Music for film
End Credits, from the film “Living to be 100,” directed by Jack Glisson. Music written and performed by T.J. Troy.
Jack Glisson’s gritty and dark "Living to be 100" called for an airy and distant score. I chose to score this film entirely with percussion: I used vibraphone, crotales, marimba, and textural percussion to paint pastoral images of the Arizona desert landscapes, using revolving, cyclic melodies. This piece is the end credit music for the film.

Mourning a fallen father, from the film, “Seven Swans,” directed by Den Serras. Music written and performed by T.J. Troy and Leon Rothenberg, with guests Miamon Miller and Eoin Russel.
The film “Seven Swans” was the first film ever to be mixed in 10.2 Surround Sound technology, developed by Tomlinson Holman (creator of Lucasfilm’s THX sound technology). Additionally, the entire film was shot before a greenscreen backdrop, and all background images were then digitally rendered on a Macintosh G4 computer by filmmakers Den and Nikka Serras. A revolutionary approach to student filmmaking, “Seven Swans” was widely acclaimed, and the musical score was awarded the Gaia Award from the Moondance International Film Festival in 2005.

Memory I can’t escape, from the film, “Seven Swans.”