ANIMATION & VIDEO COMPOSITION

Animation credits: Karen LaFleur ©

Protostar • Balancing • Owl Moon

With music composed by Nancy Tucker

“Nancy Tucker is a master audio-storyteller. Her expressive instrumentals create a perfect-pitch connection to the storyline. Each song is an imaginary landscape of sound, so well crafted, it springs the animation to life with ease. It’s a joy to use her compositions in my animations.”  

KAREN LAFLEUR: Digital Artist • Writer • Animator

Creating Compositions for moving images

“I love to write music and I’ve had my sights set on writing for visual art for a long time. When Karen first asked me to compose for her animations I was thrilled. And as more people requested music for their projects, my opportunity to explore composing for moving images expanded. 

The process of writing for animations…It is a matter of feeling it … trying to feel what it is an artist is trying to get across, and also getting the rhythm right so that when images appear, there is music that coincides with whatever is coming into frame. Artists and videographers sometimes just send me still pictures … and from that I really get a sense of what it is they are trying to do with an animation. Sometimes we are working in our separate corners, and when we put the music together with the visuals, it just works and it’s magic.”  

Nancy Tucker

"As a video artist, I use music in animated video montages and I have had the honor to work with Nancy’s music many times (...) I love it when I am able to use Nancy’s music in my videos. Her musical compositions are delightful to work with because of the range of her abilities, her depth of emotional complexity, her whimsical playfulness, her mind-blowing technical prowess. Her compositions are stories unto themselves; sometimes drama at high-noon, sometimes a run-away slinky, sometimes a mid-summer pastoral  moment.

RAW DESIGN LAB: Douglass Ridgeway