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The store also allows users to sign up to the mailing list, download free mp3s, and preview upcoming album releases.
03.12.10
The new Star Trek Online PC game Spot. The cue is called, "BattleStations". Licensed through X-Ray Dog Music
12.03.09 Scoring Sessions.com released an article about the music of The National Museum of the Pacific War. The grand opening of the museum is Dec 7th, 2009. Justin's music can be heard as you walk through the exhibit's new 32,000 square feet renovated music. The George H.W. Bush Gallery will take visitors on the most extensive historical walkthrough of the war in the Pacific.
12.02.09
Justin is currently writing music for DVD release of James Cameron's upcoming epic film, Avatar. It's a special features video that will be on the DVD. Look for it when it's released on Blu-Ray. His music was featured on the TV Campaign as well.
11.25.09 Justin's shortfilm, "Bits And Pieces" places 2nd place in Jury Panel Vote and 3rd Place User Vote @ DVXuser.com
Cast:
Aileen Davila as LeeAnn
David Collier as Monster
Nicholle Walton as Florence
Crew:
Music, Edited, VFX, SFX, Produced & Directed by: Justin R. Durban
DP & Produced by: John Hafner
Written and Produced by: Leah Weinberger
Production Design by: James McMahan
Makeup by: Jessica Isam
07.07.09 "Mahlen"... A 6:48 short film placed top 8 finalist for DVXuser.com's QuestFest Competition. It ended up placing 6th place overall. The film is now online and also going through some film festivals.
Tagline:
Our technology should be shared with the world, Elizabeth. Not One.
Short Synopsis:
Time is Running out for Robert Cristo’s wife, Elizabeth. Together, they have been secluded from society while Robert has desperately continued his nanotechnology research fused with advanced robotics that will aid in her cure.
Running Time: 6:48
Format: 1280 x 550 HD
Shot with the Canon HV20 + Twoneil Deluxe 35mm Adapter
Filmed with 35/50/85 mm Nikon lenses
Date Filmed: June 14th-15th, 2009
Date Completed: June 30th, 2009
Filmed in Lakeway, TX (Austin, TX)
Directed by: Justin R. Durban
06.24.09
Commissioned to write a Full Orchestral Music Suite for the "Admiral Nimitz Museum".
The National Museum of the Pacific War. Renavations opening December 7th, 2009. For more information about the museum located in Fredericksburg, TX, please visit their website. www.nimitz-museum.org
- The new trailer for Sci Fi animated movie, "Battle For Terra" uses Justin's music for their recent trailer release. The movie was originally called, "Terra" but was renamed after Lionsgate picked it up. You can hear the cue, "Battlestations" at 1:42 to the end.
- The new trailer for Square Enix's latest video game franchise, Star Ocean - The Last Hope is now online. The cue, "The Guardian" starts after the line, "It's Uless to Resist.." which is ~0:52. The music spans all the way to the end. You can hear, 'The Guardian' (which is called, 'A Comic Book Adventure') on the mini player.
"The Box" A 6 minute short film
Directed by: Justin R. Durban
Starring: Mat Raney & Tristin Koppie
Written by: Mat Raney
Shot with Canon HV20 + Twoneil 35mm Adapter View Here >>
11.25.08
- Justin's music was used in the Blu-Ray National Advertising Commercial Campaign. You can view the BluRay spot here:
11.10.08
- "City of Gold" was used in the Final "Australia" Trailer:
Australia's Trailer Music, "City of Gold" starts at, "1:22" and spans to the end of the trailer. The film stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The cue was licensed through X-Ray Dog Music
- InAlienable Soundtrack Now on sale.
Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives,
Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from nother
world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA. Is this
his new son or--as the government believes--a threat to mankind?
Music By: Justin R. Durban Director: Robert Dyke Writer: Walter Koenig Cast: Richard Hatch, Courtney Peldon, Marina Sirtis, Erick Avari, Jay Acovone, Judy Levitt, Andrew Koenig, Pat Tallman, Gary Graham,
Alan Ruck, Philip Anthony Rodriguez, Walter Koenig
- Mummy 3 - One of my drum cues was used in a Mummy3 Spot. I haven't found it yet, but I'll post a link when that happens. The cue was called, 'Dueling Blades Drums' from the X-Ray Dog Music Library.
08.01.08
- Star Trek - Of Gods and Men Soundtrack is now available. You can listen to more mp3s and download some of the tracks on the web site. The eAlbum was broken down into three .zip files for each of the three Acts of the film.
- Three new LIVE orchestral cues added to the music player. The three tracks were recorded with the San Fransicso orchestra at Skywalker Ranch. City of Gold, No Honor No Glory, and Call to Duty. Call to Duty was originally a trailer piece I wrote for Brandon Morris's film, "Raiders Over Tokyo"
- My short film "Solecism" is now available online. Created for the DVXuser.com TimeFest http://www.vimeo.com/1296774
- I recently completed the feature film score to "The Blackout" directed by Robert Sanders at Starway Pictures. More clips and MP3s will be available soon.
