Oliver Norred's sound portfolio: past composition and production work
Podcast score for The Choir of Heirs
2024
I composed and produced full pieces and short musical cues under the direction of podcast creator Grayson Teals (my cousin!) He gave a list of necessary pieces, their expected durations, and emotional descriptors for each piece.
For the work with the Regular Movements Quartet, I wrote sheet music, mostly lead sheets, so that we could record with little rehearsal.
Three Songs Done Right: original music
2024
Four compositions written for guitar and voice, performed and recorded outdoors in a few hours.
Video footage of the recording session published to YouTube.
All of Our Cornbread: original music
2023
With a seven-piece band, I wrote, recorded, and produced seven songs this year for an album, We Like It When We Play Our Tunes.
"We Like It When We Play Our Tunes," the title track from our album
Tracklist
Helping, a pop-funk song about stress eating
Markgrafenstrasse, an instrumental interlude
Too Much Time, recorded with the whole band together in my basement
Our album's title track, a tribute to the music of Sun Ra
You may enjoy this YouTube playlist of "Ableton Session Tours," in which I discuss my production and composition choices for All of Our Cornbread songs.
We also play live sometimes! We post show dates on Instagram (@allofourcornbread) and on our mailing list
Thumbtack Ceiling: ambient music
2022
I worked with my friend Cole Krueger to record seven pieces of instrumental ambient music in one evening. Includes piano, synthesizer, guitar, and found sounds.