Honor of Kings Lan CG - Music by Seth Tsui - Budapest Scoring Orchestra and Choir Seth Tsui 2020-12-08 | If you haven't already, please watch the final film:youtu.be/rE0UYXsypvwHonor of Kings《王者荣耀》by TimiLan (澜) CG, directed by Jiaozi (饺子), animation by Kekedou (可可豆)Music composed by Seth Tsui (徐赛斯)Music performed by the Budapest Scoring OrchestraSound design and mix by Skywalker SoundBTS Video edited by Seth Tsuihttp://www.sethtsui.com
病MISSING Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, by Seth Tsui Seth Tsui 2018-02-13 | Over the course of the last two weeks, I had the pleasure of scoring a very touching short film here in Beijing about loss and the fragility of life. Most of my scores up until now have been for very "big" stories using epic characters from Chinese mythology, and it was a challenge to tell a story that was "small" and focussed on mostly monologues and introspection.For inspiration, I listened heavily to the music of Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything, Siccario) whose style has always spoken to me about the human experience. Like him, I chose to make this music with all real players - a live string quartet and a couple outstanding vocalists - accompanied by all real analog synths to give a warm, expressive human feel to these long, minimal soundscapes.Jóhann Jóhannsson died the day we mixed this. The title of the film then took on on a new meaning for me, since the film music world will always be missing a unique, irreplaceable voice without him.Credits:Film Studio - I.R. FilmsFilm Director - Yan KunyeComposer/Conductor/Mixer - Seth TsuiScore Recording Engineer - Jiachang LiuViolin I - Yinghao ZhangViolin II - Juan SuViola - Jie HaoCello - Nicole Jahng"Lullaby" Vocalist - Birdie Zong"Through the Night of Despair" Vocalist - Melissa R KaplanThe picture for this video was taken at the scoring session where the string quartet was recorded.
Seth Tsui - Inspiring China Seth Tsui 2018-01-16 | Seth Tsui composes music and conducts a film scoring session for Monkey King, The Journey Begins by Red Dragon Entertainment Ltd.
Seth Tsui, Inspired Seth Tsui 2016-10-16 | Short video demonstrating the writing and recording process of Seth Tsui, composer of music for film and games.Gabriel Bienczycki - Camera and EditSeth Tsui - MusicJean-Paul Barjon - CelloYuting Liu - FluteNate Laguzza - DrumsMichael Seifert - Sound Mix
War of the Worlds, Game Sound Demo by Six Axis Audio Seth Tsui 2016-03-16 | http://www.sixaxisaudio.comCreated as a 3D positional sound demo for the Gear VR.If you have a Samsung Note 5 and Gear VR headset, you can download the app for free at:www.sixaxisaudio.comGame Design and Coding: Seth TsuiOriginal Sound and Music: Seth TsuiVoiceover Artist: Ross TurnerBased on "War of the Worlds" by H.G. WellsPopularized by the 1938 radio broadcast "War of the Worlds" by Orson Welles.
