Jorge Rivera-Herrans

June Choice Videos Poll

Hello friends! Here are the suggestions I received for this month's choice videos!!!

May Early Access Video - How I Made the Music for Hermes

Hello my friends!

Here is this month's early access video! This is how I made the music for Hermes, the messenger god!

I will admit this song is one of the ones I had the most fun making. It's fun to play, fun to sing, fun to act, and I'm very happy with it. :)

May Choice Video (2 of 2) - Update on Songs 38-40

Hello my friends! Here is the second May choice video! This is a general update on how rewrites are going for songs 38-40.

May Choice Video (1 of 2) - Olive Tree Snippet 3

Hello friends! Here is the first of two choice videos for May! This video is another snippet from the cut song Olive Tree! This is the bridge!

While I do love the melodies here, this clip reminds me of why I am re-writing songs 39 and 40. This draft serves its purpose in terms of providing a pretty song that reunites Penelope and Odysseus and incorporating a major element from the source ...

May Choice Video Suggestions Poll

Hello friends! Here are the suggestions I received for this month's Choice Videos!

April Early Access Video - Song 38 Snippet Verse2

Hello friends!

Here is another snippet of Song 38, which is currently titled King but I might end up changing the title of it at some point.

There are several aspects in this song that make me very excited: for one, the song is from the perspective of the suitors rather than from the perspective of Odysseus. The reason this I like this is because it lets us sit in how truly terrifyi...

April Choice Video 2 of 2 - Ruthlessness Verse2/Chorus 2 live

Hello friends! Here is the second choice video for April! This is me performing the 2nd verse and chorus Ruthlessness live!

I realized upon making this video that this may very well be one of the last times I sing this song! xD Since we have an actual Poseidon now!

Poseidon is one of the harder roles in the show to sing because he's supposed to have a sort of raspy, smokey kind of v...

April Choice Video 1 of 2- Olive Tree (cut song) Verse 2

Hello friends! Here's the first of two April Choice Videos! This is the second verse and chorus of the now cut song Olive Tree.

For the music, I had tried to keep it minimal relative to the more grandiose songs in the show. As you can hear, the majority of the orchestration consists of a nylon stringed guitar (Odysseus) and a viola (Penelope). 

While I do like the melo...

April Choice Videos Poll

Hello friends!

Here are the suggestions I received for this month's choice videos! I did my best to include all the suggestions that were doable, didn't necessitate other actors' voices, and aren't too spoilery.

Minor update to the Mortal Tier description

Hi friends! Just wanted to let you all know I'll be making a small change to the description for the Mortal Tier. I'll be removing the text: 

"(Video will be released to TikTok around the 2nd week of each month.)"

I had originally put this line in place so that new patrons wouldn't accidentally become a Mortal Tier Patron after their first Early Access video w...

March Early Access Video - The Circe Saga Intro

Hello friends! For this month's early access video, I wanted to show you guys the beginning of The Circe Saga!

SPOILER ALERT FOR OCEAN SAGA!!! SPOILER ALERT FOR OCEAN SAGA!!! IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS, DON'T READ THE REST OF THIS POST! <3

The previous saga, The Ocean Saga, ends with Odysseus narrowly escaping Poseidon as Poseidon destroys 11 of Odysseus's ships,...

March Choice Video (2 of 2) - The Odyssey vs EPIC

Hello friends! The prompt for this video was:

"How much of EPIC is inspired by Homer's The Odyssey and how much is from your own creation?"

The short answer is: I try to keep as many of the iconic characters/locations as I can, but I take creative liberties to shape events that serve the main theme of this adaptation.

In other words, if you wanted to use EPIC...

March Choice Video (1 of 2)- Astyanax in Just a Man

Hello friends! The prompt for this choice video was:

"Where in Just a Man does the baby die and how do you plan on showing that on stage and having it come across correctly?"

ALSO, I'm curious about something: when you guys are listening to the EPIC songs and envisioning it in your heads, it on stage? Is it an animated movie ? Live action movie? Let me know in the comments!...

March Choice Video Selection Poll

Hi friends! Here are the suggestions I received for this month's choice videos!

Unfortunately, I couldn't include ones about Ocean Saga release date/updates as I'm not supposed to divulge specific information on that yet. :) But once I can, y'all will be the first to know.

February Choice Video (2 of 2) - More about the lyric writing process

Hello my friends!

Here is second of two February Choice Videos! For this one, the prompt was: "I would love to learn more about the writing process of the lyrics. Challenges, influences, parts you enjoyed the most"

I realize now that I am typing this that I didn't explicitly state what part of this process I enjoy the most. My favorite part is when I finish writing ...

February Choice Videos (1 of 2) - Part of The Odyssey I Didn't Include

Hello my friends!

Here is the first of two February Choice videos! The prompt for this one was: "What part of the Odyssey do you wish you could have incorporated into EPIC and what do you think it would have sounded like?"

I think this is the oldest demo/snippet I'll have shown about EPIC! In fact, I think when I wrote this, the show wasn't even called EPIC yet. xD<...

February Early Access Video: The Importance of Pauses

Hello my friends!

Thank you all for your patience while I recovered from a sickness and a back injury. I appreciate you guys. :))

This month's early access video is on the importance of pauses in storytelling! It is a tool that I underestimated earlier in my songwriting journey and one that I have come to love!

In order for you guys to get the most out of your Patron membe...