Going to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Baby Shark

We wrote one of the songs for this year’s Baby Shark float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! “Welcome Home to Carnivore Cove” was one of three songs selected for the float, which was manned by K-Pop group ENHYPEN in celebration of the Baby Shark Movie. When we got this email we were very, very pumped.

The song was released on a compilation album, and can be streamed on YouTube or Spotify.

Thank you so much to Ellie Vainshtok and the team at Nickelodeon for having us!

Shape Island's 🎶 Musical 🎶 Halloween Special

We worked with the team at AppleTV+ on an original song for the Shape Island Halloween Special! Check out “King of Halloween” out now on episode 10 “Creepy Cave Crawl.” Search it on AppleTV+ or you can just click here.

The song is the big musical number of the episode and narrative turning point for Triangle. Prior to this performance, Triangle got a little too into the “trick” part of Halloween and drove away his friends. Now he’s deep in this creepy cave with these chaos creatures who love Halloween even more than he does. MUCH more... more... more…

Some credits!

”King of Halloween” was written and produced by Ryan Lofty & Courtney Lofty
Vocals performed by Scott Adsit as Triangle, and Maria Bamford, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, and Ryan Lofty as the monsters
Shape Island EPs: Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen, Ryan Pequin
AppleTV+ music execs: Frank Garcia, Brian Jefferson
Stop motion animation by BixPix

Also, series composer Andrew Carroll did a remix for the end credits and it rocks!

Recording Forward to the Moon with Budapest Scoring Orchestra

Earlier this year we learned Forward to the Moon (the planetarium film Ryan scored last year) was being updated to include footage from Artemis I. Artemis is a multi-stage space program and the first unmanned test flight successfully ran from September-December 2022. You can read about it on NASA’s website here. The film originally displayed 3D animation of the rocket taking off during the day, however the actual flight took off at night. So being that it was going to be reopened we asked… is there any time, budget, and/or interest in remastering the music? And let me tell you, we were shocked to hear “yes!”

Thanks to John Keller and Thor Metzinger at the University of Colorado Boulder, with grant funding from NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, the updated release of Forward to the Moon features a fully remastered score recorded by Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt, who is the most recent living person to walk on the moon, will screen it for the first time at the Meeting of the American Astronomical Society on June 5.

The movie is available at no cost for planetariums to add to their programming. As of May 2023, 375 planetariums in 52 countries have downloaded the first release to show in their theaters.

Ryan and all of us on the team put so much heart into this music! We hope it helps the next generation fall in love with the universe.

Credits:

Music by Ryan Lofty

Score Producer - Courtney Lofty
Composer Assistant - Brandon Liew
Orchestrator - Òscar Senén
Recorded by Budapest Scoring Orchestra
Conductor - Péter Illényi
Session Producer - Bálint Sapszon
Orchestra Coordinator - Bertalan Veér
Recording Engineer - Dénes Rédly
Live Drums - Daniel B. Hill


Not Quite Narwhal has a trailer!

Ryan & I and our incredible assistant Brandon Liew wrote all of the music for this series (except for the theme song) and you can hear a little sample in the trailer now! Live trumpets, lots of ukuleles, and a touch of unicorn spark!

Based on the book series by Jessie Sima, and produced by DreamWorks and Doberman, Not Quite Narwhal is coming to Netflix on June 19.