Need Epic Travel Music? Recording Original Soundtracks from One's Bedroom (with 8 videos)

by George Pontino Jr.

Note: With embedded travel videos below the article

Music is a universal language as they say. It moves us emotionally and affects our inner beings. To many, music is life. There's even the so-called LSS syndrome (Last song syndrome in which you sing a line or two of a song nonstop for hours). Tralalalala. Admit it, you've done it. Read on...

Gerard Pontino uses Komplete Kontrol keyboards

 while recording in his Bedroom Studio 

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The Emotional Driving Force that is Music. So music can easily cling to our emotions. It helps us soften our hardened hearts or can make us release our inner sentiments as we relate to its lyrics or just the beats. Or most of the times, it is there just to provide us our own personal entertainment or kind of escape from reality; any moment, in our own chosen time. Meanwhile, others need music to add dramatic spices to their YouTube or Facebook videos. Without music, how can you effectively engage your audience? And this is the tender meat of my blog article. I'll share to you the story of a person close to my heart who loves to make music; original recordings that add soulful structure to videos. Let me put it this way. He's a musician/composer during his free time in his bedroom and an I.T. support on long working hours in a cold office room. Being the Server and Network Administrator facing Unix issues from time to time can be taxing. So, musicmaking frees him from the challenging realms of I.T. work. But before I'll introduce him to you, let's ask ourselves how important music or a soundtrack is, really?

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So, Why is a Soundtrack so Important? Just imagine a horror movie without a soundtrack. Even the almost silent movies The Quiet Place and Gravity, flicks that have less talking and the slightest sound effects due to the nature of its screenplay, has some music strategically recorded and placed on some parts of the film. These tracks give a push or an emotional attack to viewers. You see, sound elevates our senses  in certain ways. High screechy violins are mostly for horrors and  broken springs or funny toinks and twangs of wires add cartoonish elements to comedies. Music drives you to cry, to cower in fear, feel inspired, fall in love or simply laugh. 

Gerard gives some inputs at an Ableton Live software basic workshop 

held at ARENDO Coworking Space in La Salle Ave., Bacolod City

How Possible can a Bedroom become a Recording Studio? Nowadays, video producers who are into travel and weddings also need music to help them convey their video's visions. And that is where the work of musicians comes. Usually, the great outdoors need a cinematic kind of music to be performed by a full orchestra that needs a wide expensive recording hall, but that's not the case nowadays. Yup, a dramatic music that is equally so epic just like in the movies can be composed and recorded in one's bedroom or living room; in your own chosen time. Equipped with the right experience, equipment, and skills you can even record an epic one on your own (yup, solo) and after a mix, you can just fall straight to bed, listen and enjoy it until you to slip away in dream land.

Recording guitar rifts on his workstation

Now, finally I'm introducing my younger brother, Gerard Pontino, who records different kinds of musical style in his bedroom that doubles his studio. While in his work he troubles server problems remotely via a remote computer at his office, at home he dabbles and tweaks beats, tempos and notes that he performs and are recorded on his music software also on a computer. Recording alone during his free time, surrounded with his gears and instruments, his musical outputs finally finds a way online and have been used in many productions such as travel adverts, prenup and wedding videos. His variety of sounds from inspirational to robotic to romantic to reggae to chill and more genre have been posted in his soundcloud account for the world to listen to. And this where the magic of collaboration happens virtually. (continued below)

Making beats with a drum pad on a loop machine 

How does collaboration works when a musician and a producer are thousand of miles away from each other? Thanks to the advent of technology, video producers and musicians can collab with each other for a certain video project despite not meeting in person yet. The internet, with  social media, cloud computing and voip communication apps, opened doors for both parties to virtually meet up and work together in a very productive way. You see, my brother is currently Singapore-based and he connects video producers to his online sound portfolio to them. Indeed, distance knows to bounds to these producers who are based in the Philippines, Middle East or those who are on the move, meaning most of them have no permanent address and makes the internet their platform to connect with clients and collaborators wherever the are--this day they are cutting and pasting clips in a hotel in Thailand and next two days,  they are busy rendering their video files in a coworking space in Bali for the clients and social media world to see, for example. The world has become small, after all, with this kind of collaboration being practiced. (See the 8 produced videos below)

Here are  the 8  travel or tourism promotional projects produced by different teams which utilized 
my brother's music as its soundtracks (WATCH):

1. THAILAND Travel / Hospitality Videos by the DroneGuys
Music: Gerard Pontino
Title: You
                                                                   PHUKET

2. PHILIPPINES Travel video by Christer Isulat
Music: Gerard Pontino
Title: Fly High

TOURISMO FILIPINO

3. SIPALAY City, Philippines video by Christer Isulat
Music: Gerard Pontino
Title: Journey

SIPALAY Charter Anniversary

4. TAIWAN TRAVEL video by Vincent Hablan
Music: Gerard Pontino
Title: Alone

5. Abu Dhabi Travel Trailer video by Ashley Yee
Music: Gerard Pontino
Title: We Are Free

6. Al Ula, Saudi Arabia (Episode 2) travel documentary by this blog's author, George Pontino Jr.
Music: Gerard Pontino
Titles: Fly High, Light, and We Are Free ,

THE SAUDI COMPASS Part 2

7.  PCCP Midyear Convention Trailer in Negros 
Director: Jonathan Lindaya
Voiceover: Christer Isulat
Music: Gerard Pontino

Title: You

Philippine College of Chest Physicians

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