Intel Gen 13 release video "A tale as old as time"

I've been working on quite a few projects with Intel and one of the most recent was recording a couple tracks for a short video that they were going to post on socials for the release of their 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family.

Intel Gaming's Post for A tale as old as time

Insta's embedded post isn't working for me and I don't know why and its making me sad :( but you can see the post if you click on it!

So I was approached with this project by my friend Will who is the main cam op for the creative agency (Bento) that I work with. He introduced me to the composer, Valeri Ortiz, who would be composing the piece for the video. I didn't know much about the video at the time besides that it would be around a minute and a half long.

Title of the short composition was "Core Memories"

The initial draft of the composition sounded like it was straight from a Disney sound track but it didn't exactly fit what we needed for a processor release (but tbh what is even considered fitting for a processor release that isn't just pure electronic music lmao). The revision is what we went with and you can hear the completed result in the Instagram link.

just warming up a little before the session, I haven't been practicing much this summer so I'm rusty

The recording session was booked at fabfactorystudio and the audio engineers for the session were Ethan Obbema and John Whynot. It was my first time at their studio and I gotta say, it was pretty lit. The recording room was well made with a very nice ventilation system built in behind the absorption panels. A lot of studios that I've played in don't have great ventilation or can't have ventilation during the session due to the sound of the wind blowing in thru the ducts but fabfactorystudio had it down.

Ethan and Valeri in the control room

We had some slight difficulties at the beginning of the session with the composition and some adjustments had to be made but after that, we just breezed thru the recording process and I finished everything in 2-3 takes. Fairly straight forward, nothing was too difficult and it came out sounding pretty sick. The iconic Intel sound at the end was pretty fun to play and even though the final edit had more synths than acoustic instruments, you can still hear the cello if you listen closely.

another shot of the control room with a clearer shot of the equipment being used, I should've gotten a shot of the rack but completely forgot sadge

This was a fun project to be a part of and the music matched up very nicely with the video in the end. Huge shoutout to Elizabeth Asher who was our onsite BTS photographer for the day and who took all the pictures I used in this post.