Chris Kennedy

This is WILD. I wrote this almost 20 years ago and it's gone quasi-viral in the last couple of years. The YouTube video has half a million views!

If you're in Baltimore tomorrow (10th) at Enoch Pratt Library on Cathedral@6:30 pm, my students are performing a live score that they composed for an amazing silent, black-and-white, 1928 French expressionist adaptation of E.A.Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'--and it's FREE!

@NotPerfectJustB @blkwomenread Hope y'all don't mind me popping in here... Just wanted to throw myself out there as someone else who has developed stress-related chronic hives!

@blkwomenread Yup. This happened while I was in the last year of rotations. Chronic Hives that's stress related. It gets worse during my menstrual cycle

@SamHulick @SrZero For what it's worth, I've seen Giacchino do this as well! music.youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@SrZero Bear is the first high-profile composer I've seen acknowledge on an album cover that he works the way Hans does. Obviously, not everyone's names will fit on the album cover, but it's still a nice step and a way to break the illusion that one person did it all.

Just wanted to point out how awesome it is that @bearmccreary is publicly crediting his studio/team like this! Other composers who work with large teams ought to take note.

@field_of_reeds You actually put your out just after I discovered this whole thing, which was extra cool because I actually got to enjoy it in real time rather than showing up years late to the party!

There's a new VICE article on @brekfest's Storm Alert theme, and it's extra fun because they are clearly mistaking me for someone else 😅 vice.com/en/article/88x…

@janusrose Oh my, I picked a bad week to be off Twitter! Thank you so much for putting this out there. It was great to talk to you!

@MartyTheElder Lol.. same here! I think I made it to ep 5 before I realized I had no idea what was going on and should probably cut my losses or go back and rewatch season 2.

So, I’m a quarter of the way through season 3 episode 6 of The Witcher on Netflix and I feel like I have no clue what’s going on. It’s like I haven’t watched it from the beginning. Am I the only one?

@machinster Great work!

@brekfest just now finding out you wrote the music I used in this animation. giving you credit where credit is due. your amazing!!

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@Neeto_Makar Thanks, Connor... Was great to talk to you!

I spoke to the wonderful @brekfest on the Weather Report Storm Alert track he wrote ages ago, and recently rediscovered celebrated by the internet. A nice, wholesome story to start your week off right. Give the piece a read, and the song a listen! A real banger.

“Yoko Shimomura didn’t have to go this hard” – the bewildering history of the Weather Channel’s hardest track vg247.com/weather-channe…

@comet_melting Now you've got me thinking about putting a band together 😉

@brekfest god i keep thinking about this track all the time and to know the name behind it now is rad. i'm sure you'd get thunderous applause if you showed up at a magfest (down in national harbor!!!) ahahaha

This is WILD. I wrote this almost 20 years ago and it's gone quasi-viral in the last couple of years. The YouTube video has half a million views!

@JovialEclipse I'm 100% certain it is backed up on a server at my old company, but I'm also 99% certain they are not legally able to share it...

@brekfest Is there a lossless uncompressed version of the song somewhere?

@GURGLEGUY12345 Probably the closest would be my website and sometimes random stuff on YouTube. New Years resolution will be to put my stuff out there!

@brekfest Do you post your music anywhere? I'm curious about what else you've made if you heard "weather alert" and decided THIS was what you'd make.

@stairmaster_ It's not a bad trade... You get health insurance, job security, support staff, and get to make music all day! But.. companies rarely have anything to lose by taking or giving credit, so it's kind of weird when they just... don't.

@MarcoDLC2 @field_of_reeds Nope... wasn't even on my radar at the time! Some friends of mine played a lot of Street Fighter II when we were in high school (not me, though.. I didn't really like fighting games), which afaik is the only game with Yoko Shimomura's music I had been exposed to at that time 🤯

@brekfest @field_of_reeds Did you at all have Kingdom Hearts in mind when making this?

The peak of hurricane season is upon us and it has been my duty, my very obligation as a Floridian, to finally arrange the 2006 TWC Storm Alert theme into a Kingdom Hearts battle track

@va_wanderer @field_of_reeds I spent a night recently reading through the comments on YouTube. It's truly incredible to see the response... but part of me worries about spoiling the allure of a good mystery!

@brekfest @field_of_reeds Would you believe that's a mystery people have been trying to figure out for years and years? Cause it has been.

@field_of_reeds I wish I could remember more about it... In particular, who was the producer/creative director/editor at TWC who, with at least 15 demos to choose from, picked THIS one.

@brekfest No way, amazing!! Some friends and I have spent ages trying to find anything about the original, haha. I'm so curious to know the story of writing for TWC of all things, but most importantly thank you for gifting us all with this track 😄

@field_of_reeds @thechainoffire

@thechainoffire I wish we knew who actually wrote it!