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 →CineBrass Core and Pro – A Retrospective
With Cinebrass Core and Pro, Cinesamples introduced a well-thought out brass library to market, giving composers some much-needed ammunition for their daily work. SCOREcast’s Guy Rowland look back at these two libraries and gives you the scoop about what they can do for you.
Read More →SCOREcast 28: Richard Bellis
Emmy Award-winning composer Richard Bellis hangs out with SCOREcast for an in-depth look at the state of the film music business.
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 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!
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.
Read More →Bruce Broughton: A Response from the AMCL
Bruce Broughton responds to Jai Meghan’s undie-bunching critique of the AMCL.
Read More →Are You “Pro”, Union?
Groucho Marx famously said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.” I tend to agree with that sentiment, and it’s a good thing I do… because I don’t think that the AMCL wants me very much at all.
Although the actions of the AMCL Steering Committee—the eleven men who have taken it upon themselves to spearhead the effort to unionize composers in Los Angeles under the Teamsters Local 399 banner—have run a somewhat confusing gamut from ill-prepared to scatter-brained to misinformed to moderately victorious, one thing is particularly clear: The AMCL and the Teamsters Union have zero intentions of unionizing ALL composers. They only want the “working ones”. If you are like me, you want to know “Why?”. Let’s talk it through and see if we can come to any conclusions…
Read More →Composers Unionization: New Goals, New Focus
Tuesday night, April 19, 2010, the Association of Media Composers and Lyricists’ (AMCL) presented their second public meeting concerning the effort to unionize composers and lyricists under the umbrella of the Teamsters Local 399.
Read More →Composer Unionization: AMCL Announces Organizing Meeting in Los Angeles
The Association of Media Composers and Lyricists (AMCL) has announced its next organizing meeting on April 19, 2010, to update composers and lyricists on its progress in regards to unionizing the group under the Teamsters 399 banner. The message, sent via email to its mailing list members, also reflects last week’s resignation of the group’s founder, Alan [...]
Read More →Alan Elliott Resigns from AMCL Union Organizing Committee
This morning, a mass email went out to the mailing list of the Association of Composers and Lyricists announcing that the group’s founder, Alan Elliott, would be resigning from their organizing committee effective April 1. The email also denotes that a few more participants have joined the Organizing Committee, namely composers Ray Colcord (a past [...]
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