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The Soundiron/SCOREcast Mercury Symphonic Boychoir Extravaganza
Join your local SCOREcast Regional Community Chapter THIS WEEK and receive over $100 off on Soundiron’s new Mercury Symphonic Boychoir!
Read More →David Saunders Named SCOREcast’s Director of Global Community
London-based composer David Saunders tapped to lead SCOREcast’s global community development.
Read More →Happy 6th Anniversary, SCOREcast!
To kick off our 6th year at SCOREcast, the global SCO community put this video together to surprise our leadership team with an important announcement.
Read More →Semple, Fischer Take New SCO Roles
As SCOREcast’s 5th Anniversary celebration rolls on this month, there couldn’t be a better time for some of those faces to be added to the leadership ranks within SCOREcast!
Read More →Steve Jobs’ Legacy
As a film composer, I look around my studio and see how so much of my business is based on products that Steve Jobs touched. He was a true visionary not only in the tech industry, but in the world.
Read More →Community Counts
Community is really the driving force behind everything that we do at SCOREcast. Here is where we are taking that concept this year with a more intense focus.
Read More →SCOREcast: LONDON
The quality of film music born out of the United Kingdom is legendary and needs no introduction. With several talented orchestras and many skilled composers, the UK has become a major player in the film music industry. The British Invasion just had a reboot.
Read More →The Extinction of the Orchestral Player
If film musician employment follows the pattern of concert musicians at all, players might be fighting a losing battle. The national dialog regarding the importance of orchestral musicians is heating up in light of recent developments.
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SCOREcast 36: Charlie Clouser
In our last show of 2012, Deane and Brian visit at length with Charlie Clouser of Nine Inch Nails fame and composer for the “Saw” franchise and the just released “The Collection”.
Read More →SCOREcast 35: Michael Barry and Michael Patti
Deane and Brian speak with Michael Barry and Michael Patti, co-founders of Cinesamples, about the recent decision by the American Federation of Musicians union to deny contracts to sample library producers.
Read More →SCOREcast 34: Peter Rotter
Deane and Brian ring in six years on the air with premiere Los Angeles contractor Peter Rotter, whose mile-long resume features the majority of the biggest films of the last decade.
Read More →Happy 6th Anniversary, SCOREcast!
To kick off our 6th year at SCOREcast, the global SCO community put this video together to surprise our leadership team with an important announcement.
Read More →SCOREcast 33: Women in Film Music Roundtable
Deane Ogden sits down with five of film music’s most successful female composers for a discussion on the business. This insightful panel of composers includes Pinar Toprak, Sharon Farber, Marie-Anne Fischer, Tina Guo, and Ceyda Pirali and covers topics ranging from segueing between the concert and film worlds and the changing landscape of gender concerns in the film industry.
Read More →NAMM 2012: Sonokinetic Vivace
Deane Ogden chats with Sonokinetic founder Rob Vandenberg about his newest creation, “Vivace”.
Read More →LA Scoring Strings 2.0
Brian Ralston talks LA Scoring Strings creators Andrew Keresztes and Sebastian Katz into spilling the beans over the new LASS Version 2.0.
Read More →SCOREcast 32: Tom Salta
Veteran video game composer Tom Salta stops by to chat with the boys about the art and business of scoring video games during SCOREcast’s 5th Anniversary episode.
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Scoring to picture in Logic 9 (part 2)
In this second part of the “Scoring with Logic Pro” article series, Yaiza Varona talks about a few more features of Logic that can really make your life easier!
Read More →Scoring In PreSonus Studio One – MIDI Workflow
Presonus Studio One power-user Nikola Jeremic takes you through the process of MIDI workflow in Studio One!
Read More →Scoring to picture in Logic 9 (part 1)
Yaiza Varona guides you through the procedure of setting up Logic to score a movie, importing the movie and properly syncing it to your project.
Read More →Dynamic Controllers – Origins, History and Compressor Controls
After a brief introduction to mixing, Jorge Costa dedicates this and the next articles to dynamic controllers with central focus on compressors, how they operate and how to use them.
Read More →Scoring With PreSonus Studio One – Setting Up
Studio One power-user Nikola Jeremic takes you through the process of setting up Studio One for some serious scoring work!
Read More →Scoring With Presonus Studio One – Introduction
Presonus Studio One power-user Nikola Jeremic presents the features that make Studio One a highly versatile and essential tool in any modern composer’s arsenal.
Read More →Sequencing and Processing Woodwinds
In this second article about sequencing and mixing orchestral sections, Asimakis Reppas looks at how you can make your woodwind mockups come to life!
