Mastering The Art Of Sonic Improvisation

 

Mike Beever
 MUSIC FOR FILM est 1985

Mike Beever has been making music for 30 years. Born in the UK and trained in piano technology, building and design he has spent most of his life around music and production.
A decade spent recording
in London involved producing EP's for Coldplay and becoming engineer in residence for Fierce Panda Records, the UK's finest indie label. In more recent times Mike has turned his hand to production music  delivering music for Sony and the high profile EDF Energy advert which reached millions of viewers in the UK.

  LATEST NEWS

Released May 2013.The Seasons of Man EP cover art

Out Now!!
Four
new tracks released from new cinematic piano collection.

Klavierwerke 3
Released Jan 2013
 
Recorded at the Nelson School of Music, NZ. Featuring 4 tracks of cinematic piano with minimal orchestration.

The Munich Sessions cover art The Munich Sessions
Released April 2012.

Commissioned by Extreme Music, London for their Piano Works 2 album the follow up to the hit track The Farmer.

Composed over 4 months and recorded in 12 hours on a new Steinway D via 24 bit recording.

Mike Beever

The Leipzig Sessions cover art

The Leipzig Sessions
Released Nov 2010.

Commissioned by Extreme Music, London for their Piano Works album. Contains the track The Farmer which was used on the famous EDF Energy Olympic

ad reaching millions of UK viewers.

Mike Beever
The Farmer Tutorial cover artThe Farmer Score
Due to popular demand the EDF Energy ad music is released FREE in a PDF downloadable score. You will find it attached to an audio tutorial describing the options for performing this popular piece.
FREE DOWNLOAD 

The Remixes
Released July 2010

This 12 track album contains music from the first four albums of the Music For Film series. Each of the 12 tracks has been remixed in various forms in multiple genres.
FREE DOWNLOAD


The Lost Octave
Released Oct 2011

 
This 12 track album contains the outtakes from the 2010 recording session using the Steinway Model D at the Nelson School of Music, NZ. Recorded using four Neumann microphones in 24bit stereo.
Buy 1 get 1 FREE

Buy any album from the 'Music For Film' series and receive any additional album free. This offer applies to downloads and CDs only and not iTunes or other digital downloads. Just purchase any album and email us which additional album you would like and we will issue a download code

2006     Music For Film, Vol 1       
2007     Music For Film, Vol 2       
2008     Music For Film, Vol 3       
2009     Music For Film, Vol 4       

2010     The Leipzig Sessions      

2010     Remixes For Film            

2010     Early Piano Works          

2011    The Lost Octave               
2012    The Munich Sessions      
2013    Klavierwerke   3              
2013    Seasons of Man EP         

  SHOWREEL

EDF Energy Advert:

Music written & recorded by Mike Beever in December 2010 and
commissioned by Extreme Music production library UK.

Originally called The Farmer this track has been at no.1 in the
 contemporary piano charts on iTunes, UK for many weeks.

Seen by over 10 million viewers throughout the English summer of 2011 Hear the track The Farmer in it's entirety here:


              Mike Beever The Farmer (Fated Breath) >
              Download the score Free HERE >
Sony Vaio FW Laptop Advert:

Music written & recorded by Mike Beever in July 2007 and commissioned by HMX Media, London UK.

This recording using an upright piano and drums loops was put together
over a week and used to market the Sony Laptop worldwide.

Seen by over 300,000 viewers on YouTube

Oddville Showreel 

Featuring the solo piano composition 'A Leipzig Legacy' taken from 'The Leipzig Sessions' licensed to Extreme Music Ltd.

 

Mike Beever produces Coldplay's 1st Single

In 1999 Mike produced Coldplay's 1st single for Fierce Panda Records,
Recorded at Station Studios, London in February 1999 It sold 1500 copies and went to #107 in the UK Charts. Mike used special miking techniques to captha ambience on the B side 'Easy to Please' Which became a cult Coldplay track
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