The Wrongware Factory - Short Movie main theme. Now on Fetchflix

The Wrongware Factory - Short Movie main theme. Now on Fetchflix

In order to make new friends, the new president of a small and idiocratic country decided to create a new agency called the Government Office of Optimized Failure, the GOOF, which is staffed by a bunch of 12 years old kids having the title of Government Office Overpaid Fools, the GOOFys and headed by an asparagus grower, who thinks he’s a genius. The GOOF is some kind of factory helping the government to creates chaos and uncertainties within the government until it implodes for the benefits of the plutocrats. Guess who will survive?

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Music: Syrel
Photography: Meta AI

Musical notes: The wonderful main theme composed by Theodore Shapiro for Severence was somewhat my source of inspiration. I wanted my theme dystopic, simple and complex at the same time.

I listened through laptop speakers, so this might have influenced my experience considerably. The use of percussion here is very immersive, but I think whatever instrument you doubled on the piano at around 0:29 kind of broke the immersion a bit as it sounded very midi-like. Perhaps increasing the attack time or the sustain level of the instrument would help?

Thank you Mossy for the illuminating and constructive comment. However, Sennheiser HD 650 headphone may be a better choice than your laptop tiny speakers to judge a mix and the sounding of a recording. Indeed, at 29 seconds the english horn, clarinet and trumpet, which are real musicians playing real instruments in Studio One AIR Studios, are doubling the piano for few bars before being replaced by an Armenian Duduk and a reed ensemble, again real musicians playing real instruments but recorded separately in a recording booth. The choice is mine and a agree with myself but there are indeed no obligation for you to like it from laptop speakers that are far from being HIFI. However, the lesson learned here is that I should never record at noon in order to ensure it doesn’t « sound midi-like ». Also, I will ensure during the next recording that musicians uses instruments equiped with an ADSR such that they can adjust the attack time correctly and mostly never record at noon or even midnight. I guess recording at 9 in the morning would sound better. Also, I should stop writing my scores in C-Flat Minor as it cost me a fortune in rehearsal and the musicians are always swearing while reading my music. Try yourself writing in C-Flat Minor and I am sure you will start swearing in 13 languages ;o)

Cheers,

P.S. midi is noon in French while MIDI is Musical Instrument Digital Interface which obviously you are also using with Jotter..

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Edited August 1, 2025Aug 1 by Syrel