Feature Story
Penka Kouneva Studios proudly presents TWO MASTER CLASSES
Designed for early-career media composers, orchestrators, composer assistants, interns, recent graduates, and all interested
Opinion
Bennett Lincoff’s Comments on Music Licensing
Bennett Lincoff’s comments to the US Copyright office on a new system of music licensing
Composer Profile
Interview with Lorne Balfe
Making equations and icons of history come to musical life with “Genius” and “Churchill”
Industry Spotlight
Interview with Geoff Zanelli
Captaining his own “Pirates” ship into The Devil’s Triangle for “Dead Men Tell No Tales”
Scoring Sessions
Interview with Rupert Gregson-Williams
Scoring with strength and heart for DC’s Amazonian Avenger with the epic music origin story of “Wonder Woman”
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
Auganizer
Every once in a while, some clever people come up with a solution to an issue that the DAW developers simply have not addressed
Tech Review
On The Score
Audio: Interview with Brian Tyler and Alex Kurtzman
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer BRIAN TYLER and director ALEX KURTZMAN, who unleash a newly ancient musical world of gods and monsters for THE MUMMY
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
CITY OF GHOSTS (and resilient grit)
From its first ethereal tones, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s (Oscar-nominated CARTEL LAND) CITY OF GHOSTS music score and sound design achieves a hauntingly simultaneous balance of nearly-imperceptible presence and atmospheric poignancy
CD Reviews
May 2017 Soundtrack Picks
Also worth picking up: ALIEN CONVENANT, BABY’S DAY OUT, GET EVEN, THRILLER, ROCKET TO THE MOON, WONDER WOMAN and many more!
Royalty Checks and Reality Checks
Benefits of Joining Overseas Royalty Societies
Mark Holden discusses the financial benefits to composers of joining overseas royalty societies
CineRadio
CineRadio Top-20 for November, 2016
Berlin Station tops the November 2016 Top-20 film music radio airplay chart