MUSIC COMPOSER FOR CONTENT CREATORS. Specializing in Horror, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, & Fantasy for Movies, Shows, Games, Trailers, Audio Books, Podcasts and more. Currently, I am an assistant composer for horror film composer Richard Band (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Puppet Master, Stargate: The Series and much, much more). I do not want to be pigeon-holed into any one set of projects. I am always willing to expand. When not on assignment with Richard Band, I am actively seeking assignments that I can tackle on my own. These can range in genre - drama, horror, sci-fi, action, kids. They can also range in type - movies, shows, web series, podcasts, audio books, & games. In addition to being a working professional, I simultaneously compose as an indie artist under the stage name "D4Disgruntled". under that name I create "concept soundtrack albums" in which I re-score my favorite horror and sci-fi films and release the music as a commercially available album for purchase. Stylistically, my music ranges from Traditional Orchestral mixed with elements of Synthwave, EDM, Sound Design, and Industrial. I compose, perform and mix all my music.

Matthew Hightshoe

MUSIC COMPOSER FOR CONTENT CREATORS. Specializing in Horror, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, & Fantasy for Movies, Shows, Games, Trailers, Audio Books, Podcasts and more. Currently, I am an assistant composer for horror film composer Richard Band (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Puppet Master, Stargate: The Series and much, much more). I do not want to be pigeon-holed into any one set of projects. I am always willing to expand. When not on assignment with Richard Band, I am actively seeking assignments that I can tackle on my own. These can range in genre - drama, horror, sci-fi, action, kids. They can also range in type - movies, shows, web series, podcasts, audio books, & games. In addition to being a working professional, I simultaneously compose as an indie artist under the stage name "D4Disgruntled". under that name I create "concept soundtrack albums" in which I re-score my favorite horror and sci-fi films and release the music as a commercially available album for purchase. Stylistically, my music ranges from Traditional Orchestral mixed with elements of Synthwave, EDM, Sound Design, and Industrial. I compose, perform and mix all my music.

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MUSIC COMPOSER FOR CONTENT CREATORS. Specializing in Horror, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, & Fantasy for Movies, Shows, Games, Trailers, Audio Books, Podcasts and more.

Currently, I am an assistant composer for horror film composer Richard Band (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Puppet Master, Stargate: The Series and much, much more). I do not want to be pigeon-holed into any one set of projects. I am always willing to expand.

When not on assignment with Richard Band, I am actively seeking assignments that I can tackle on my own. These can range in genre - drama, horror, sci-fi, action, kids. They can also range in type - movies, shows, web series, podcasts, audio books, & games.

In addition to being a working professional, I simultaneously compose as an indie artist under the stage name “D4Disgruntled”. under that name I create “concept soundtrack albums” in which I re-score my favorite horror and sci-fi films and release the music as a commercially available album for purchase.

Stylistically, my music ranges from Traditional Orchestral mixed with elements of Synthwave, EDM, Sound Design, and Industrial. I compose, perform and mix all my music.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts at Indiana University
September 1, 1994 - May 1, 1999

