Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I had a hobby of doing some music composing. Was a nice little diversion from doing artwork, and was something I enjoyed. Haven’t had a chance to do much of it nowadays, but I did take all the music I could and put it into a 2 CD set... these are some highlights of the tracks on them. (click on the track titles to download MP3s) ©2006 Daren Dochterman.
I was co-host of a nationally heard show on the Cable Radio Network called “Talk Trek” which focused on the many facets of the Star Trek world... we needed a theme song for the show... and I made this.
A week after the Los Angeles Riots my friend Ed Marsh called me up and said “I have this idea for a song... let’s record it”... two days later he and I and my friends Chuck Michael and Van Ling were recording it after I came up with the Karaoke instrumental. It was played on the local Dr. Demento Show and was number one on the “Funny 25”
Just a funny idea to orchestrate “Happy Birthday” in the style of John Williams.
When I heard that James Horner was going to score the “Rocketeer” I did this in anticipation...cause I thought it would sound something like this. I was totally wrong, but I still like this piece.
This was just some noodling... and I thought it sounded a bit spanish... so sue me.
Me trying to do a John Williams-y tune... but with too many notes.
This was done in 1991 when I was working on the movie “Honey I Blew Up the Kid” (which was then called “baby”)... thought it might be fun to have the movie end real vegas style, with rick moranis doing a musical number in one of the casinos... Alas, as with all great ideas, it was not to be.
This is me getting all “new age”y...
A standard Action Cue... full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Back in college roommate days, my roommate Chuck Michael and I did a couple tunes with his awesome synthesizer and drum machine setup. This was supposed to go along with a bunch of sound bites from the Star Wars movies... that version is somewhere... but not here. This is the instrumental
Ok, here is the version with the sound bites. So there. See which one you like the best.
When my friend Jon Bell called me and said that his wife was putting together a “book on tape” of stories and encouragement to “Do something with your life”, I was asked by the author, Joan Frank, to “score” the tape... and I did... with about 12 minutes of music... This was the theme.