- FAT MONSTER FILMS swept both top awards at the DVXUSER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in HOLLYWOOD with the short film “O2.” More than 70 films were entered and FAT MONSTER FILMS won both the audience FIRST PLACE award and the BEST FILM AWARD selected by a blue ribbon jury of industry panelists led by the oscar winning producer of “Schindler’s List,” “Jurassic Park,” and “Rain Man.”
- My son is growing up so big!!! :) Here he is at 7 Months old. crawling. Teething. and getting into trouble. You can also see him in his first acting debut in my film, "Solecism"
06.17.08
- My cue, "No Honor, No Glory" hits the Incredible Hulk TV Spot #5. NHNG is from the X-Ray Dog music library disc, Argos which was recorded live at Skywalker Ranch. You can view the spot here:
- "Star Trek - Of Gods and Men" is officially complete! The Soundtrack to OGAM is coming soon... You can download the first two acts in .zip format at the OGAM forum.
- You can now listen to one of my Live Orchestral Cues, 'City of Gold' at my myspace.com/edgen page. City of Gold is part of the X-Ray Dog Music library disc, "Top Dog". It was one of three tracks recorded at Skywalker Ranch. The other other two: "No Honor, No Glory" and "Call to Duty". Check it out!
03.06.08 - Added three music cues to the short film, 'Highwaymen" in the credits section.
- INTERVIEW with Robert Danils @ Visions in Sound CKMS fm. You can hear some of the cues from the Star Trek of Gods and Men Soundtrack. You can listen to the interview here:
02.11.08 - Added a few entries in the credits section for 2008 :)
- Skywalker Ranch:
I got the opportunity to record three of my cues with a live orchestra at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County CA. Read more about it in my blog
Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA. Is this his new son or--as the government believes--a threat to mankind?
"InAlienable" stars Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica), Courtney Peldon (Boston Public), Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: Next Generation), Erick Avari (Stargate, Heroes) and Walter Koenig (original Star Trek). The strong supporting cast includes Jay Acovone (Stargate SG-1), Judy Levitt (Babylon 5), Andrew Koenig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Pat Tallman (Babylon 5), Gary Graham (Alien Nation, Star Trek: Enterprise), Alan Ruck (Star Trek: Generations, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Philip Anthony Rodriguez (Jake 2.0, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager)
I've officially signed on to start the score to the Turkish feature film, SEMUM. Semum is a horror film by director Hasan Karacad and produced by Calinos Entertainment. You can watch some BTS footage from YouTube here and here .
I'm also proud to announce I've joined the team and crew for the Machinima film: Sands of Fire. SOF is a 45 min film shot by Daniele Ciccone aka Little_Donkey&
Davy Staelens aka StRuPiE. The trailer can be viewed here:(requires Divx Player)
11.17.07 Rasmus Tirzitis from Star Wars - Threads of Destiny just launched a new website with a teaser trailer that I scored. Check it. The music is a 'loose' interpretation of John William's score, "Duel of Fates" http://www.tirzitis.se/threadsofdestiny/
10.15.07 It's been a big few months.. Sorry I'm not able to post more often. Regardless, enjoy the new musics and links to the films. Lots of other stuff in the works and keeping my brain busy. :)
Feature Films: - Wrapping "InAlienable". A Feature written by Walter Koenig.
-
Just completed the feature film, 'Redemption'. A Western Film by Robert Conway.
Coming This Holiday Season...
"
Edgen Christmas Volume II" :)
06.28.07 - "By
Your Command" the Battlestar
Galactica fan film, reaches the front page
of SciFi.com.
Starring Paul Birchard, Lisa Gardner, Jeremiah
Reynolds and Jennifer Byrne. Produced by:
Carter Ferguson. Directed by Colin Ross
Smith over at Foghorn
Films.
Music by me. :)
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04.26.07 - My Kings and Kingdoms
track, "Divine Crusade",
available through X-Ray
Dog Music, graces the Theatrical
Trailer#2 for Harry Potter - The Order
of the Phoenix.
(my cue starts roughly around ~1:23 - ~1:40)
04.17.07 -
Added 2 Music tracks to the music player "The Spartan Empire"
(Dark/Epic/Rock) (.mp3)
"EdgenDemo Reel - '06-'07"
- The First
3 minutes of "Star Trek - Of Gods and
Men" is now available at the official
website: www.startrekofgodsandmen.com
- MT SAT makes
its way to the front page of CGTALK and
3dTotal. Websites dedicated to the art of
digital animation and production.
You can View the full 3D film here:
03.14.07 -
Added 4 Music tracks to the music player "Parker OST"
"Moment OST"
"A Life OST"
"MT SAT OST"
- Added VEOH video player + short films
in Videos
- Wrapped music to the Feature Film, "Beauty
and the Beast - A Latter Day Tale"
Added "JM11",
"Dead Inside", "Goliath",
"Destructive Reconciliation",
"Delicate Measures", "Prince
of Toads", "Phoenix Agenda - Hand
to Hand", "Brown Waters",
"Lakeside", "Prophecy Trailer",
"Max Payne: Payne and Redemption -
Cello", & "Phoenix Agenda
- En Route" to the music player.