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    uniE608 "The Old Ones" - Getting Set Free
    As the Music Assistant & Assistant Composer to famed horror film composer Richard Band, I was assigned to compose additional cues on this horror movie for which he was the principle composer. The cue presents how treachery is dealt with among the bad guys. The force that possessed the innocent man is removed from the man and is dealt with harshly. The disciples of the possessing force are horrified and are given new tasks to follow by the higher power. The music returns to a similar "battle of wills" approach as heard in the cue where the innocent man gets possessed initially but this time its a battle between the higher powers and the dark force.
    uniE608 "The Old Ones" - Parking Lot Brawl
    As the Music Assistant & Assistant Composer to famed horror film composer Richard Band, I was assigned to compose additional cues on this horror movie for which he was the principle composer. The cue continues the fight from previous cue as it moves from inside to outside and eventually has the good guys escaping. The more traditional uses of the orchestra are prominent as the good guys are winning in the scene and the otherworldly material starts to retreat, much like the bad guys are forced to retreat.
    uniE608 "The Old Ones" - Attack In The Can
    As the Music Assistant & Assistant Composer to famed horror film composer Richard Band, I was assigned to compose additional cues on this horror movie for which he was the principle composer. The cue continues the darker material into something bigger, chaotic and more action packed as the good guys and the bad guys have their first real battle. This pulls out all the stops with instrumentation and scope of the sonic soundscape - transitioning back and forth from otherworldly material to traditional earthly uses of the orchestra. It is a true battle between good and evil.
    uniE608 "The Old Ones" - The Possession
    As the Music Assistant & Assistant Composer to famed horror film composer Richard Band, I was assigned to compose additional cues on this horror movie for which he was the principle composer. In this cue there is an innocent man who is captured and possessed. While he fights the others and tries to resist being possessed, ultimately, he loses. The music reflects this battle of wills through the layering and layering of stingers, hits, pounding percussion, string effects, and dissonance with a single brass line cutting through it all that represents the innocent man's struggle to not get possessed. It all comes to an end on the stereotypical and very overused "braum" sound.
    uniE608 "The Old Ones" - First Encounter
    As the Music Assistant & Assistant Composer to famed horror film composer Richard Band, I was assigned to compose additional cues on this horror movie for which he was the principle composer. The cue introduces the darker material that I came up with and will get developed in subsequent cues. It has a more traditional use of the orchestra with respect to the drones, dissonance, atonality, stinger effects and overall action stuff while also weaving in sound design elements and ethereal choral stuff.
    uniE608 "Horror Re-Scored 4" - Battling One's Own Demon (seg. 3 of 3)
    This track is from my album "Horror Re-Scored 4". It is part of my ongoing series of concept soundtrack albums (that I create under my indie artist name D4Disgruntled) in which I rescore an entire movie - specifically horror and sci-fi - as though I was the original composer hired. I do this to demonstrate my capabilities compose music for long-form content. The movie selected here is Pumpkinhead. This cue presents the climax to the film. These clips are segments from the entire sequence and longer cue but highlight the more important sections. Also, it represents the full culmination of the all the musical ideas and thematic material used throughout the score.
    uniE608 "Horror Re-Scored 4" - Battling One's Own Demon (seg. 2 of 3)
    This track is from my album "Horror Re-Scored 4". It is part of my ongoing series of concept soundtrack albums (that I create under my indie artist name D4Disgruntled) in which I rescore an entire movie - specifically horror and sci-fi - as though I was the original composer hired. I do this to demonstrate my capabilities compose music for long-form content. The movie selected here is Pumpkinhead. This cue presents the climax to the film. These clips are segments from the entire sequence and longer cue but highlight the more important sections. Also, it represents the full culmination of the all the musical ideas and thematic material used throughout the score.
    uniE608 "Horror Re-Scored 4" - Battling One's Own Demon (seg. 1 of 3)
    This track is from my album "Horror Re-Scored 4". It is part of my ongoing series of concept soundtrack albums (that I create under my indie artist name D4Disgruntled) in which I rescore an entire movie - specifically horror and sci-fi - as though I was the original composer hired. I do this to demonstrate my capabilities compose music for long-form content. The movie selected here is Pumpkinhead. This cue presents the climax to the film. These clips are segments from the entire sequence and longer cue but highlight the more important sections. Also, it represents the full culmination of the all the musical ideas and thematic material used throughout the score.
    uniE608 "Horror Re-Scored 4" - Marked For Death
    This track is from my album "Horror Re-Scored 4". It is part of my ongoing series of concept soundtrack albums (that I create under my indie artist name D4Disgruntled) in which I rescore an entire movie - specifically horror and sci-fi - as though I was the original composer hired. I do this to demonstrate my capabilities compose music for long-form content. The movie selected here is Pumpkinhead. This cue presents the last remaining survivors of the group accused of killing the father's son. However, by this point in the story, the father, after seeing the aftermath of those Pumpkinhead has killed, he has remorse and regret for what has has done. In this moment, he locates the survivors and tries to intervene. The music has elevated to full on primal energy with whaling brass, pounding drums and piano, swirling string figures and otherworldly sounds.
    uniE608 "Horror Re-Scored 4" - Birth Of The Beast
    This track is from my album "Horror Re-Scored 4". It is part of my ongoing series of concept soundtrack albums (that I create under my indie artist name D4Disgruntled) in which I rescore an entire movie - specifically horror and sci-fi - as though I was the original composer hired. I do this to demonstrate my capabilities compose music for long-form content. The movie selected here is Pumpkinhead. This cue presents the birth of Pumpkinhead, the creature that will enact the revenge on those who were involved with the death of his son. The "beast" motif is heard on whaling brass and will get used quite a bit to represent the primal nature of Pumpkinhead when it kills.
    uniE608 "Horror Re-Scored 4" - The Graveyard
    This track is from my album "Horror Re-Scored 4". It is part of my ongoing series of concept soundtrack albums (that I create under my indie artist name D4Disgruntled) in which I rescore an entire movie - specifically horror and sci-fi - as though I was the original composer hired. I do this to demonstrate my capabilities compose music for long-form content. The movie selected here is Pumpkinhead. This cue presents the father's journey to a nearby graveyard where he is to acquire an item he was instructed to get by the witch who sent him there. The music takes on a more atmospheric and atonal soundscape that evokes isolation, intrigue, hesitancy and shock by twisting up all the music material and instrumentation up to this point into something darker, creepy and hellish.
    uniE608 "Horror Re-Scored 4" - Letting Him Go
    This track is from my album "Horror Re-Scored 4". It is part of my ongoing series of concept soundtrack albums (that I create under my indie artist name D4Disgruntled) in which I rescore an entire movie - specifically horror and sci-fi - as though I was the original composer hired. I do this to demonstrate my capabilities compose music for long-form content. The movie selected here is Pumpkinhead. This cue presents the the father and son theme in its last and most bitter sweet mode before devolving completely into dark obsession and revenge mode.

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