True Grit by Jim Paterson

This music was composed for a Game to tie in with the remake of the movie "True Grit". The different tracks are played in different environment levels, and also used within mini-games.

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:

Original Ragtime

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

These two pieces are much easier to play:

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:

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:

The Bay - The Series

The Bay The Series Jim Paterson contributed "additional music" to an online soap/drama series called The Bay. Its first season consists of 16 "webisodes" - 4 chapters of 4 parts each. All 16 Webisodes made so far can be watched on The Bay website. The series has had some great reviews and is expected to be converted into a season of half-hour episodes for Television on US and International channels.

Jim Paterson on IMDB (with resume).

Music for Corporate Video

I was commissioned to create music for this corporate video which also features on this website www.performize-IT.com:

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.

Music by Jim Paterson

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

Giant Gnome Productions

A couple of pieces by Jim Paterson have been used on episode 1 of "13th Hour" produced by Giant Gnome Productions. The pieces are:

Music for Animations and Games

Recent music by Jim Paterson has been to accompany web and mobile games designed by 4T2 Multimedia. The Crazy Sleigh site promoting Comet 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"):

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". You can download Midi and MP3 versions below and the sheet music score is available from "Score Exchange":

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:

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:

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


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