Check back soon for the release of "The
Phoenix Agenda - OST" and "GPS
The Movie - OST".
10.15.06 "Lakeside"
& "Brown Waters" - 6:00 Short
Films now online. (co-director of Lakeside)
(writer/director of Brown Waters)
09.03.06 Added new music to
the players. "The Phoenix Agenda OST - En
Route" (Suspense)
The short film "Katana" by Chrisitan
Breitling and Konstantin Hubmann is finally
online.
You can view it here:
08.15.06 Added new music to
the players. "The Holy Jewel OST"
(Action/Adventure)
Added, "GremlinZ" to the videos
section. A short film by Chad Costen.
08.12.06 Added new music to
the players. "Katana OST"
(Suspense/Action)
08.07.06 Added Photos "His Day To Remember"
(16mm Short Film)
"Vengeance"
(Final Mix Session)
08.06.06 Added new music to
the players. "I Hate Clowns"
(Comedic Action) "His Day to Remember OST"
(Drama) "Duality OST"
(Creepy Pyscho)
07.21.06 Added new music to
the players. "Thoughts" (Piano
Solo)
07.21.06 Added new music to
the players. "Alpha Command"
(Action/Adventure) "Darkness OST"
(Drama) "C.R.A.M.E.R. OST"
(Action) "Love, Alicia OST"
(Drama)
07.09.06 Podcast Interview with
Twenty One Productions
Read and Listen to it In my Blog..
07.05.06 Added New Videos to
the Videos Section. "Supermates",
"Tough Luck", "RFEyeD",
"The Stars Above", "Darkness",
"Love, Alicia"
Added New Music to the Music
Players:
"Superman" (remix), "The
Vineyard", "Subconcious",
"Subconcious Drums", "Gallone",
"Passage"
06.30.06 "Kings and Kingdoms
- Devine Crusade"
Is now available in the player for listening
only. The drums are from the "Vengeance"
cue just different music.
I also finished up a short film for www.dvxuser.com
called, "The
Stars Above". You can view it here:
It's a one man show armed with a DVX camera
:) Website coming soon.
I also finished up 4 short films and they
will all be only shortly. Just have to set
up their sites too. So much to do. So Little
time. So much fun. Not enough money.
I'm also moving at the end of this month
so yet another obstacle to add to my life.
eeesh.
05.26.06 Added a nice streaming
music player to the front page.
05.12.06 I just added "Videos"
to the music section of this site to showcase
some of the scoring projects that I have
recently worked on for your viewing pleasure.
A special thanks to "YouTube"
and "MySpace" videos for hosting
the videos to save on my bandwidth. However;
you can download some of the movies along
with the .mp3 files.
I have also started on the Kings And Kingdoms
Trailer and you can read more about it and
my Full Orchestral Cue, "Vengeance"
at my blog.
Remember to RSS feed if you want to keep
up with my work and adventures.
04.23.06 I just got back from
recording my Kings and Kingdoms Cue, "Vengeance"
with the Northwest Sinfonia orchestra at
Bastyr University Chapel in Seattle, WA
with X-Ray Dog music. Audio Clip coming
soon!
03.27.06 Composer for 3D Animation
short film,
"The Sacred Stone of Horus"
by: HaJü Sodeikat of the German Film
School.de
03.24.06 Composer for 3D Animation
short film, "Awakening" - by:
Gabriele Kaiser. German Film School.de
02.26.06 OK... Yup.. I finally
did it. I got myself a blog.
If you are looking to be amused by my random
babbling, then this is the place to go.
Obviously, there's not much here right now,
but I will post my latest work, links, videos,
Kings
and Kingdoms status and/or random finds
here. Check back often for updates. I also
just finished a 3D animation Trailer for
the students at the German Film School called,
"Daughter of the East Wind". I
created orginal, 'traileresk' music for
the piece. I think its pretty damn coolio.
:) Visit the 'credits'
page for the link to the movie.
Justin R. Durban is a modern composer who creates "upliftingly dark" cinematic film and game music. His work has been involved with such titles as Firecreacker by Steve Balderson, Warner Brothers Taking Lives trailer, Stomp The Yard Trailer, Star Trek Of Gods and Men, Star Wars Threads of Destiny, Raiders Over Tokyo, GPS The Movie, Killer Bean, Grey Man, Twelve Steps Nowhere, Sacred Stone of Horus, Daughter of the East Wind, The Sci-Fi website The Triangle, Spirit of Liberty, Cross and the Towers, Katana, The Holy Jewel, Cramer, Duality, Supermates, Tough Luck, RF Eye D, The Stars Above, Darkness, Love Alicia, Phoenix Agenda, Beauty and the Beast - A Latter Day Tale, MT SAT, Valoo, Parker, Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix, Star Trek, Of Gods and Men, InAlienable the Movie, and countless short and feature length films across the world. He has contributed music works to the movie trailer company, X-Ray Dog Music and is currently heading up a massive epic sci-fi fantasy trilolgy project called, Kings and Kingdoms with the first episode entitled, Eless.
