Feature Story
Composing for the Screen 2019: A Film Scoring Mentorship Program – Apply Now!
Sponsored by BMI and directed by composer Rick Baitz, this NYC-based program selects a small number of emerging film composers and provides a series of workshops, followed by continued consultation and development
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 Colin Stetson
Scoring into the mouth of cosmic madness to conjure a Lovecraftian miasma for “Color out of Space”
Industry Spotlight
Interview with Enis Rotthoff
Shooting a beat to kill for with “Guns Akimbo”
Scoring Sessions
Interview with Jeff Russo
Scoring intimately on his Star Trek voyages by going back to The Next Generation’s “Picard”
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 Thomas Newman
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer THOMAS NEWMAN, whose music ventures through the horrors and heroism of WW1’s front lines in 1917
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
CD Review: FEBRUARY 2020
DOLORES CLAIBORNE: THE DELUXE EDITION is the top soundtrack to own for FEBRUARY 2020
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