Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak in Florida
This is Day 5 for me at the Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak Plantation, Florida. I’m here as composer with a great bunch of artists from Punchdrunk Theatre developing ideas for their epic, immersive, experiential, theatre adaptation of Woyzeck.
Ten Top Qualities of a Great Director
I LOVE working with directors that have any or all of the following qualities.
Is Film Music Art or Just Low-Brow Commercial Fluff?
Is any music that is created for a purpose, other than that of it’s own existence, art? Is film music art, or theatre music, or advert music, or music that appears on a CD-Rom presentation, or accompanying a website promo film, or music on a trailer? Even if the music’s primary purpose is purely commercial – to sell that product or promote another – does that preclude its intrinsic value as art?
Looking for a Film Music Composer Job Online?
Try Out ‘Teamscoring’
Any budding film composer really really needs to get involved with The Composer Collective. An online database, forum and resource for film music composers, they’ve just recently started ‘Teamscoring’: there’s a project in the works – the last three projects include a documentary, a drama feature and a sci-fi feature, just in the last week – and there’s the opportunity for every single member of the Composer Collective to get in on scoring it!
Online Music Licensing – How to Make Money from your Back Catalogue
Today I’ve been uploading music to YouLicense and CuePop. These are both sites in the business of online music licensing that will put that back catalogue of unused music to good use and hopefully make you some money! If you’ve also been savvy enough to keep your copyright and licensed your commissioned music non-exclusively, then [...]
Free Blogging Course
I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.
I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve [...]
Tips for Composing Music With A Computer
(ie How To Make It Sound Good)
Composing on a computer sequencer with software/outboard synthesizers and samples is quite a bit different to composing for real instruments. There’s no subsitute for an orchestra when that’s the sound you want. However, if you think of your kit as something other than an orchestra-in-a-box, and write instead to its strengths, you might not [...]
