Circus Ride by Jim Paterson

There's a lively arrangement of "Circus Ride" played by the Tandarica Orkestar, a Balkan Circus Band based in Spain. This is their homepage on MySpace - select Circus Ride from the Playlist.

Jim Paterson, composer & webmaster

The mfiles website is maintained Jim Paterson who also composes music in a range of styles. Some audio samples are available on the Portfolio Page. Below is a list of client sites using music by Jim Paterson, and this is a trailer for the mobile version of "Car Jack Streets" which features this theme tune:

• Tag Games Dead Water, Rock'n'Roll, Football Pro, Love Guru, Car Jack Streets & Tumblebugs
• Gosub 60 Curious George, Camera Phone Darts, House Flipping Frenzy, Scooby-Doo: Hidden Object Mysteries, Speed Texting, Solitaire, Sudoku and Sherlock Holmes
• Digital Goldfish "Reach for the Starz"
• Quick2Play the game "React"
• Mobile Games Blogs - recent article (2007) by Jim Paterson about mobile games music, also on Business Week & the Quickly Bored Blog
• Midlet Review - older article (2003) by Jim Paterson about game music for mobile platforms
• Jim Paterson's homepage on Sibelius Music
• Jim Paterson's homepage on scotchsnap.com
• Music on animations on the Phillipines' Coastal and Fisheries Management information site www.OneOcean.org - diversity and shell-shock
• Gumshoe Online - is a web game
• MMI Music publishing brass band arrangements (by Nigel Hall) of Celtic Romance (cat 30401) & Legend of the White Knight (cat 40401)
• Livestock for Landscapes - music for the "Goat Project" Handbook e.g. Ragtime for Bedtime
• 4T2 Multimedia - developers of web games for Aiwa, Comet and Polycell
• Spark Entertainment - games "Dragon Tale", "eXode", "Bubble Trouble", "Monkeynoid" etc.
• Binary Graffitti - "Poker Showdown", "Sweet Dreams", "Diamond Hunter", "Chaos Realms", "Mixem", "Present Panic" etc.
• Progressive Media - games "Bombjack", "Sheep Mania", "Progressive Pinball - The Vikings" etc.
• Other clients: Dynamo Games, Plastic Cow Games, West of Pluto Software, Spooky Tornado Studio, Moovil Solutions and Double Click
• Football 1.00 - PC game featuring Rocky Beat Cowboy and Joplin's The Entertainer (mp3)
• Cosmic Music - Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland who first performed "Circus Ride" and "Sword and Sorcery"

Oniric Games - music by Jim Paterson

Oniric Games have released a playable demo of their Game "Forgotten Stories: Echoes of Destiny" featuring a number of pieces of music by Jim Paterson. MP3 versions of these pieces can be downloaded here:

• Lazy Waves
• Tango and Trio
• Rocky Beat Cowboy
• Sadness in the Rain

Original Music with a religious connection

To tie in with the Church and Christmas music sections on mfiles, here are original pieces with such a theme:

• Il Messia (The Messiah) - composed to accompany a short section of the Roberto Rossellini film, as an entry in a recent film music Award
• Rock Hymn - rock variations on an original hymn
• Short Hymn - a hymn tune in traditional style
• Gospel Tune - an original gospel style tune
• Weird Xmas - a whacky Merry Christmas tune

Recent Music by Jim Paterson

Here is some of my most recent Sheet Music published on SibeliusMusic:

• Life "a minimalist view" - for string orchestra
• A History of Scotland - for string orchestra
• DNA Moods - for a quartet of instruments
• Scottish Rock - for a folk band
• Heroic Deeds (orchestral) - film heroics
• Heroic Deeds (piano) - same for piano
• Beguine Again - for Latin Band
• Irrational Rose - for solo piano, with Jazz influences

Original Ragtime

For our recent "Ragtime" theme, we wanted to show that anyone can have a go at composing in this relatively simple style:

• Ragtime for Bedtime - traditional piano rag

These two pieces are much easier to play:

• Big Ben Rag - with Big Ben chimes
• In-sync Spiritual - to practice syncopations

Music for Animations and Games

Recent music by Jim Paterson has been to accompany web and mobile games designed by 4T2 Multimedia. The Comet Game site was launched for Christmas 2003 and features loads of amusing graphics and addictive gameplay as you help Santa to deliver parcels. Here are midi file versions of the music used to accompany the game (intended to be "Christmassy" and "Cheezy"):

• Introduction - this version without the words
• Icy Xmas - red parcels
• Xmas Land - green parcels
• Polar Xmas - blue parcels
• Twinkle Xmas - yellow parcels
• Jingle Xmas - purple parcels

Another game for the same company is available in Web and Mobile formats created for AIWA (now part of the Sony group) at the web-site Cosmic Boom. The music is used during the animated introduction, and if you manage to complete the game and get your name in the "heroes" list then you will see the game completed animation with more music. The music for these animations was adapted from a work called "Calypso Cocktail". Here are Sheet Music and Midi versions and you can download an MP3 file (size approx 2Mb) from SibeliusMusic:

• Calypso Cocktail - Sheet Music score
• Calypso Cocktail - MP3 file (2 Mb in size!)
• Calypso Cocktail - MIDI file

Original Orchestral "Film Music"

The following three pieces were originally published as separate works. They have been put together as a suite and arranged for brass band by Nigel Hall under the title "Legend of the White Knight" available from MMI Music:

• Sword and Sorcery - suitable for a fantasy movie
• Epic Rondo - suitable for a serious historical epic
• Heroic Deeds - music for a dashing film hero

The first public performance of Circus Ride and Sword and Sorcery was given by the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland (or "Cosmic") in their Family Concert on 14th April 2002. Here is an MP3 version of their performance of Circus Ride and the score and parts for these works are available from the links below:

• Circus Ride - fun piece for a Circus act
• Sword & Sorcery - fantasy theme

Here is a fun piece of Western "film music" for piano:

• The Happy Cowboy - Western theme (piano)