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
Industry Spotlight
Interview with Daniel Pemberton
Bringing a new musical spell to Thra with “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance”
Scoring Sessions
Interview with Graham Reynolds and Richard Linklater
A quirky composer-director collaboration finds a new direction at the bottom of the world by asking, “Where’d You Go Bernadette?”
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 Tyler Bates
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews TYLER BATES who brings a rocking, fast and furious musical attitude to the kick-ass action of HOBBS & SHAW
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
August Soundtrack Picks
PLANET OF THE APES: ORIGINAL FILM SERIES SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION is the top soundtrack to own for August, 2019
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