicians. See Bio for more detail. Music Degrees B.Mus (Bachelor of Music) - University of Wisconsin at Madison M.A. (Master of Arts in music)- Middle Tennessee State University at Murfreesboro  - Graduate Teaching Assistant (Theory)  - While there, two of his compositions won in both the vocal and instrumental catagories of the MTSU 14th Annual Composition Competition, an unprecedented achievement. M.M. (Master of Music in Composition) - University of Colorado at Boulder  - Awarded the prestigious Cecil Effinger Composition Fellowship