What Kind Of Posts Would YOU Like To See?

Take a look at the poll at the top of the sidebar to the right: I want to know what YOU want to see and read here. You decide what I write about next. ————->
The categories are pretty self-explanatory, but if there’s something you’d like to know about that I haven’t put in [...]

SCOREcast

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It’s Sunday so I’m gonna keep this short and sweet
SCOREcast is a podcast series that I’ve just recently discovered, started by Deane Ogden, a fabulous film composer from LA that I recently became twitter-friends with. Why not follow him too: @deaneogdenmusic; and Scorecast is also on twitter as @scorecastonline.
It’s been [...]

Beyond The Front Line – Trailer for a Slunglow Show

Beyond The Front Line is a new show by Slunglow, currently in development and due to play at the Lowry, Manchester in October. Below is the new trailer…

Online Drama ‘THE END IS NIGEL’ goes LIVE

‘THE END IS NIGEL’ is an online offbeat comedy-drama about a possible impending apocalypse…
This project was originally commissioned by SCREEN YORKSHIRE and BLINK to be a two-minute film for mobile phones, but [became] a little high-concept but low-budget online world full of webcomics, blogs and dummy websites, following saxophone-wielding deities, shady corporations and facing life after university as Verity tries to find out what happened to Nigel.

Sound Mixing Techniques for Online Web Audio

This is what I’ve discovered specifically for mixing sound acceptibly for delivery as audio online via website.

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 [...]

Writing Music for Theatre – Helium

The ’short adventure for one’, Helium, has completed its run at the Barbican.
4 stars in The Guardian
The show is a theatrical installation, or ‘box show’ where an audience member travels through a number of specially-constructed rooms featuring digital audio, video and live performance.  The audience is invited to follow Bella’s imaginary journey through her Grandfather’s [...]

First Post

Hi – and welcome to my new blog!  
My first post comes on one of the last few performance dates of ‘Helium’ by Slung Low, performing at The Barbican in London to riotous acclaim (4 stars in The Guardian, same in Metro), and the news that I’ll be off to Florida in October with the [...]