Get the Musical Mojo Back
My latest post for SCORECastOnline is up now: How to Get Your Mojo Back
This month’s theme on SCORECastOnline, the very cool site for film music composers, sound designers, and others in the same line of work, was Creativity, and more specifically the creative process.
There’s some fantastic posts on there on what was rather a tricky [...]
Minimalism: Quality, not Quantity
I have an obsessive personality. I’m also a bit on the faddy side. So my latest penchant is minimalism…
Not the musical variety (although I don’t mind a bit of Glass every now and again), this is rather the holistic, organisational, get-rid-of-anything-don’t-need kind of minimalism.
I’ll get on to the specifics in just a mo, but first [...]
TOCANLive: The Hunt Goes Live Online!
Slung Low, the fantabulous theatrical collective, is launching TOCANLive this Monday, 10th August.
TOCANLive is an Alternative Reality Game (ARG) that will expand the world of ‘They Only Come At Night’, Slung Low’s series of vampire shows, to a worldwide audience, and promote the next show, They Only Come At Night: Resurrection, which is on at [...]
SCORECast Online – Diversify to Get More Work
as a Film Composer
Whilst I’m really busy with several projects on the go at once, the blogging’s gone a little to pot.
Apologies for that
So, in the meantime, here’s a link to an article I wrote for SCORECast Online’s awesome new site on ‘diversifying’ your job description to get more work: One Man Band.
They’ve also a podcast [...]
Silence is Golden
It’s all been a quiet on the blogging front in the last month, and, for this, I apologise.
It’s because it’s been busy busy busy here! I’ve been working on developing the upcoming shows Beyond the Front Line and They Only Come At Night trilogy with Slung Low, and scoring and sound designing a gorgeous short film with [...]
Composing Music for Slung Low Theatre
This month it was my turn to write the ‘New Thoughts’ article for the Slung Low website, entitled ‘Why Music’.
You can read the whole post here.
In the article I cover a few basic, practical reasons for including music in a Slung Low show.
Slung Low makes installation and site-specific theatre. It’s anything but conventional, [...]
A Blog A Day 30-Day Challenge: Post Mortem
On the 10th May 2009, I set myself the challenge to post a-blog-a-day for one month. In total, I managed to post 21 times.
So, whilst I didn’t actually manage to post every single day of that month, I wrote more (and procrastinated less) than I had in all the other months preceding it since [...]
Copyright and Exclusivity
Visit the Music Store here
In going through old music to see what’s available to put up on the Music Store for licensing to picture, I’ve had to go through a fair few old contracts to check what I can and can’t do with the music.
To be honest, even my younger self was [...]
YouLicense White Label Music Download Store Set Up
The poll is still up to the right for what kind of posts you’d like to read on this site for the rest of my 30-day challenge. Let me know what you think ————————->
I’ve been working for a while now on getting my back catalogue of music that’s available to license for synchronisation [...]
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 [...]
30 Day Challenge – A Post A Day
I’ve become a fan of the 30 day challenge, where you pick a habit that you’d really like to create (or even one you’d like to lose) and you concentrate on doing that habit day in, day out, for a month.
The idea is that it takes 20 iterations of an action (or so) to [...]
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.
Trailer Podcast – Beyond The Front Line by Slung Low
Beyond The Front Line – Trailer (01:46)
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Click on the player to hear the trailer podcast for Beyond The Front Line, a outdoors installation theatre show produced by Slung Low in association with The Lowry Theatre. It’s playing 7th-17th October 2009 and is shaping up to be an unforgettably epic theatrical experience with performance, movement, lights, sound, video projection and pyrotechnics.
Moth To A Flame on Rollem Production’s Website
Moth To A Flame, a short film that I scored back in 2007 (that sounds like it’s ages ago!) is currently being screened on the Rollem Productions (Band of Gold, Fat Friends) Site as winning ‘Short of the Month’.
Networking on Twitter
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Twitter is an online, micro-blogging site which asks the simple question ‘what are you doing now?’ and you respond in 140 characters or less. I’ve been on it for about 3 weeks now, and it’s value as a networking and collaboration tool is probably what will keep me there.
Initially, I joined purely out of [...]
Online Music Licensing Follow-Up: YouLicense vs CuePop
Welcome 2009! In this new year, one of my main areas of focus will be on online music licensing, and using online resources to earn money from my pre-composed music.
Back Catalogue of Music
I have an enormous back catalogue of music, in all sorts of styles: classical, orchestral, epic, intimate, pop, contemporary, avant-garde, ethnic, pastiche, sound-a-likes [...]
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.
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?
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 [...]
