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.

SCOREcast’s 5th Anniversary

“I’m just gettin’ warmed up.” — Col. Frank Slade

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.

SCOREcast 30: The Gloves Come Off

So many issues, so few bullets.

SCOREcast 29: Christopher Lennertz

Fresh off Universal’s animated “Hop!”, Christopher Lennertz stops by SCOREcast for a lengthy chat on how he juggles features, television, and video games.

SCOREcast 27: The Long Winter

Deane Ogden and Brian Ralston co-host an edition that is so crammed with new goodies you’ll forget all about the fact that we’ve been in hiding for 10 months!

SCOREcast 3.0: All Good Things Must Come to an End

Nothing lasts forever. It’s time to face the end of an era. Much, much more after the jump…

ANNOUNCEMENT: SCO Podcast Issues

Hello, SCOREcasters! Along with the amazing things that have come along with the exponential growth of the SCOREcast community over the last year, a small handful of “growing pains” have reared their ugly heads — an example being several truncated past podcast episodes at iTunes. This problem is due to the SCOREcast server at Gcast (where we’ve posted our podcast since birth) becoming too overloaded with traffic. Simply put, Gcast never anticipated the major popularity of several of their podcast clients, including us, and so they have been forced to start shutting things off starting February 1st. While we have been talking with them and they are leaving our podcast hosting intact until we choose…

CONTEST UPDATE: 6 Days Left to Create the New SCOREcast Podcast Theme

On January 27th, when we challenged the SCOREcast community to write the new SCOREcast Podcast Theme, we expected big results, but we never expected this: 63 entries, and counting! The contest isn’t over yet, but time is running out! There are still 6 days for you to get your entries in and win a Tonehammer Sampling package worth almost $200! Here is what you need to do: THE CHALLENGEWrite an amazing one minute piece of music, in a genre that you feel best encapsulates SCOREcast, make an .mp3 of your cue, and then email us the link to editor at scorecastonline dot com. If you do not have a website to upload your cue to…

SCOREcast 26: Getting the Gig

For our first show of 2010, recording engineer, composer, and SCOREcast contributing editor Randy Knaub fills in at the co-hosting chair for Lee Sanders. Deane and Randy give their Top Gear picks from their trip to the 2010 Winter NAMM Show, and follow up on January’s “Getting the Gig” discussions with their own insights. They also give us a sneak preview of what’s to come in February — a focus on “Competition” during annual awards season.

CONTEST: Create the new SCOREcast Podcast theme

What’s a killer film composing podcast without a killer film scoring podcast theme? SCO, that’s what! To remedy the situation, we are calling on our faithful SCOREcast listeners to come up with the perfect SCOREcast Podcast Theme! Here’s your challenge: Write an amazing one minute piece of music, in a genre that you feel best encapsulates SCOREcast, make an .mp3 of your cue, and then send us the link to it here. If you do not have a website to upload your cue to in order to send a link, you may send the .mp3 file to the same address. (For a complete list of cue entry requirements, see below) Your reward? Besides bragging rights…

SCOREcast 25: Bruce Broughton

It’s SCOREcast’s Silver Anniversary, and we are celebrating BIG!

In our 25th episode, Deane and Lee visit with ten-time Emmy Award-winning composer Bruce Broughton about the current union discussions and his role in the newly formed ad-hoc group, the Association of Media Composers and Lyricists (AMCL).

Much, much more after the jump…