The Soundiron/SCOREcast Mercury Symphonic Boychoir Extravaganza
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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 →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 →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 →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.
Read More →To Be Busy or To Not Be Busy
Being busy creates demand for your work. As humans, we subconsciously see what everyone else is getting and we want that, too. Ultimately, you want to create demand for yourself and your music, and perhaps the simple act of being a busy composer, regardless of what you are busy with… will do that for you. Or will it?
Read More →Caveats of Convenience—Pt. 2
Part 2 of Deane’s provoking series on “lazy writing”.
Read More →Taking Time Off
I offer the following provocation for your consideration: Composers should never take holidays. Is this over the line? Too much bravado with too little balance? Or is every day a holiday when you love what you do (cheesy as it sounds)? Should we always be on the lookout for ways to improve and enrich ourselves as [...]
Read More →Comfort is Key
Having worked along side composers like Hans Zimmer, Graeme Revell, and more recently Steve Jablonski, Rupert Gregson-Williams, and SCOREcast founder Deane Ogden, I’ve gleaned much by watching how the big boys do it. One thing I’ve noticed about the really successful composers — They are all healthy. Hans Zimmer rarely gets sick. If he does, [...]
Read More →You Need Help… Or Do You?
Composing for picture is a team sport. The first question you have to ask yourself is “Is NOW really the right time for me to hire an assistant?” Hiring an assistant, however, is a process that you should take careful approach to. Here are some things to keep in mind.
Read More →Phases of the Game (the Quiz)
A beginning is a delicate time… or so I’ve heard. So I want to begin my column here on SCOREcast with what I’m going to try to cover—which is nearly everything—and a few words about my plan of attack. I like to work “big to small.” In other words, I try to start with the [...]
Read More →The Balance of The Byrds
My passion to create music for film drives me. I am still a university student, and therefore am learning the essentials, but the real valuable lessons I have learned about this business have not been from lectures and exercises in harmonic theory. The most important things I’ve learned about building and maintaining a career as [...]
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