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My new tech-tinted pocket album approaches! Built with love from the spare parts of our recent Amazon Fire project, "syDthetic" is a cheerful medley of unabashedly synthesized musical shorts. Keep your oculars in focus!

Meet Finley, my new roommate! I named him after a special dog Puyallup...

Hello there! You’ve discovered the new home of Syd Scotch Music. Things are coming along quite nicely here as we iron out various site kinks. We're working on a proper site design and song player before we begin uploading our library, but soon our repertoire will be ready for perusal. This is all pretty exciting, so be sure to check back! In the meantime, behold Remy's terrifying Dark World form:

That neat 3D phone all over the news lately? Brother Eric Munch did the demo video music for it:

What a marvelous day! Details ASAP. ;-)

I've been having fun with the visuals as we work on website internal organs. SydScotch.com looks a little raw as I type this, but here are some layout ideas we hope to implement pretty soon:

I’m Syd Scotch, a composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in creative orchestration for film, video, TV, games, and other production media. I've devised soundtracks for Windows' international educational software vignettes, collaborated with Amazon on their Fire smartphone demos, and worked with Seattle's RUN Studios to create distinctive music for Microsoft's Surface tablet promos and Internet of Things exposés, including scores for the London Underground railway, ThyssenKrupp Elevator's skyscraper lifts, and New Orleans' high-tech 911 dispatch system. I’d love to hammer out an unforgettable soundtrack for your project, too. I work hard to create custom scores that complement and adapt to your source material and vision whilst retaining a signature sound. I have nearly twenty years’ experience as a song-writer and orchestrator of creative symphonic music (my work has been performed live by symphony musicians here at Benaroya's Recital Hall). Nonetheless, I regard genres more as extensions of voice than limitations on sound; you can hear many examples of this in my repertoire, which so far has encompassed flavors of avant-garde, rock, funk, jazz, electronic, and much more. Whatever the directive, I’m driven to create dynamic, inviting music with a fluid human energy. I deliver polished tracks on tight timetables and I edit my compositions directly to footage for fine-tuning sound to action. I also produce full sheet music sets complete with conductor’s score should you ever need your soundtrack to be performed live. If your project is craving an inventive score with an authentic "live" sound but you can’t afford the Seattle Symphony, do get in touch! I offer flexible rates and a lifetime of experience. I truly look forward to working with you to make your soundtrack a special one. Cheers, Syd ~ SydScotch.com

Poor Finley has finally met his end! Months of ailments & a nasty fall forced major disassembly...

Disregarding explicit rules, Syd plays the house piano at Teatro La Fenice.

I just "fixed" the sustain pedal on my grand piano using a pair of chopsticks and a Two-Buck Chuck wine cork! I'm chalking this up as perhaps the greatest DIY job of all time. :-) Thanks, Trader Joe's!

I got a chance to see one of the great Kings at Seattle's Moore Theater! At 88, B.B.'s definitely showing his age, but the man brought a hell of a band who put on a hell of a blues show. I even managed to capture a clip of a crazy-funky bass solo. Behold!

Check out some upbeat music Eric & I did for RUN Studios in this new Surface ad:

I even have some brass music to (kinda) go along with it!