Boston based soundware developer SONiVOX has announced the immediate availability of their latest offering, “Anatomy.” The company describes Anatomy as a re-imagination of the human form as an infinite template of sound, offering over eight-hundred playable instruments that transform the human body into a collection of physiological melody and rhythm.
The instruments in the Anatomy package […]

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York today made public a decision in the proceeding to determine reasonable license fees to be paid to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) by AOL (Time Warner Inc.) , RealNetworks Inc., and Yahoo! Inc. for their online performance of […]

Vienna Symphonic Library has announced that it will raise U.S. Dollar prices to customers in North America by approximately 10% on May 15, 2008. The company attributes the price increase to the falling US dollar and efforts by the company to restore equilibrium to international pricing for Vienna products. The list of new U.S. dollar […]

Composers and songwriters around the world are receiving their biggest ever quarterly payment of royalties for the performances of their music in the UK.
PRS, the Performing Right Society, collects and pays royalties to songwriters, composers and music publishers is this week making its first quarter royalty distribution for 2008 totaling £110m (US$216.7m)- the largest ever […]

Composer David Fleming, along with previously touted honoree Bryan Senti, was selected as the 2007 recipient of the 19th Annual BMI Foundation Pete Carpenter Fellowship. BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson originally announced the winners in May 2007, but due to the recent writers’ strike, Fleming’s visit and award presentation was postponed until this year. […]

David Newman is doing the original score for Donald Petrie’s new comedy, My Life in Ruins, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Nia Vardalos. Newman previously scored Petrie’s 2003 comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and his recent filmography is dominated by films in this genre: Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Norbit, Monster-in-Law. My Life […]

Alex Wurman is doing the music for comedy Four Christmases, featuring an impressive cast including Reese Witherspoon, Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Kristin Chenoweth, Mary Steenburgen and Sissy Spacek. Seth Gordon (The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters) directs from a script about a couple who struggle to visit all four of their […]

Gabriel Yared will continue his working relationship with Swedish director Mikael Håfström, for whom he scored 1408 last year. His new film is entitled Shanghai, is set during WW2 and revolves around an American who travels to Shanghai following the death of a good friend.
Hossein Amini (The Four Feathers) has written the screenplay and the […]

British composer Christian Henson (Severance, Chasing Liberty, It’s a Boy Girl Thing), is currently finishing work on his score for The Secret of Moonacre, a fantasy family movie based on Elizabeth Goudge’s novel. Hungarian filmmaker Gabor Csupo (Bridge to Terabithia) directs and the cast includes Ioan Gruffudd, Tim Curry, Dakota Blue Richards and Natascha McElhone. […]

Marco Beltrami has scored Amusement, the upcoming horror film directed by John Simpson (Freeze Frame). Beltrami replaced Debbie Wiseman as the composer on the film after she had to withdraw due to conflicting schedules. Amusement is a classic stalker thriller, to be released by Picturehouse Entertainment and New Line Cinema in September. Stars include Jessica […]