DePauw Orchestra Performs Seth Tsuis Virtus Vitae Film Score Seth Tsui 2013-12-07 | DePauw University Orchestra, conducted by Orcenith Smith, performing DePauw Alumnus Seth Tsui's CINE Inaugural Film Scoring Competition winning piece.You can view the original piece here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfsAeL5LjgVirtus Vitae is a CINE Golden Eagle winning short animated film by Laszlo L. Ujvari, which was the focus of the CINE 2013 Film Scoring Competition - All entrants re-scored this film, and Seth Tsui and Ken Pierson became the winners of the competition.Laszlo is a 3D VFX artist, and his website is here: http://www.laszlofx.comAfter the competition, DePauw University commissioned Seth Tsui to notate his winning film score for live orchestra, and return to DePauw on November 3rd, 2013 to attend the premier.Big thanks to all the DePauw University Orchestra members for their masterful playing, soloists Emily Barnash (voice) and Lizzy Wen (piano), Laszlo J Ujvari for his incredible film, Dr. Eric Edberg for the wonderful interview, and Dr. Orcenith Smith for his impeccable conducting and making the whole thing happen.Video Editing and Sound Mixing by Seth TsuiCinematography by Dave McDermandBackground Music by Seth TsuiSeth's Website is here: http://www.sethtsui.com
Virtus Vitae by Laszlo L. Ujvari, Original Score by Seth Tsui Seth Tsui 2013-12-07 | Posted with permission from the creator, Laszlo L. UjvariYou can find more of Laszlo's work here: laszlofx.comFirst place winner of CINE's inaugural film scoring competition!Seth Tsui re-scored this excellent short animated film in early 2013 for a scoring competition; all the music is original and created from beginning to end in Pro-Tools.Nichole Dechaine was the soprano voice soloist (and she did a beautiful job).Here are the Italian lyrics, with English translation, that Seth wrote for the aria in the film:Se il pianoforte viveMi sveglierò dal mio sonnoe canteremo insiemetra rovine di questo luogoIf the piano livesI will wake from my sleepand we will sing together in the ruins of this placeThe rest of the score came together in the following ways:All the brass are real, played by Seth (tenor, alto and bass trombone played and manipulated in creative ways for a full brass section sound)Most of the violins are real, played by Seth (layered 11 to 33 times for a full section sound)The rest of the instruments were created with EastWest Complete Composer's Collection (the piano is sampled from an exceptional Bösendorfer concert grand)Synths and additional Foley created in Reason, Absynth, and Xpand.For the score, I wanted to create a piece of music that really defines the building in the film as an opera house, and brings to life the implied character of the woman seen in the painting at 0:33 and 3:03. I figured the best way to do this was to have her voice coming out of the phonograph that the robot starts at 1:30 (made it sound "vintage" by recording her voice with a Placid Audio Copperphone) and gradually blending that with audio from the clean-sounding vocal mic to convey what her voice was like coming out of the character's memory.
Using WiiMotes as MIDI Controllers Seth Tsui 2010-07-10 | For Aaron, because he requested it! This is day 2 of testing WiiMotes to work with various software synths. Right now I'm using them to control the Mastrom synth and ReDrum drum machine in Reason. Please note, I put this together for sake of demonstration, not as a piece meant to have musical integrity. Everything is controlled live, via the Wiimotes. The only thing pre-programmed is the drum beat pattern, but even that is triggered on/off via the B button on the white Wiimote, The patches are very simple - The motion controls on the black Wiimote control a notch EQ to sweep up and down and process the output of the Malstrom synth (for those of you who use Reason, you'll probably instantly recognize the stock Amp Sweep patch on the Malstrom synth). The motion controls on the white Wiimote do the same thing except for the output of the drum machine. All the notes are keyed via the wiimote buttons, and I'm still working out the most ergonomic way to cram a workable keyboard onto the 11 buttons of the wiimote. It's all done using a very user friendly piece of software I got for $19 called OSCulator (yay, I don't have to program my own MAX/MSP patch this time!)
Seth Tsui Trombone Foo Fighters Audition Seth Tsui 2008-01-19 | This is my submission for the Foo Fighters' "My Grammy Moment" competition. I'm doing this because it seems like a great opportunity to further my goal of closing the gap between classical and rock music. Listen to more of my work at www.myspace.com/sethtsui EDIT I never thought this video would be so popular! If you want to play the solo for yourself, I uploaded the (hand-written) music for it here: http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh193/sethtsui/?action=view¤t=STPretenderSolo.jpg Note: I don't have the copyright to the 8 bar tune that I play at the beginning, so I can't upload that (but you can find it on the leadsheet they had for download while the contest was running, or just figure it out. It's not that hard.) If you are a potential employer looking for a trombonist, I am available for hire in the Cincinnati area during summer and the Indianapolis area during the rest of the year. You can contact me through email - sethtsui@yahoo.com
