December 23, 2015 - When I sat down with C.H. Greenblatt to spot the episode “Yampions,” I was initially excited by the idea of writing some Renaissance/Baroque style music with electronic instruments; channeling my inner J.S. Bach by way of…
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The Harvey Beaks Orchestra, 2015
November 13, 2015 - This last week, Team Harvey Beaks flew to Seattle, WA to record music for the current and upcoming season of our show. We recorded with 60 MUSICIANS! A full symphonic orchestra worth of world-class talent from…
Read more“Love Me To Me” An Anime Love Song | The Music of Harvey Beaks
November 2, 2015 - I love absurdity. I love to #commit to absurd ideas and see them through to the very end. I love that Nickelodeon allows me to do such things. This little ballad for Foo & Claire from…
Read moreHalloween Harvey Beaks Theme | The Music of Harvey Beaks
October 23, 2015 - Here’s a reworking of our theme song I made a bit creepier with the help of a harpsichord, a contrabassoon, a theremin, a minor key, and some unexpected chord changes. Its always exciting for me take…
Read more“The Birth of Harvey” | The Music of Harvey Beaks
October 10, 2015 - This weeks’ episode of Harvey Beaks (Icky Chicky) featured a heartwarming flashback of Harvey hatching from his egg. I got to write this little lullaby and title card sequence with music boxes, xylophones, glockenspiels, assorted electronics…
Read moreMagic Children Doing Things | Main Title Theme
October 4, 2015 - I had the pleasure of working with Harvey Beaks story-boarder and web comic artist Monica Ray last year on her peculiar short, Magic Children Doing Things. @montiray is an exceptionally talented artist with a cheerfully irreverent…
Read more“King of Pranks” Music Suite | The Music of Harvey Beaks
Sept. 18, 2015 - Here’s a fun & simple suite of some of the musical score that punctuates Harvey’s antics in the “King of Pranks” episode. I am truly most at home in this odd/playful/silly/absurd style of writing and I…
Read more“Pee-Choo” Variations | The Music of Harvey Beaks
One musical theme that has been featured again and again on Harvey Beaks is something we call the “Pee-Choo theme,” which was introduced in the very first episode of the season. It’s always fun to reinterpret this theme and I’ve…
Read moreThe Chance Parade | The Music of Harvey Beaks
There’s a cavalcade of dreamers,
confetti and streamers
Where floats are filled with broken rules
and the hopes and whispers of fools
The spectacle is there to see
to those lost in pleasant reverie
But perhaps you haven’t got the…
DAD BAND Montage | The Music of Harvey Beaks
July 25, 2015 - One of my favorite subversive things to do as a composer on a television show that reaches millions of children all around the world is to include stylistic musical homages to my favorite artists. I consider…
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