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.
Read More →SCOREcast 31: Total Request (Sorta) LIVE!
In our first Q&A episode, we open up Twitter, Facebook, and a hangout on Google+ to hear what’s on your mind about writing, producing, “politiking”, and navigating the business.
Read More →Is “Score Design” Dead?
Composers LOVE to say that they use all of their own sounds. We call B.S.!
Read More →The Burnproof Film Composer
In our industry, it’s go, go, go, go, go, and go some more. How long can you drive on one tank of gas?
Read More →What’s Original?
There are 12 tones, and only so much you can do. Right, James Horner?
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Heather Fenoughty: Acknowledge Your Success
I cannot emphasize enough how incredibly important it is to acknowledge your success in creating, to completion and delivery, a musical score. This music that you have produced is an integral part of the film, show, game or whatever project it is. It could not exist in its current form without your efforts. For the sake of your growth as a composer, sound designer, or other post-production professionals, you must underline the importance to your own psyche that this is a moment to be emphasized and cherished, that it is something desirable – and so to be repeated.
Read More →Getting a Little Queasy
Marc Shaiman will tell you that one of his best-known scores, for City Slickers, came into this world with more than its fair share of agony. One of the toughest parts to write was the famous cattle-rustling scene—Shaiman says he was scared out of his mind by the temp track. He felt like “the ghost of Copland [...]
Read More →Your Gear Will Not Save You
Gear is, in a word, awesome. And I mean that in the literal, original sense of the word. When I walk into my studio—especially now that I’ve done some gigs and accumulated some sample libraries—I have a feeling akin to reverence. Not in an egomaniacal way (the High Holy Temple of Film Music! Look upon [...]
Read More →Getting Past the Samples
Here’s something that goes somewhat against the grain of all the whiz-bang gadgetry we’re focusing on at the moment. Regardless of what Santa leaves beneath your technological tree this season, you’ll eventually find yourself facing that blank canvas… once again, just like always. While a new array of sounds may inspire you to work just [...]
Read More →Gear-Free
This week I’m toggling off of Satterwhite’s article yesterday. He said: Under the right conditions, I would probably not think twice about abandoning most of my gear in order to escape the limitations it sometimes burdens me with. So, the question: What if your gear was suddenly… gone? I’ve been dealing with homeowner’s insurance this [...]
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