Eastside Music - Original Music and Sound

Lessons at Eastside Music

A short video highlighting the unique lessons offered at Eastside Music. Lessons offered include:

guitar lessons
studio production lessons
recording lessons
music theory
beginning keyboard lessons

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Our Show Reel: Original Music

Featured Audio: Creative Process

Longshot Features - Alex Ballentine - Creative Process by LongShot Radio

We contributed this segment for our friends at Radiolab and Longshot Radio, who recently produced radio for the 99% Conference in New York City. (It's not an Occupy thing; it's a gathering of creative minds hashing out where ideas come from and how to turn them into action -- the name is based on that Edison quote, "genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.")

Featured Project: The Greenbelt

We made a time lapse video of the Barton Creek Greenbelt in Austin, Texas. Created with still photos taken every 5 to 10 feet over the course of 7.5 miles, resulting in about 3000 photos, and cut to 2 and a half minutes. Original music composed by Alex Ballentine at Eastside Music.

Demand Curve
April 19, 2012
Tour de Thrillist
April 5, 2012
The Expatriate (2012)
March 8, 2012
Project Biashara
February 14, 2012
Disney
August 2, 2011

Recent Work

Demand Curve

We composed music for “The Demand Curve” (Mason Zimbler/Harte-Hanks), an ongoing video series about the effectiveness of social marketing. For these particular spots, The client had mentioned the band “Cake” as a desired feel for the music. We listened, and this is what we came up with.
Tour de Thrillist

Two men on a mission from God. Well not quite, but still, these guys were on a mission, traveling across the country from city to city and competing in challenges as they journeyed. The tour was sponsored by Thrillist, and when they hit Austin, they were locked in fierce battle to compose a “road trip ...
The Expatriate (2012)

We wrote a piece for this upcoming feature film starring Aaron Eckhart. The call was for a classical piano piece in the style of Frédéric Chopin. We had one day to write, perform and record this spot. Fortunately, Alex Ballentine dusted off the keyboard and successfully delivered this tune. Probably not what you’d expect from ...
Project Biashara

We composed the score for this short video, produced by Lee Rothenflue of Cut to Black. After he approached us with these powerful shots, there was no shortage of inspiration, and we were thrilled to be a part of the project. Project Biashara: This incredible program is designed for women living in Kibera Kenya, one ...
Disney

Add Disney to the list of credits for Eastside Music in 2011. In collaboration with One Pulse Music, Alex Ballentine composed original music for a Disney toy commercial.