Film Music Magazine

Feature Story

BMI to Honor Cliff Martinez with Richard Kirk Award at 2013 BMI Film & Television Awards

BMI will present the Richard Kirk Award for outstanding career achievement to prolific composer Cliff Martinez at the Company’s 2013 Film & Television Awards. The annual ceremony will be held Wednesday, May 15, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills

Opinion

Music Libraries: From Last Resort to Power Players

Black Toast Music’s Bob Mair looks at the business and artistic evolution of music libraries and their role in the music business today

Composer Profile

Interview with Brian Reitzell

Scoring inside the mind of serial killers for the television couch trip of “Hannibal”

Industry Spotlight

Interview With Steven Allen Fox

The conductor of the Golden State Pops Orchestra talks about bringing film music to concert life as he prepares to celebrate Varese Sarabande Records’ 35th anniversary

Scoring Sessions

Interview with Michael Giacchino

Boldly piloting the Enterprise “Into Darkness” for his second scoring trip with cinematic Classic Trek

Final Note

College Film Scoring Programs: Selling The Dream vs. Disclosing Reality

Mark Northam looks at college film scoring programs and how realistic they are about the business

Technology

The Empire Strikes Back!

With all the DAW zealots out here in the tech universe proclaiming their DAW of choice as the best, there is simply no denying that in the professional world of film and TV composers, engineers, and post production houses, ProTools has always been the industry standard

Tech Review

Professional Orchestration Review: Vienna Dimension Violins

Peter Alexander reviews Vienna Dimension Violins

On The Score

Audio: On the Score with Brian Tyler

Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer BRIAN TYLER, who blasts off into comic book action with his first superhero score for IRON MAN 3

Chart Doctor

Orchestration: The Devil Is In The Details, Part 2

Ron Hess discusses how you’ll never achieve the Holy Grail of a perfect sight reading if your notation doesn’t tell each musician at a glance how it’s supposed to sound

Music Supervision

Sundance 2013 WIKILEAKS Communique

Film Music Magazine’s Bureau Chief, Michael Rogers and videocolumnist Leslie Harlow had the honor of interviewing Sundance 2012 Documentary Premiere feature, WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS’ composer, Will Bates