Chris Field Official Bio
Chris Field, Los Angeles musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.
Recent Work
Chris Field's recent work includes a batch of rock 'n roll songs, known in Los Angeles as The Better Days Sessions. This group of tunes includes Personal Elegy, A Safe Place to Hide, Better Days, Let Me In, Start Again, Autograph, The Salamander Song, I'm Not Ready, Jolie, and Early June. Click on the next tab, the Music page, to hear some of the new tracks! Chris' rock songs are available for licensing through chrisfieldmusic.com. See below for contact info or click on Contact page.
Film Music
Chris Field has written more than three hundred pieces of music for film trailers and television promotional campaigns. His music has been featured in the campaigns for Men in Black, the Twilight saga, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, Immortals, Yogi Bear, Alice in Wonderland, Into the Wild, Atonement, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Night at the Museum, Master and Commander, Austin Powers 3, Gangs of New York, Harry Potter, X-Men, Whole Nine Yards, Meet the Parents, Pokemon series, The Full Monty, and many others. His music is also licensed to Fox Broadcasting and the A & E Television Network. Click on the next tab, the Music page, to hear some of Chris' famous trailer pieces. Chris' film trailers are available for licensing through X-Ray Dog Music, Inc. See the Contact page.
Gothic Power
One of Field's more famous pieces is Gothic Power. Field composed and recorded Gothic Power for the trailer campaign for the first installment of the Lord of The Rings trilogy. Gothic Power had been chosen by director Peter Jackson as the main theme for the first movie's trailer campaign. Gothic Power was at the intersection of the then-new downloading phenomenon, and the fan frenzy over the movie trilogy. New Line Cinema posted the trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, online. When the trailer went live on the internet, it was downloaded 1.7 million times on the first day, which still stands as a record. "Gothic Power achieved the greatest download response for such a thing in Web history." Fans responded specifically to the trailer theme music and Field's career as a composer was given international attention. Gothic Power ultimately became so famous that it was parodied by Ben Stiller in the movie Tropic Thunder. Stiller used elements of Gothic Power as the trailer music for his character. Field re-worked Gothic Power for Stiller's character and the piece in Tropic Thunder is known as Gothic Monsters. (Stiller has also used various other pieces, written by Chris Field, in the Night at the Museum trailer campaigns.) Gothic Power is now recognized as a classical piece, in its own right, and has been re-recorded by European orchestras. Check out the Music page to hear Gothic Power.
Electronic Arts: Ultima X Odyssey/Lord of Ultima/Current Licensing of Entire Orchestral Score
Field composed an orchestral score for the Ultima X Odyssey game. Six of the original pieces are now the music for the world wide online game Lord of Ultima. However, Electronic Arts has since made the entire score, thirty one orchestral pieces, available for license. Click on the next tab, the Music page, to hear some of the tracks! See the Contact page for licensing through Electronic Arts.
Sub-Conscious
Field's album, Sub-Conscious, is a luscious bed of ambient chill out music, with eight tracks of surround sound: 1. Floating 2. Ave Maria 3. Five 4. Days 5. D&A 6. Blue 7. Mother 8. Sub-Conscious. The album is classified in the ambient and neo-classical categories of the new age genre. Sub-Conscious is a top selling album on cdbaby.com. It is also an editor's pick in two categories: Editor's Pick in the Neo-Classical category on cdbaby.com and Editor's Pick in the Ambient category on cdbaby.com. Sub-Conscious is the only music by Chris Field that is available for both licensing and sale to the general public. Click on the next tab, on the Music page, to hear the Sub-Conscious tracks. Click on buy music to purchase tracks or the physical cd.
And hey, Chris is mellow, has an open door and an open mind. With musicians, Chris likes to jam, collaborate, and he'll even sit in. With projects -- directors, producers, editors, music supervisors, labels --- Chris likes everybody! If you like Chris Field Music, then he'll probably like your stuff too!
So bring it on, baby, and let's see what we can do. Feel free to contact us.