Read More →Orchestrating your Harmony in the Woodwind Section
Following the strings article series, Stellita Loukas now tackles woodwinds in a three-article series covering ranges, registers, characteristics, special techniques, how to orchestrate the melody and harmony within the woodwind section. This is the third and last article of the series, discussing ways in which the harmony can be orchestrated within the woodwind section.
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Forget Tech, It’s About the Notes
Composer Jeff Tolbert explains why it’s important to step away from the gear and make sure you’re actually doing what your job title suggests: composing.
Read More →How to Use Chord Voicings Effectively – Part 2
In this second part in a series on chord voicings, Robin Hoffman writes about low interval limits and explains how to effectively apply them to your music.
Read More →How to Create Tension with Climbing Scales
An examination into the boring old scale, and how it can actually be exploited to create tension in your music.
Read More →The Running Line in Orchestral Writing
Composer Alain Mayrand teaches us how to add motion and activity to our orchestral writing by using running lines.
Read More →How to Use Chord Voicings Effectively – Part 1
Robin Hoffman kicks off a new series on Chord Voicings by discussing how we hear consonance and dissonance.
Read More →Value Studies: A Painter’s Technique for Composers
How the Value Study, a useful technique from the world of painting, can be applied to the art of Composition.
Read More →Big and Small, Part 1: How to Make Your Music Small
In an industry where bigger is better, Jeff Tolbert discusses ways that you can take your music in the opposite direction and sound really small.
Read More →An Approach to Finding Your Voice
Alain Mayrand discusses what it means to find your own voice as a composer, and offers up suggestions for how to develop yours further.
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Templates I: Introduction
Sequencer templates have become an important part of most composers workflow. This first part of SC’s new template series introduces the topic and explains what templates can do for you.
Read More →SPOTLIGHT ON: “Drumasonic 2.1″ and Drumasonic “Luxury”
Got drums? We do! Johnny Knittle guides you through a tour of one of the most exciting things to happen to sampled drums in quite a long time: The “Drumasonic 2.1″ engine update and their newest drum library “Luxury”.
Read More →Scoring In PreSonus Studio One – MIDI Workflow
Presonus Studio One power-user Nikola Jeremic takes you through the process of MIDI workflow in Studio One!
Read More →How to Use iTunes as a Reference Database
One of the most underrated applications on the planet, iTunes can be a powerful tool for finding reference material and inspiration in a heartbeat. This article as the first in a series about iTunes for Composers shows you how.
Read More →Smaller Kontakt Library Developers
We all know the big names of sample libraries development. But what about the less-known ones? Matt Bowdler explores a number of gems you can find without having to re-mortgage the house or break the bank…
Read More →How to Use External VSTs with Sibelius 7: Part 2
In the second part of his tutorial, composer Derek Bourgeois deals with integrating VSL Vienna Instruments into Sibelius 7.
Read More →How to Use External VSTs with Sibelius 7: Part 1
Sibelius’ ability to use 3rd party VST instruments is a powerful tool for well-sounding playback while composing. Composer Derek Bourgeois in a two-part guest post guides you through his setup for integrating EW Play and VSL VI into Sibelius.
Read More →How to Make Large DAW Templates Load Faster
Making a large template work well without hiccups, but still not demanding extremely powerful hardware is no easy task. But fortunately it is a task where there is plenty of room for optimizations. This article shows you a few tips and may come in handy.
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What Are You Worth?
Composer Brian Ralston puts a different spin on how you sell yourself as a composer in today’s over-saturated market.
Read More →Aurora: A Temple Defiled, but Not Destroyed
The Aurora tragedy sent shockwaves through the filmgoing community and has almost silenced the filmmaking one. Is that the way we’ll leave it?
Read More →51 Marketing Ideas for Film Music Composers
Attention spans are short and very demanding. If you want to make your art into a business, you have to brand yourself and then market your art. No getting away from it.
Read More →10 Lessons on “Breaking In”
I often get asked for a checklist of things one can do to break in to the business. Here is my personal “top ten” of lessons learned.
Read More →Worst Advice for Beginning Composers
When you are starting out, everyone has an opinion. And here’s mine.
Read More →You’re Not Ready
You’ve been told you’re talented. You just graduated music school. You have your plane ticket. You’re gonna be famous. Not so fast, Johnson.
Read More →Richard Bellis: Re-Sophisticaton
Advanced technology has merely enabled us to be efficient, but composing music for media is much more than efficiency.
Read More →Why Composers & Lyricists Should Affiliate With The Teamsters
The road to Unionization isn’t simply paved with negotiations about pension and benefits… It is about the core definition of what we do as media composers and how we are perceived by those who hire us to accomplish that work.
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